More than one-in-four registered voters cast ballots in advance poll in Cowichan Valley
Twenty-seven-per-cent of registered voters in the provincial riding of Cowichan Valley cast their ballots during six days of advance voting ending Wednesday.
A total of 12,162 people participated in the advance vote — October 10-13 and October 15-16 — out of 45,001 registered voters in Cowichan Valley.
The 12,162 tally compares with 11,669 advance votes cast in the 2020 provincial election.
The biggest surge in voting this week occurred during the last two days, when 5,415 voters cast their ballots.
BC-wide, 1,001,331 people voted in the advance poll — an all-time record — out of 3,550,017 registered voters (as of October 7).
In other local election news this week, Premier David Eby made a stop in Duncan to bolster support for NDP candidate Debra Toporowski.
Conservative candidate John Koury, in an on-line post, blamed “RADICAL #LANDBACK LEFT WING ANARCHISTS” for vandalizing his election signs.
And readers of The Citizen were greeted with a front-page, wrap-around ad for Cammy Lockwood — evidence the Greens are pushing herd to maintain their seat in Cowichan Valley.
Sonia Furstenau has held Cowichan Valley for the Greens since 2017. This election, she is running in Victoria-Beacon Hill riding.
Five candidates are competing in Cowichan Valley:
Jon Coleman, unaffiliated: https://www.votebcunited.ca/news/jon-coleman-announced-as-bc-united-candidate-for-cowichan-valley/
Eden Haythornthwaite, independent: https://www.cowichansocialist24.ca/
Koury, Conservative Party : https://www.conservativebc.ca/johnkoury
Lockwood, Green Party: https://bcgreens2024.ca/your-candidates/cammy-lockwood/
Toporowski, NDP: https://debratoporowski.bcndp.ca/
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