This morning on their Facebook page,
Integrity BC posted the following comment:
In 2010, both Calgary and Toronto had voter turnout of over 50 per cent in their municipal elections. We took a look at some of the turnouts in Saturday's local elections: Abbotsford (39.24%), Esquimalt (18%), Fernie (41.5%), Kamloops (29.76%), Nanaimo (27.17%), Prince George (28.5%), Saanich (25.35%), Tumbler Ridge (30.17%), Vancouver (34.57%), Victoria (26.35%) and West Vancouver (24.53%). These turnouts point to a serious malaise and disengagement in BC's democratic system.
GUESS WHAT? That brief short note
doesn’t even come close to showing how pathetic and abysmal the voting habits
of British Columbian’s are becoming.
The WORST voter turn-out?
Esquimalt with UNDER 18% (17.99%) of voters turning out … of 12,872 eligible
voters, only a pitiful 2,300 could be bothered to make it to the polling
station to cast a ballot. Running a
close second was Port Coquitlam with a turn-out of just over 18%
