Riding profile

Powell River-Sunshine Coast

Provincial riding — BC · Vancouver Island & Coast

The question

Powell River-Sunshine Coast: a safe seat for the NDP?

Current forecast

NDP

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
10.9
P(close race)
1%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • NDP 44.9%
  • Con 33.9%
  • GP 16.1%
  • OneBC 2.8%
  • CentreBC 1.9%

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. Surrey-FleetwoodNDP58 %2.0 pt margin
  2. Cowichan ValleyCon54 %2.0 pt margin
  3. Vancouver-LangaraCon62 %2.1 pt margin

In context

How this riding stacks up

NDP Con GP OneBC
HerePowell River-Sunshine Coast 44.9%33.9%16.1%2.8%
Provincial averageBritish Columbia 39.5% +5.3 42.4% −8.5 9.9% +6.2 3.4% −0.6

Provincial averages computed across the 93 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Editorial read

Powell River-Sunshine Coast, a mixed riding in British Columbia, elected a member with the NDP in the previous cycle, with a 14-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the NDP ahead at 45% vote share, against 34% for the Conservatives, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Randene Neill

Sits with NDP

Parliament
43th

Previous election · 2024

Won by
NDP
Margin
13.9 pts
Turnout
66.3%
Margin shift vs current projection
-3.0 pts

Detailed result · BC 2024

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Randene Neill Elected NDP — 49.6 —
Chris Moore Con — 35.7 —
Chris Hergesheimer GP — 13.5 —
Greg Reid OTH — 1.2 —
Last model run
Cycle
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