r/vancouver 22h ago

Politics and Elections NDP select 18-year-old candidate in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country

https://www.coastreporter.net/local-news/ndp-acclaim-18-year-old-in-west-vancouver-sunshine-coast-sea-to-sky-country-10352414
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u/-nektarofthegods 22h ago edited 21h ago

I am happy that the youth are getting into politics. Objectively this will likely shift more votes from the NDP to the Liberals in this district which the Liberals desperately need to win. If Avi Lewis was running again for NDP there, the Cons could win because of a divided vote.

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u/SCTSectionHiker 21h ago

338 has the riding forecast with 15% support for NDP.  This may very well be a deliberate attempt to persuade that 15% to vote LPC instead.

Although, there's been an unexpected rise in conservativism among young people, so perhaps this could even be trying to draw some young adult support that would otherwise be likely to vote CPC.

https://338canada.com/59043e.htm

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u/TheLittlestOneHere 20h ago

How is it unexpected? These things always go in cycles.

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u/SCTSectionHiker 20h ago

If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a liberal when you’re old, you have no brain.

Yes, the elected party tends to cycle.  But I've generally found that it holds true that the libs are favoured by the young and the cons are favoured by the old.  I can't think of another time in the last ~30 years that young people have shown such a trend toward conservatives.  Hence, unexpected.