Welcome to Vancity Buzz’s Election 2015 coverage for Metro Vancouver. Refresh this post on October 19 for up-to-date information for the Burnaby South riding.

ELECTS KENNEDY STEWART, NDP

The riding

The redistributed riding combines parts of the old Burnaby-Douglas and Burnaby-New Westminster ridings into a new district, and appears to be an NDP stronghold.

Here is a map of the district:

Image: Elections Canada

Results

• Conservative: Grace Seear 12,441/27.1%
• NDP: Kennedy Stewart ELECTED 16,094/35.1% 
• Liberal: Adam Pankratz 15,547/33.9%
• Green: Wyatt Tessari 1,306/2.8%
• Libertarian: Liz Jauague 498/1.1%

9:05 p.m. PST

• Burnaby South is super tight at the moment with Liberals at 35.2 per cent of the vote and NDP at 33.4 per cent

8:38 p.m. PST

• Extremely close race so far between Liberals and NDP with just a few hundred ballots between them

8:11 p.m. PST

• 5/198 polls reporting a Liberal lead