It was an election with an outcome that few people expected, as the Liberals managed a majority government despite being far behind the NDP in the polls a month before voting day.
Here's what you had to say about it.
April Lee Anne Sandford
my thoughts are that more people need to use their right to vote and stop being so bloody lazy and just letting things happen. Otherwise we may as well just have people appointed to rule us like other countries.
Ryan Schierling
well clearly not enough people feel strong enough to vote for the NDP. The people have spoken. We don't need businesses to collapse on us when they start taxing the hell out of them, leaving us with no jobs. Thank you very much. The NDP does one hell of a job rallying people who want things done for them and feel they are owed everything. They would have buried the province like they did 12 years ago and we have been doing a pretty damn good job getting it back together. YOU'RE WELCOME.
Reynold Nugter
My thoughts are, that after using my right to vote for 44 years, why bother any more? People will vote Liberals in even if they run monkeys for candidates. And, it totally doesn't matter what their previous record was. All you have to do is run down your opponents. As a matter of fact, I think we should do away with elections, and just annoint the Liberals for life. That should do it.
April Lee Anne Sandford
the people did NOT speak though.. only a minority did. Many just sat on their arses eating bon bons and watching things like honey boo-boo i'm guessing.
Candace Koch
NDP voters were too lazy to come out I guess. Thought they had it in the bag. Very happy with the results, yay for jobs!
Reynold Nugter
Lol! Yeah, the employment market in Abbotsford has just been great under the Liberals, hasn't it?
April Lee Anne Sandford
lol not all of them were lazy, I just don't think the numbers accurately reflect what the people feel. IF more came out.. AND if the people at the polling station at least LOOKED at my ID instead of just taking my word on who i am.. THEN I'd believe it. Things were better in the 90's btw. More jobs and better chances for education as well.
Rhiannyn Tribaleyez
Grahame my thoughts..... well, i wonder which countries are accepting refugees?
Ryan Schierling
The people who dont vote shouldnt because they have no idea and/or don't care about what is going on. So how fair and accurate is it to persuade people who have no clue, to vote for your guy. Not cool at all. Not everyone should vote.
Reynold Nugter
In Abbotsford-South, if you take van Dongen's votes and add them to the NDP, it would have been a different story. That's not to say that's the way it would have gone, but it split the vote. Just like in other ridings where the Greens took votes from NDP. The Greens were not a factor here.
April Lee Anne Sandford
Obviously not everyone who voted is smart enough to vote either then hahaha
Candace Koch
The recession was merely a tiny bump, our housing market stayed strong , most middle class folks (tradespeople) I know stayed employed. Because of this the Libs got my vote. They worked for our young family. I don't expect handouts, we work hard for the food on the table. I think society is WAY too entitled.
April Lee Anne Sandford
I don't expect handouts either, never have, but I won't vote for someone who only seems to know how to lie and cheat. btw the vote only changed when Christy started promising handouts in these past couple of weeks
Karen Hoekstra Johnson
You nailed that one on the head @Candace Koch! The entitled attitude is getting old.
Janet Pedersen
Sorry but they ALL lie and cheat!! If you do not reconize the reality of political behavior then best to stop commentating...if you seriously cannot say that we stayed strong in the global recession then you are not a realist and just a complainer...and no the votes changed when people realized we wanted a strong economy...I did not vote for liberals but I can reconize some good in all and bad as well. We have to stop complaining and start with local goverment. That is who you voted for... I never heard (i must have missed it) what the NDP was going to do to better our jobs and economy for now or future? I guess that was their mistake. Everyone I know did not hear really what their future plans were... Maybe you guys know what they had planned but their downfall was getting the message out
Rick MacDonald
Actually the people that do not vote had NOTHING to do with this...the people that did vote have chosen the liberals and even though you may think they were wrong and you did not like the liberals campaign the fact is they were elected period....
Johannes Klawitter
It was quite interesting to follow the election results. It leaves me with one Question. First all the Sportswriters said that the Sharks were the best match for the Canucks, then all the Newswriters predicted the NDP would win this election. How are these People getting paid for what they do?
Reynold Nugter
The Liberal party has decided to run these candidates for the next election, because they were concerned about the economy. Their thinking was that it wouldn't matter who they had, with an added bonus that they would work for peanuts.
Online comments
- Rob Ironside Have always believed that polls are for "losers"and not much more than a single "spin tactic", the pollsters for this campaign bare out my beliefs.Not a fan of Christy Clark going in, and not necesarily post election, I do now believe that the Liberal "W" can and should be attributed to Christy Clark, pure and simple. Also to BCNDP Leader Adrian Dix and his war-room, ESPECIALLY one Brian Topp, you BLEW IT! Like the Leafs up 4-1 late in the third, you BLEW IT! Not that you ever had me during the campaign but your seemingly neverending "Dear" e-mails you sent my way(no doubt countless others) demonstrated to me your complete and total "disconnect".with the electorate Next time, maybe? try putting name to e-mail, although my guess is for both Mr. Dix and Mr. Topp....well lets put it this way, Alain Vigneault and Mike Gillis likely have more chance to survive!
- Rolf SpaetiI vote for James Inglis!Marlies BartelsHorrified, saddened, sickened are the first 3 words that come to mind. Ignorance and apathy the next ones. How hard is it to have taken the 2013 questionnaire to see if personal values actually fell in lines with the LIEberals? So what are the excuses for re-electing a bunch of liars who have raised our taxes, and blamed all that deficit on what they took over from the NDP in the 1990s. PLEASE, give me a break. If anyone took the time to read the realities and who put us into the mess we are in, it was not the NDP. Fact after fact was written about for the last few months in the newspapers. BOTH of whom are notoriously biased AGAINST the NDP. Yet even they refuted the lieberals claims. ANY person that didn't vote, well the unemployment, lack of housing lack of jobs, you brought another 4 years of this on yourselves in my opinion.
- On the plus side it looks like Ms Clark will cause a by-election so you could use your political skills to run against her. Who says there are no second chances?
- Judy WengerI am not surprised about the Liberal elected in Abbotsford. Here the majority of the people keep voting the same. The Bible Belt of BC.James InglisWhy do we keep hearing people go on about "the bible belt of BC" like it is some sort of insult? The Sikh residents of Abbotsford are reported as being close to 17% of the population. There are Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and yes even Christians, but if we believe what is reported most people in the Valley don't even consider themselves to be members of an organized religion, so the "bible belt" designation seems even more doubtful. As to Abbotsford electing Liberals, perhaps you hadn't noticed, but BC voters (rightly or wrongly) elected a Liberal majority or perhaps the "bible belts" power reaches further than just the Fraser Valley.Judy WengerThere's more churches per capita in Abbotsford then any other city in BC. That makes it a bible belt community.James Inglis"Abbotsford leads the country with the highest proportion of people of South Asian origin per capita and is the third most ethnically diverse city in Canada, after Toronto and Vancouver."
- James InglisI voted for Plecas because I think he will do a great job for Abbotsford South. I voted for him despite the Liberal party affiliation not because of it. Our system is rightly or wrongly totally party based, but I didn't think any of the parties' deserved to be government this time round. As that choice is clearly beyond my control I focused on what the individual candidates stood for. I won't be surprised to see Plecas as the next Solicitor General. Let's face it he is unlikely to be worse than the last few.