BC Conservatives Inching Closer to Governing NDP in Latest Poll as Fall Election Looms

Published on March 22, 2024

With a B.C. election this fall, a new political poll shows the Conservative Party of British Columbia passing the Opposition BC United Party and closing in on the governing NDP. Nearly a third of B.C. voters (31 percent) said they would vote Conservative if the election were held today, according to a March 21 Mainstreet Research press release. Nearly four out of 10 voters (36 percent) said they would vote to re-elect the NDP. Just over one in 10 (13 percent) would vote BC United, formerly the BC Liberal Party. “This deeper dive in to federal vote intentions in B.C. is consistent with our latest national polls,” Mainstreet president and CEO Quito Maggi said....

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