The BC Liberals won a minority in the election. They were one seat short of a majority. The BC Liberals then formed a government, and lost a non-confidence vote to the NDP and Greens, who together formed the government with the approval of the lieutenant governor, via a taxpayer-funded "secretariat". The NDP and Greens received a lot of protest votes, and no one fore-saw the awful potential future of these two bozo parties forming a government together, as it was probably too horrific for most people to imagine. But now we are stuck with it. Consequences of voting emotionally rather than logically.
So to my point - the BC Conservatives ran 4 candidates in the election. Why no one knows. All they did was split the vote on the right in 4 ridings. One of these ridings was Comox, where the Liberals lost by 100 votes to a real lunatic NDP candidate. The Conservative candidate got over 2,000 votes, most of which would have gone to the BC Liberals if they hadn't run a candidate. The Liberals would have had a majority, and we would have a government that was intent on getting the pipeline built, without interference or taxpayer dollar wasting court challenges. Elizabeth May would be in hoosgow right now where she belongs.
There were also rumblings that three traditional BC Liberal ridings went NDP this time because the NDP promised to block Uber from coming to BC. Not sure how accurate that info is.