Voters in B.C. are casting ballots in the provincial election today, in what has been a tight race between the incumbent NDP and the Conservative Party of B.C.
Voting is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Oct. 19, with polling stations in 93 ridings. Both the NDP and Conservatives have candidates in each riding.
A Mainstreet Research survey has the incumbent NDP and the BC Conservatives virtually neck and neck.
Many will have to brave heavy rain to fill in their ballots as Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has issued a rainfall warning for several parts of metro Vancouver.
The storm is expected to ease up in the evening, with more rain forecast for Oct. 22.
More than a million voters were able to escape the rain by voting early. Advanced polls saw a record turnout, with 28 percent of the electorate casting an early ballot.
Elections B.C. said 1,001,331 people cast votes between Oct. 10 and 16, including 222,907 voting on the final day of advanced polls.
The previous record was set during the pandemic in the 2020 election where 19 percent of registered voters (671,231) participated in advance polls.
The B.C. Green Party leader said the weather was evidence the province needed to go in a new direction.
Campaign Promises
The 28-day campaign has seen the NDP promising extensions to medical care financial support and to speed up construction by using modular housing. Eby also said the province’s trial of safe consumption sites had not been a success.
Furstenau promised a Green Party government would work towards opening 93 community health-care centres, expanding the number of drug consumption sites, and improve education on addiction.
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