Right after we finished recording our last episodes for 2018, Elections BC generously released the results of the electoral reform referendum showing that British Columbians had chosen first past the post over any of the proportional representation systems on offer by 61% to 39%.
While Scott is sick this week, Ian was able to speak to Too Close To Call’s Bryan Breguet (@2CloseToCall) about the results and why the polls – which all predicted a very close result – were so dramatically wrong.
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Links
- Bryan’s referendum post-mortem
- The official results
- An interactive map of the results by @repdonsman456 (and credit for the ep image)
- Angus Reid exit poll
- ResearchCo exit poll
