The BC Conservatives now have a narrow lead ahead of the BC NDP, according to a new poll released on Thursday.
Leger’s latest B.C. Pulse Check shows the BC Conservatives leading with 45 per cent of decided voters, followed by the BC NDP at 41 per cent and the BC Greens at 8 per cent.
This is the first time the BC Conservatives hold a narrow lead over the BC NDP since the last provincial election.
Leger states that this points to a more competitive provincial landscape following Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s recent election as the new leader for the BC Conservatives.
Seventy-two per cent of respondents said that they had heard that the BC Conservative Party had a new leader, but only 49 per cent knew that Findlay had won when they were polled two days later.
Only 26 per cent said they were very or somewhat familiar with her, 28 per cent had heard the name only and 43 per cent had never heard of her before the survey.
Among the most concerning issues facing British Columbians, housing costs and affordability remain the top concern, the poll found.
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Health care comes a close second, with the economy gaining ground as an issue for residents.
Conservative voters are more likely to prioritize the economy, taxes, deficits and crime and public safety, while NDP voters are more likely to mention health care and housing costs.
Eby and Findlay are close on people’s preferred premier, with 30 per cent choosing Eby and 27 per cent choosing Findlay.
Thirteen per cent said none of them, and 19 per cent are not sure.
On Tuesday morning, Eby was asked about the possibility of a provincial byelection to give Findlay the chance to hold a seat in the legislature.
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“I don’t know what Ms. Findlay’s plans are as the new leader of the Conservative Party or if any Conservative candidate is planning on stepping aside so that she can run,” Eby said.
“I’ll stay tuned to see what the plan is. I’ll say that from my perspective, the job that she’s applying for right now looks a lot more like MAGA regional manager than the premier of British Columbia. But I’ll stay tuned and hear what her plans are.”
Speaking with Global News on Monday, Findlay said she thinks it is ridiculous to be branded MAGA.
“They are the extremists,” she said.
“They’re the ideologues. They’re the ones who would rather invest the taxpayer dime on ideology than prosperity for our citizens… I think it’s ridiculous, and I don’t think people buy it.”
And so did Poillievre over the Liberals two months before last election. How did that work out?
High social spending and constrained revenue growth, B.C. government relies very heavily on taxation. Taxes consistently make up the single largest share of provincial revenue, providing the primary funding for critical services like healthcare, education, and infrastructure. It appears this perhaps singles out an extremely poor economy.
I would take a bag of dirt over the NDP. Worst provincial government in the history of BC.
BRUTALLY BAD
HORRIBLE
CRIMINALLY INCOMPETENT
A RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE
This happens every time there’s an election in BC now. The Conservatives say they’re going to win before the elections even happen and then they lose
Hahahaha wow the 5 percent of the population that actually responds to polls chose Conservative. Too funny 🤣
Premier Eby’s government is doing so many good things in housing and health care that people don’t know about. Why? Because the Premier and the NDP spend too much time attacking the Conservatives on culture war issues and not enough time showing the contrasts between the good work they are doing and the bad policies of the Conservatives like cutting taxes for the wealthy and cutting services people depend on that will make life harder for people.
Hopefully the momentum builds, the NDP have almost bankrupted this province, thousands of people are fleeing to Alberta and David Eby is completely out of touch with reality!
It doesn’t matter who leads the party, the party’s agenda remains the same. The Liberal party was criminal support and cutting health care, the NDP’s agenda is spend and grab and the Conservative agenda will be cut and claw impoverishing BC tremendously. There is nobody qualified to govern this province so you have to decide which agenda of incompetence you want to elect
They’ll have one helluva disaster to deal with. 😒
surprised people even vote for the NDP anymore, bloody useless
the skinny rich kid can go the way pierre and justin trudeau to the trash bin
Good. Time to get rid of the useless NDP communists. Hopefully a bunch of their supporters leave the province or shoot themselves.
All I can say is F*CK EBY! Get out you pathetic bum!!
Explains why Eby is shoveling out the Progressive Liberal Propaganda Mantra.
He is panicking knowing his time of disastrous leadership is done.
I mean, yeah, very few other good options exist..
What the NDP did with the property tax deferment interest rate as a senior i will not vote NDP.
I was really hoping for Caroline to win. That said I was OK with Kerry right up until her acceptance speech mentioning god. Religion has no place in politics and to bring it up, Might have to vote Dallas Brodie and One BC.
Lets go KLF