Christy Clark and Liberal team have strong showing in Interior and Cariboo
Christy Clark and and several ministers won their seats in the Interior and Cariboo
The NDP was not able to swing any ridings in the Interior their way in the 2017 provincial election and even lost a seat it gained in 2013.
In the Interior, it was the Liberals who carried the day, including Christy Clark, re-elected in her home riding of Kelowna West.
In the 2013 election, Clark lost her Point Grey seat when her party formed government. Clark took Kelowna West in a byelection later that year, replacing former MLA Ben Stewart in a safe seat.
Former Liberal minister of transportation Todd Stone won his riding of Kamloops-South Thompson and Jackie Tegart came out on top in Fraser-Nicola.
The Liberals kept Kamloops-North Thompson with new candidate Peter Milobar succeeding former health minister Terry Lake.
Kamloops-North Thompson is a bellwether riding, having voted for the victorious party since 1903.
Earlier in the night, Eric Foster took Vernon-Monashee, Dan Ashton took Penticton and Kyllo Gregory took Shuswap for the Liberals. Linda Larson gave the Liberals a victory in the riding of Boundary-Similkameen.
Steve Thomson was re-elected in Kelowna-Mission and Kelowna-Lake Country was won by Liberal MLA Norm Letnick.
In the Cariboo, Liberal Coralee Oakes was re-elected in Cariboo North. Liberal Donna Barnett in Cariboo-Chilcotin was re-elected for the Liberals.
The Interior and Cariboo regions are Liberal strongholds where the NDP hoped to score some key upsets.
But their hopes there were dashed, with the party also losing Columbia River-Revelstoke to the Liberals.