Tight race between Vancouver’s two front-running mayoral candidates: poll
Posted November 10, 2014 10:21 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Five days out from civic elections, a second poll has found the race could be tight between Vancouver’s two front-running mayoral candidates.
Vision‘s Gregor Robertson has the support of 46 percent of decided voters, and 41 percent plan to vote for the NPA‘s Kirk LaPointe, according to Mario Canseco with Insights West.
“As we get closer to the election, anything can happen. It’s a much closer race than a lot of residents imagined at the start of the race.”
Canseco adds 27 percent of voters haven’t decided who they’ll be supporting, and those votes could make a big difference. “There was this expectation that Meena Wong was going to bring out some of those leftist voters who may have voted for Vision in the past because it was the only option that they could support and now that they have COPE running a mayoral candidate they would do better.”
But he says that’s not the case, finding many of the people who voted for Robertson in the last election are supporting the NPA this time around, and only some are voting for COPE.
Numbers from an internal Vision poll were leaked last week, putting Vision just four points ahead of the NPA.
