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Poll result: Almost half of Richmond News readers "don't care" about political visits

More than 45 per cent of readers who answered the poll said they couldn't care less about political leaders visiting Richmond
Alan Campbell
Alan Campbell
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Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre was in a Richmond pub last weekPhoto submitted

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre was in a Richmond pub last week, so the Richmond News asked readers if they'd like to see more high profile visits from our political leaders,

Richmond News polled 460 Richmond News readers and asked the question: Would you like to see more visits to Richmond from our national political leaders?

The poll ran from 1/26/2023 to 1/30/2023. Of the 460 votes, we can determine that 135 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 28.89 % local, 29.57 % total    
No 24.44 % local, 24.78 % total    
Don't care 46.67 % local, 45.65 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.56%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.