Voters took to the polls across Canada on Sept. 20 - and by mail in the days beforehand - to choose which candidates would represent them in parliament, and help determine which party would form government.
Vancouver's six ridings voted to send four Liberal party and two NDP candidates to Ottawa, of which five were incumbent MPs. The sixth, Liberal Taleeb Noormohamed, took 麻豆传媒映画Granville in a hotly contested vote that found him less than four hundred votes ahead of his nearest opponent, the NDP candidate.
Here's who won in each of Vancouver's six ridings:
- 麻豆传媒映画Centre: Hedy Fry (Liberal)
- 麻豆传媒映画East: Jenny Kwan (NDP)
- 麻豆传媒映画Granville: Taleeb Noormohamed (Liberal)
- 麻豆传媒映画Kingsway: Don Davies (NDP)
- 麻豆传媒映画Quadra: Joyce Murray (Liberal)
- 麻豆传媒映画South: Harjit S. Sajjan (Liberal)
Do Vancouver's voters cast ballots based on the party? Are they voting strategically? Or do they choose whose party best addresses an issue they deem important?
麻豆传媒映画 polled 719 麻豆传媒映画 readers and asked the question: What primary factor determined your vote in the 2021 Canadian federal election?
Though 麻豆传媒映画is ending up sending some long-time MPs back to Ottawa, just 17.10% of poll respondents said they made their choice based on the individual candidates running. Nearly a fifth (19.43%) said they voted based on party.
However, issue or platform-driven voting was the most popular option, with 34.2% of 麻豆传媒映画voters polled indicating that's how they determined who got their vote.
A previous V.I.A. poll found that when it came to key issues in the election that housing and affordability were top concerns.
Of the 400 locals who responded, 33.5% cited housing and affordability as being the top issue.
The second-most pressing issue for 麻豆传媒映画voters according to the V.I.A. poll is environment and climate change, at 23.75% of the vote, with pandemic response and spending third with 20.25% of the vote.
V.I.A. poll: What primary factor determined your vote in the 2021 Canadian federal election?
The poll ran from 9/20/2021 to 9/25/2021. Of the 719 votes, we can determine that 386 are from within the community.
Results are based on an online study of adult 麻豆传媒映画 readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- %, 19 times out of twenty.
麻豆传媒映画 uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
