Christy Clark and Liberal team have strong showing in Interior and Cariboo

The NDP was not able to swing any ridings in the Interior their way in the 2017 provincial electionand even lost a seat itgained in 2013.

In the Interior, it was the Liberals who carried the day, includingChristy Clark, re-electedin her home riding ofKelownaWest.

In the 2013 election,Clark lost her Point Grey seat whenher party formed government. ClarktookKelownaWest in abyelectionlater that year, replacing former MLABen Stewart in a safe seat.

Former Liberal minister of transportation Todd Stone won his riding ofKamloops-SouthThompsonand JackieTegart came out on top in Fraser-Nicola.

The Liberals keptKamloops-NorthThompsonwith new candidate PeterMilobarsucceeding former health minister Terry Lake.

Kamloops-NorthThompson is a bellwether riding, having voted for the victorious party since 1903.

Earlier in the night,Eric Foster took Vernon-Monashee, Dan Ashtontook Pentictonand Kyllo Gregory took Shuswap for the Liberals. Linda Larsongave the Liberalsa victory in the riding ofBoundary-Similkameen.

Steve Thomson wasre-elected in Kelowna-MissionandKelowna-Lake Country waswon by Liberal MLA Norm Letnick.

In theCariboo, LiberalCoraleeOakeswas re-elected inCaribooNorth.LiberalDonna Barnett inCariboo-Chilcotinwas re-elected for the Liberals.

The Interior and Caribooregionsare Liberal strongholds where the NDP hopedto scoresome key upsets.

But their hopes there were dashed, with the party also losing Columbia River-Revelstoketo the Liberals.