Poll: Liberals lose support, Conservatives see gains in Vancouver

As Canada approaches election day on April 28, it seems preferences are shifting slightly in Vancouver.

At the beginning of the campaign, on March 23, 225, V.I.A. released a poll that showed the Liberal Party of Canada had a substantial lead in Vancouver, with more than 60 per cent of respondents. At the same time, the Conservative Party of Canada sat in a distant second, with just over 22 per cent of the poll.

Now, at the midpoint of the campaign, the positions are the same, but the Conservatives gained ground on the Liberals.

V.I.A.'s most recent poll, done over the first two weeks of the official campaign, shows the Liberals' lead in Vancouver shrank.

While still ahead by more than 25 per cent, the party of Prime Minister Mark Carney slipped to 54.6 per cent of the local vote and 51 per cent of all V.I.A. readers.

At the same time, the Conservatives gained, moving to almost 29 per cent of the local vote and nearly 34 per cent of the overall vote.

Locally, that's a gain of almost 13 per cent for the Conservatives.

Meanwhile, the other parties are polling about the same. The NDP dropped from 10.76 per cent to 9.26 per cent locally, which is a 1.5 per cent loss. The Greens likely picked some of that up, gaining about one per cent to move from 2.6 to 3.4 per cent.

This election, residents of the city of Vancouver live in seven different federal ridings after borders were redrawn a couple of years ago. Two of the ridings include parts of other municipalities: Richmond Centre-Marpole and Vancouver Fraserview-South Burnaby.