Incumbent MLA Peter Milobar looks on during a closely contested election in 2020
...closer than the numbers showed on election night, Peter Milobar barely hangs onto to his MLA seat for Kamloops North Thompson by less than 200 votes.
The results are in:
| Peter Milobar (Liberals) | Sadie Hunter (NDP) | Thomas Martin (Greens) | Dennis Giesbrecht | Brandon Russell |
| 9,341 | 9,145 | 2,224 | 1,928 | 145 |
It was closer than the numbers showed on election night, but Peter Milobar hung on through counting of mail-in ballots to secure re-election in Kamloops-North Thompson in the 2020 provincial election.
Final figures from the count of mail-in ballots show the B.C. Liberal candidate with a 196-vote victory over B.C. NDP candidate Sadie Hunter.
Milobar finished with 9,341 votes (41% of the vote), followed by Hunter with 9,145 votes (40% of the vote).
On election day, Oct. 24, a total of 16,600 election day and advance voting ballots had been counted, with Milobar holding a 791-vote lead, pending counting of mail-in ballots.
Elections BC said there remained 6,332 mail-in ballots to consider. As of the final report, 6,187 of those ballots were added to the tallies.
B.C. Green candidate Thomas Martin was third with 2,224 votes (9.8% of the vote), followed by B.C. Conservative candidate Dennis Giesbrecht with 1,928 votes (8.5% of the vote) and Independent Brandon Russell with 149 votes (0.7% of the vote). None of the candidates outside of Milobar and Hunter met the 10 per cent vote threshold to qualify for the $2.50 per vote subsidy.
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Out to Pasture?
In stark contrast to Todd Stone, who won the majority of the popular vote, Milobars victory amounts to a paltry 1.1% of total votes cast.
Rumors are swirling whether or not Milobar has another election in him. A fixture in Kamloops politics, the Milobar name has done well – But can he pull off another victory riding the coat tails of Todd Stone?
