Interim Report on Vote-by-Mail Package Processing

2020 Provincial General Election

As of 11:59 p.m. on October 14, 2020, Elections BC has received an estimated 148,200 returned vote-by-mail packages.
This represents approximately 21% of packages issued to date. An estimated 710,000 registered voters have requested a
vote-by-mail package.
The estimated number of returned packages does not include:
• packages received by Canada Post that are currently in transit to Elections BC for return processing;
• packages dropped off at a district electoral office or voting place.

As voters have until October 24 to return their package and do not need to return their package to their electoral district of
residence, accurate estimates of package returns by electoral district are unavailable at this stage.

After the return deadline has passed on October 24, the estimated number of packages returned will differ from the number
of ballots that will be considered during the final count of absentee ballots. This is because all vote-by-mail packages are
screened for compliance with the Election Act before being accepted for counting. Information on the number of mail-in
votes to be considered at final count will be provided at a later date.

The following table provides the distribution of issued vote-by-mail packages by electoral district. Issued vote-by-mail
packages include those that have been sent to voters and those that are being prepared to be mailed.

Vote-by-mail
Registered voters1
packages issued2

Provincial total 3,485,858 697,768

Totals by electoral district
Abbotsford-Mission 47,043 7,843
Abbotsford South 44,896 6,860
Abbotsford West 39,087 5,043
Boundary-Similkameen 36,593 5,066
Burnaby-Deer Lake 37,220 6,507
Burnaby-Edmonds 40,347 6,914
Burnaby-Lougheed 39,349 8,179
Burnaby North 43,418 9,255
Cariboo-Chilcotin 25,306 2,805
Cariboo North 21,960 1,991
Chilliwack 37,676 5,585
Chilliwack-Kent 43,698 7,385
Columbia River-Revelstoke 26,166 2,909
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain 45,503 9,211
Coquitlam-Maillardville 39,137 7,823
Courtenay-Comox 46,806 11,885
Cowichan Valley 48,879 10,435
Delta North 37,998 6,746
Delta South 37,039 8,442
Esquimalt-Metchosin 41,312 11,905
Fraser-Nicola 26,500 2,434
Kamloops-North Thompson 44,809 5,563
Kamloops-South Thompson 46,345 7,882
Kelowna-Lake Country 53,395 9,844
Kelowna-Mission 50,150 9,268
Kelowna West 53,008 8,732
Kootenay East 32,135 3,170
Kootenay West 33,192 3,996
Langford-Juan de Fuca 47,552 11,821
Langley 44,715 8,542

1
Total registered voters at the close of the general registration period on September 26, 2020. This count does not include
voters registering in conjunction with voting by mail.
2
Count of registered voters who have been issued a vote-by-mail package as of the date and time of this report.
 Interim Report on Vote-by-Mail Package Processing
2020 Provincial General Election

As of 11:59 p.m. on October 14, 2020, Elections BC has received an estimated 148,200 returned vote-by-mail packages.
This represents approximately 21% of packages issued to date. An estimated 710,000 registered voters have requested a
vote-by-mail package.
The estimated number of returned packages does not include:
• packages received by Canada Post that are currently in transit to Elections BC for return processing;
• packages dropped off at a district electoral office or voting place.

As voters have until October 24 to return their package and do not need to return their package to their electoral district of
residence, accurate estimates of package returns by electoral district are unavailable at this stage.

After the return deadline has passed on October 24, the estimated number of packages returned will differ from the number
of ballots that will be considered during the final count of absentee ballots. This is because all vote-by-mail packages are
screened for compliance with the Election Act before being accepted for counting. Information on the number of mail-in
votes to be considered at final count will be provided at a later date.

The following table provides the distribution of issued vote-by-mail packages by electoral district. Issued vote-by-mail
packages include those that have been sent to voters and those that are being prepared to be mailed.

