Aboriginal voter key to 2013 NDP win in Skeena – Terrace Standard

Feb 12, 2014

Being an unrepentant political junkie, I dove into the official May 2013 provincial election numbers released last month by Elections BC with enthusiasm.

What makes these fascinating is they give you not just the total tally for Skeena for the candidates but also break down the votes into very specific areas.

So it is possible to see which way people voted in a group of a dozen or so streets on the Bench, in the Horseshoe and on the Southside.

Don’t worry, I’m not about to get that crazy.

But what I do want to do is look at trends over a longer timeline than the usual comparison between the past election and the one immediately before.

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