STV Poll: Less than one-fifth of British Columbians think B.C. should keep its First Past the Post electoral system

See here for the results of a poll on STV done by Nordic Research group (hat tip Burkean Canuck). The results show that 26% of people surveyed would vote 'yes' and 17% would vote no. Clearly, that leaves a large undecided block (57%). If the undecided block were to vote the same as the decided block, the end result would be 60.5% 'yes' and 39.5% 'no' and STV would pass.

I don't know much about the Nordic Research folks but it's clear they were hoping for a bigger 'No' vote based on how hard they try to spin the results. Their lead is "Less than one-third of British Columbians think that BC should adopt the BC-STV electoral system according to a poll conducted by Nordic Research Group." Of course, that statement is equally valid with my title to this post, and both are an absurd way to objectively characterize the results. In fact, bs like this makes one think that there should be some kind of professional standards one has to meet to be allowed to do poll write-ups.

Anyway, what the poll shows (besides there being more than 3 'yes' voters for every 2 'no' voters), consistent with an earlier Ipsos-Reid poll, is that there's a long way to go in building awareness of the proposed new system, of course if you're here reading this you're likely not one of those uninformed people. But if you are, please visit the links along the right hand side. Or feel free to send me an email. It may be a long time before we get another chance to improve our electoral system.