The Pollcast: 6 months to go before B.C. goes to the polls
Host Éric Grenier is joined by the CBC's Richard Zussman
The CBC Pollcast, hosted by CBC poll analyst Éric Grenier, explores the world of electoral politics, political polls and the trends they reveal.
The next provincial election in British Columbia is six short months away, and the campaigning has already unofficially begun.
Will British Columbians decide to re-elect Christy Clark's B.C. Liberals, a party that has been in power since 2001? Or will they instead install John Horgan's New Democrats, setting off a possible confrontation with the neighbouring NDP government in Alberta over pipelines?
And will pollsters get redemption after missing the call in 2013?
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The B.C. election will be held on May 9. Polls suggest the race is close. While the New Democrats were leading in the polls by about 16 points at this point in 2012, the latest survey puts the gap between the two parties at just one point.
Clark has a booming economy on her side, but after 15 years in power the B.C. Liberal government is long in the tooth. Horgan still has a low profile, and is challenged from the left by the B.C. Greens, who hold one seat in the legislature and have designs on more.
Richard Zussman, the CBC's legislative reporter in B.C., joins podcast host Éric Grenier to break down the coming election season.
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