In just over a month, Canadians are going to the polls to vote on a new federal government.
On March 23, 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Canada's governor general to ask for parliament to be dissolved, triggering an election. Now the campaigning begins.
On April 28, 2025, Canadians will go to the polls, a few months earlier than the previously scheduled election this fall.
Vancouver Is Awesome ran a poll from March 12 to 23, 2025, asking readers about their voting intentions before the campaign. Participants chose between the Liberal Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada, the NDP, the Green Party of Canada, or other options.
While national polls show things are close, it seems locals aren't as divided.
More than half of the people who participated in the poll said they'd vote for the Liberals if there was an election today. Interestingly, the Liberals had an even larger lead when it came to locals, with more than 60 per cent of people in Vancouver choosing the Liberal Party of Canada.
In second place, but a fair distance behind, is the Conservative Party of Canada, with 28 per cent of the overall vote and just 22 per cent of the local vote.
National polls show the two parties are within a couple of percentage points of each other.
The NDP sits in third place, with just 11 per cent of the local vote, which is a bit above how they're polling nationally. In the overall poll they get just under 9 per cent, which is closer to the national average for the NDP.
The Green Party and others poll around three per cent.
Currently, Vancouver has six MPs. Four are part of the federal Liberal party, and two are part of the NPD. Historically, conservative parties haven't done well in the city of Vancouver over the past 30 years.
Since 2000, only two MPs in Vancouver have been part of conservative parties: Wai Young (who represented Vancouver South for one term starting in 2011) and Dave Emerson in Vancouver Kingsway.
Emerson was first elected in 2004 as a Liberal and re-elected in 2006 as a Liberal but crossed the floor to join the Conservative Party from 2006 to 2008.
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 1972 readers and asked the question: If a federal election were held today, which party would you vote for?
The poll ran from 3/12/2025 to 3/23/2025. Of the 1972 votes, we can determine that 688 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.2%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
Correction: This story previously stated that joined the Progressive Conservative Party. He in fact joined its successor, the Conservative Party of Canada.
