An online survey of decided voters gives the B.C. NDP (45 per cent) a double-digit over the runner-up Conservative Party of B.C. (27 per cent).
Meanwhile, the poll conducted by Research Co. between April 15 and 17 sees B.C. United at 15 per cent and the Green Party of B.C. at 11 per cent.
“Those are fairly strong numbers for a government that is entering its eighth year,” said Nicolas Kenny, a professor of history at Simon Fraser University.
The findings match the results of a poll Research Co. conducted in January. It showed the B.C. NDP with 46 per cent, the provincial Conservatives at 26 per cent, B.C. United at 17 per cent and B.C. Greens at 11 per cent.
The B.C. NDP is the first choice across all three age groups and across all regions in B.C., especially on Vancouver Island (56 per cent) and Metro Vancouver (47 per cent). The race is tighter in Fraser Valley, southern Interior and northern Interior with the NDP leading the Conservatives by one, three and five points respectively.
Almost four out of 10 surveyed British Columbians (37 per cent) consider the related issues of housing, homelessness and poverty the most important issue, followed by health care (21 per cent) and the economy and jobs (18 per cent). Five per cent of surveyed British Columbians consider crime and public safety the most important issue, a figure that may surprise some because recent emphasis on public safety issues within the context of drug decriminalization.
Premier David Eby remains the most popular of the major party leader with an approval rating of 51 per cent, ahead of the B.C. Greens’ Sonia Furstenau (37 per cent), B.C. United’s Kevin Falcon (36 per cent) and the Conservatives’ John Rustad (35 per cent).
It’s a great blessing that BC United and BC Cons are wasting each other’s time by dividing the right-wing voter base. Even the greens, which captures some neoliberals on bicycles. It’s the perfect storm to have a moderate centre-left provincial government that actually gets shit done (especially Ravi Kahlon). Gives me hope that democracy can be functional.
It feels super weird to call an NDP party ‘centre-left’ but at the same time, it is BC.
We can do without the silencing of Surrey voices by Mr Farnworth, though.
No sympathies for Brenda Locke and the stubbornness against the police transition though
Can you imagine what this place will look like in five years with a Rustad government here, Poilievre in Ottawa and Trump in the south?
The first is unlikely, the second is very likely, the third is a toss-up.
All three and I may decide to move back to Japan again. At least the racism there is done politely.
The first is unlikely
Mainstreet British Columbia, April 2024: BC Conservative – 38.9%, BC NDP 36.2%, BC United 15.3%, BC Greens 6.7%
That poll is an absolute outlier, and also did some fuckery with testing BC Liberals vs BC United naming conventions.
It would indicate a 10% voting shift since the last Mainstreet poll a month ago, and there’s nothing that’s happened politically in that period that would cause such a swing. Other pollsters still show the NDP leading by double digits as of a week ago.
I’d rather not.
Individual rights and liberty.
You’re free to emmigrate to Europe.
Why do you feel entitled to force your broken social policies on me and tell me to leave if I don’t like it.
The bullshit about your “individual rights and liberty” is that it’s your liberty and rights - and you don’t mind trampling on the rights of others to implement them. The dissonance that keeps libertarian brand conservatives from understanding how much they’re imposing on others is astounding.