Vote-by-mail
Registered voters1
packages issued2

Provincial total 3,485,858 697,768

Totals by electoral district
Langley East 52,882 11,269
Maple Ridge-Mission 47,402 8,720
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows 45,095 8,708
Mid Island-Pacific Rim 44,869 7,265
Nanaimo 47,798 11,225
Nanaimo-North Cowichan 45,841 9,730
Nechako Lakes 17,418 1,106
Nelson-Creston 29,389 3,904
New Westminster 46,822 11,900
North Coast 15,471 898
North Island 45,121 7,766
North Vancouver-Lonsdale 45,108 10,240
North Vancouver-Seymour 41,788 11,450
Oak Bay-Gordon Head 42,385 15,450
Parksville-Qualicum 48,396 13,889
Peace River North 25,743 1,536
Peace River South 17,944 781
Penticton 48,525 9,534
Port Coquitlam 44,136 9,526
Port Moody-Coquitlam 40,654 10,674
Powell River-Sunshine Coast 41,282 8,105
Prince George-Mackenzie 34,433 4,435
Prince George-Valemount 36,700 4,444
Richmond North Centre 37,190 6,327
Richmond-Queensborough 39,788 6,410
Richmond South Centre 33,522 5,621
Richmond-Steveston 36,844 8,402
Saanich North and the Islands 50,488 15,806
Saanich South 41,697 13,946
Shuswap 46,886 6,235

1
Total registered voters at the close of the general registration period on September 26, 2020. This count does not include
voters registering in conjunction with voting by mail.
2
Count of registered voters who have been issued a vote-by-mail package as of the date and time of this report.
 Interim Report on Vote-by-Mail Package Processing
2020 Provincial General Election

As of 11:59 p.m. on October 14, 2020, Elections BC has received an estimated 148,200 returned vote-by-mail packages.
This represents approximately 21% of packages issued to date. An estimated 710,000 registered voters have requested a
vote-by-mail package.
The estimated number of returned packages does not include:
• packages received by Canada Post that are currently in transit to Elections BC for return processing;
• packages dropped off at a district electoral office or voting place.

As voters have until October 24 to return their package and do not need to return their package to their electoral district of
residence, accurate estimates of package returns by electoral district are unavailable at this stage.

After the return deadline has passed on October 24, the estimated number of packages returned will differ from the number
of ballots that will be considered during the final count of absentee ballots. This is because all vote-by-mail packages are
screened for compliance with the Election Act before being accepted for counting. Information on the number of mail-in
votes to be considered at final count will be provided at a later date.

The following table provides the distribution of issued vote-by-mail packages by electoral district. Issued vote-by-mail
packages include those that have been sent to voters and those that are being prepared to be mailed.

Vote-by-mail
Registered voters1
packages issued2

Provincial total 3,485,858 697,768

Totals by electoral district
Skeena 21,262 1,699
Stikine 14,250 1,184
Surrey-Cloverdale 45,193 9,600
Surrey-Fleetwood 36,961 5,709
Surrey-Green Timbers 29,258 3,781
Surrey-Guildford 37,583 5,781
Surrey-Newton 29,660 4,377
Surrey-Panorama 43,314 7,630
Surrey South 52,202 12,283
Surrey-Whalley 38,399 4,886
Surrey-White Rock 44,326 10,905
Vancouver-Fairview 45,460 14,656
Vancouver-False Creek 47,916 12,747
Vancouver-Fraserview 43,160 9,286
Vancouver-Hastings 42,916 9,901
Vancouver-Kensington 41,037 8,949
Vancouver-Kingsway 40,926 7,515
Vancouver-Langara 41,308 9,220
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant 45,267 10,586
Vancouver-Point Grey 40,532 11,880
Vancouver-Quilchena 38,237 10,569
Vancouver-West End 38,356 9,338
Vernon-Monashee 52,479 8,464
Victoria-Beacon Hill 48,772 17,810
Victoria-Swan Lake 40,590 12,585
West Vancouver-Capilano 40,857 9,768
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky 42,786 7,316

1
Total registered voters at the close of the general registration period on September 26, 2020. This count does not include
voters registering in conjunction with voting by mail.
2
Count of registered voters who have been issued a vote-by-mail package as of the date and time of this report.