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I'm going to not create this page until the re-count is finished. It's a less than 10 vote lead and there's a high chance she might not be the final winner. Thus it saves everyone work--Jack Cox (talk) 06:05, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I avoided starting this one for the same reason. In 2013, Steve Kim was initially declared elected in Coquitlam-Maillardville, but the recount flipped the seat to Selina Robinson — but Kim's article had already been created, basically forcing us to undo all of our own work. And even that was a situation where Kim's initial election night margin was wider than this, and the looming potential for a flip wasn't even as obvious from the start as it is here. For the time being, I've created a protected redirect to the riding article, so that if somebody searches for her in the meantime they'll at least land somewhere relevant, and I've edited the MLAs template to denote Leonard as the presumptive winner pending a recount, rather than the "confirmed" winner — we'll obviously get the article in place promptly if she's declared the winner once the official results are finalized, but for the moment the possibility of us having to delete her article, and create a new one about Jim Benninger instead, within seven to ten days is just too high to justify putting this article in place today. While there are a few other recounts in the province as well, they're not nearly as close right now — the probability of a flip occurring in one of those seats isn't zero either, but it's a lot lower than the literal 50-50 tossup that pertains here. Bearcat (talk) 14:36, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
