Conservative party wins first election in nearly a century in British Columbia

Straits Times25 October 2026, 11:50 UTCCanada

Oct 25 - The opposition Conservative Party won an election in the Canadian province of British Columbia for the first time in nearly 100 years, promising to ramp up liquefied natural gas production, provisional results showed on Sunday.

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