Harwinder Sandhu (Image Credit: Contributed)

By Pete McIntyre / Vernon Matters

Election 2020

B.C. NDP post upset victory in Vernon-Monashee

Nov 8, 2020 | 1:00 PM

VERNON, B.C. — It’s now official.

NDP candidate Harwinder Sandhu is the new MLA for Vernon-Monashee, the first New Democrat to win the riding in 36 years.

According to the results posted at 12:40 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 8), Sandhu is 424 votes ahead of three term Liberal incumbent Eric Foster.

Going into the final count, Sandhu was trailing Foster by 183 votes, but went on to win after the 8,614 mail-in and absentee ballots were counted over a three day period.

Keli Westgate of the Green Party was third and Kyle Delfing of the BC Conservatives was fourth.

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Lyle MacWilliam won the riding for the NDP in 1984 in a by-election and then lost in the general election two years later to Lyall Hanson of Social Credit.