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VICTORIA — As the results seesawed back and forth and deadline time approached, I found myself grateful for having written columns to cover every eventuality.

Liberals ahead, moving to a majority. New Democrats bounce back, now they are ahead. Liberals back in the lead in the seat count. But nobody with a majority. Greens with the balance of power.

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No wait. Hang on. Oh, never mind, wake me when it is over.

Which might take days … for Elections B.C. won’t get around to counting tens of thousands of absentee ballots until later this month.

Still, while the results sorted themselves out, a few things were clear.

For the first time in 65 years, the province appeared to be headed for a situation where no party had a majority of the seats in the house. Appeared that is.

It remained possible that one party or the other could have a razor thin majority or be in position to govern with the cooperation of the Greens.