“We’re attracting voters from across the political spectrum who want politics to be done differently in British Columbia,” Andrew Weaver, the Green Party leader in the province, said in an interview on Wednesday. “People are sick and tired of corporate influence in B.C.”

For now, the Liberals, who despite their name are conservative, will try to form a minority government — the first time the province has had one in 65 years. That could change after absentee ballots and judicial recounts in certain districts are tallied later this month. But Premier Christy Clark, leader of the Liberals, has signaled her willingness to adapt to a new political reality.

“Whatever the outcome is, whether it’s a minority or a majority, I do intend to work across party lines,” she told reporters on Wednesday.

The Liberals, in power in British Columbia since 2001, won the most seats and the popular vote.

But the bitter election provides important lessons about a province hankering for new leadership amid rising costs of living, cuts to education and distrust over the Liberals’ embrace of unlimited political donations, said Hamish Telford, a political-science professor at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

“The Liberals lost a lot of their more liberally inclined voters, particularly around Vancouver,” he said. “Even now that the economy has improved and the books are balanced, there was a narrative that the Liberals had been in power for too long and had grown too comfortable.”