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Poll result: Extreme weather top of memory for 2021 headlines in Richmond

The heat dome, tornado and floods was voted the most memorable local news headlines of 2021
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The tornado off the coast of YVR in November

Richmond News polled 231 Richmond News readers and asked the question: What Richmond story will you remember the most in 2021?

The poll ran from 12/29/2021 to 1/1/2022. Of the 231 votes, we can determine that 59 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

COVID-19 32.20 % local, 31.60 % total    
Extreme weather events (heat dome, tornado, floods) 47.46 % local, 46.75 % total    
Residential school graves reaction 13.56 % local, 10.39 % total    
Two fatal crashes inside 24 hours 1.69 % local, 0.87 % total    
Federal election 0.00 % local, 1.73 % total    
Evan Dunfee's Olympic bronze 5.08 % local, 5.19 % total    
Arjan Bhullar's MMA world title 0.00 % local, 2.60 % total    
City hall by-election 0.00 % local, 0.87 % total    
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Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 6.44%, 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.