2015 Federal Election Update

Posted on Aug 19, 2015 by Jen




This also means that if a Conservative candidate were to step away from the Conservative Party’s prohibitionist platform and take a stance in favour of cannabis reform, then we would consider  endorsing that candidate. As it stands now, the Conservatives have set themselves apart as the party of prohibition.


Once Stephen Harper called the election, we officially began phase two of our campaign. We will be sending out information packages to each of our targeted ridings that will include up-to-date candidate information for canvassers to communicate to voters. We’ll also include details on what needs to happen on the ground with volunteers and mark collecting.


We have received questions from many supporters asking about how we were deciding which ridings to target. After much deliberation, we have chosen to target specific swing ridings that match either of the following descriptions:


  1. The riding is weakly held by Conservatives but could be swung towards the Liberals, NDP, or Greens.
  2. The riding is weakly held by the Liberals, NDP, or Greens and is at risk of flipping Conservative


These decisions are based upon voting data from the 2011 federal election as well as current regional polling for British Columbia. We have limited resources as a non-profit organization so we need to use our resources as carefully and strategically as possible. Focusing on swing ridings will help us get the most out of the money that we spend.

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  • do be sure to give little head to past election results and try to find more active current polling data , lots of significant things have happened since then and are continuing to happen , such as the part where bruce hyer left the ndp and eventually joined the greens , previous election result pools show the ndp as holding the lead in the riding still with th greens being at 5% , when in actuality the people were voting for bruce , not for the ndp (as it should be) , which has resulted in that riding being littered with green lawn signs now and very few signs for the other parties as reported by people in that riding and bruce himself….

    another important factor that isn’t taken into account in old voting data is that the conservative base has collapsed , and the greens are seeing a lot of new support from disillusioned ex conservative supporters , and as far as the island is considered the cpc has no chance of obtaining any seats there…..
    commented 2015-08-21 15:13:34 -0700