India, Oct. 25 -- David Eby called the election. David Eby lost the election. And within hours of the polls closing on Saturday night, David Eby resigned as leader of the party he had led into one of the most catastrophic miscalculations in British Columbia's modern political history.

The British Columbia Conservative Party has toppled the incumbent BC NDP to win a majority government, the party's first since 1928. David Eby, who called an election two years early in hopes his party would win a stronger, fourth term, resigned as premier and NDP leader in his concession speech.

Lorne Doerkson, a former rodeo announcer and newspaper publisher barely known before the campaign, is set to become British Columbia's premier after his Conservat...