Jackie Tegart has been declared the tentative winner in Fraser-Nicola according to projections from The Canadian Press.

With 94 of 94 polls reporting, she got 4,703 votes (42.32 per cent) to the NDP’s Aaron Sumexheltza who got 4,318 votes (38.86 per cent).

Jonah Timms finished in third place with 1,419 votes (12.77 per cent), while independent candidates Dennis Adamson finished fourth with 381 votes (3.43 per cent) with Mike Bhangu coming in fifth place with 292 votes (2.63 per cent).

Elections BC says there were 2,509 requests for mail-in ballots from the Fraser-Nicola riding, which could mean changes in the final result given the 385 vote difference between the Liberal and the NDP candidates.

Mail-in ballots could take as many as three weeks to count with final election results currently expected to come out on Nov. 16. All told, there were another 6,344 people who voted over the seven days of advanced polls between Oct. 15 to Oct. 21.