Elections BC says the disappearance of an election ballot box means there could be a breach of personal information such as names and addresses of 141 people who voted in the May 14 election.
Chief electoral officer Keith Archer said Friday that Elections BC sent letters to more than 300 addresses in the Vancouver-Langara riding represented by Liberal Moira Stilwell, who was re-elected with more than 52 per cent of the vote.
Archer said the lost ballot box did not impact the outcome of the election result because the votes were already counted.
But he said there are privacy concerns because the box contained a voting book used to count off registered voters and register new voters and that besides names, addresses and signatures, there were driver's licence numbers and birth dates for at least 10 people.
Archer says the Vancouver Police Department and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner have been notified about the missing ballot box.
Stilwell's win was part of a larger, unexpected victory for the Liberal party that defied the pollsters and public opinion to as the party secured 49 seats in the legislature.