Vancouver-Granville still too close to call, days after election
Posted September 22, 2021 3:18 pm.
Last Updated September 22, 2021 4:15 pm.
Editor’s note: Elections Canada had initially told NEWS 1130 Liberal candidate Taleeb Noormohamed won the riding against NDP candidate Anjali Appadurai. It now says mail-in ballots are still being counted.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Elections Canada is still counting ballots in the riding of Vancouver-Granville.
Elections Canada has corrected its earlier statement to NEWS 1130 about the results in this tightly contested riding. It now says they are still counting mail-in ballots, and a definite winner is not expected to be declared until Tuesday.
Liberal candidate Taleeb Noormohamed and NDP candidate Anjali Appadurai are in a tight race. At one point Monday night, they were separated by just one vote.
Noormohamed has faced controversy during the election, when NEWS 1130 first reported he bought and sold at least 42 properties in Metro Vancouver within the last 17 years. Of those, 21 homes were bought and sold within a year, in stark contrast to his party’s promise in this year’s federal election to crack down real estate speculation with an anti-flipping tax.
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Noormohamed made $4.9 million in profits on those property sales, before transaction costs are factored in. Housing activists have criticized Noormohamed’s real estate activity as consistent with flipping behaviour.
The seat in Vancouver-Granville was left vacant by Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was first elected as a Liberal in 2015. However, she has sat as an Independent since 2019.
More than 8,000 special ballots were mailed in from this riding this year.
Races in Richmond Centre and Nanaimo-Ladysmith is also yet to be called.
– With files from Lisa Steacy and Martin MacMahon
