Nanaimo voters go to polls Monday in four-way by-election barely six months ahead of federal vote GlobeBC
Voters are going to the polls for the third time in eight months in Nanaimo, B.C., with Monday’s by-election contest in the federal riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, which comes just six months before October’s federal election.
Seven candidates are running in the byelection: New Democrat Bob Chamberlin, Jennifer Clarke of the People’s Party of Canada, Liberal Michelle Corfield, Conservative John Hirst, Jakob Letkemann of the National Citizens Alliance, Green Paul Manly and Brian Marlatt of the Progressive Canadian Party.Despite the string of elections in the area, voters don’t appear to be suffering from election fatigue, says David Black, a political communications expert at Victoria’s Royal Roads University.
“There’s something going on in Nanaimo that’s kind of wonderful,” said Black. “Turnout in 2015 was 75 per cent. That typically means the higher the turnout, the less predictable the race, because you have a lot of voters who are not partisan and who may be persuadable.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, Green Leader Elizabeth May, the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh and Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party of Canada have all been in the riding since the by-election call.
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