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VANCOUVER — The British Columbia New Democrats have a majority government of 47 seats after a recount in the riding of Surrey-Guildford concluded with the party's candidate just 22 votes ahead of his provincial Conservative rival.

SURREY, B.C. — Election officials filed into an industrial building in Surrey, B.C.

British Columbia Premier David Eby's new cabinet will be sworn in on Nov. 18, and it will have to feature a significant number of new ministers after last month's election saw several incumbents defeated while others didn't run.

Premier David Eby is proposing an all-party committee investigate mistakes made during the British Columbia election vote tally, including an uncounted ballot box and unreported votes in three-quarters of the province's 93 ridings.

British Columbia's election agency says it has discovered that a ballot box containing 861 votes wasn't counted in the recent provincial election, as well as other mistakes, including 14 votes going unreported in a crucial riding narrowly won by the

Elections BC finds an uncounted ballot box, prompting a judicial recount; since 2001, four judicial recounts have produced only 19 vote changes out of 98,822 ballots reviewed by a judge.

Industry groups urge fiscal restraint.

In addition to a massive spike in campaign donations following the capitulation of BC United, the BC Conservatives are set to receive nearly $1.7 million in per-vote subsidy, for future operational costs.