Federal election poll results are expected to start rolling in after 7 p.m. tonight and the Richmond News will be covering results from Richmond Centre and Steveston-Richmond East as well as tracking the national results.
There are five candidates running in both federal ridings.
Polls close in Richmond and across most of B.C. at 7 p.m.
In Richmond Centre, incumbent four-term Conservative MP Alice Wong is running for re-election. She is being challenged by Liberal Wilson Miao, NDP Sandra Nixon, Green candidate Laura Gillanders, and James Hinton, running for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC).
In Steveston-Richmond East, incumbent Conservative MP Kenny Chiu, who was elected for the first time in 2019, is being challenged by Liberal Parm Bains, NDP Jack Trovato, Green candidate Francoise Raunet and PPC candidate Jennifer Singh.
The Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has been widely criticized for calling an election just 19 months after being elected with a minority government, especially given the country is grappling with the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last election, in 2019, the turnout in Steveston-Richmond East was almost 57 per cent. Chiu beat the incumbent MP Joe Peschisolido by 2,747 votes, or about 6.5 per cent of the vote.
In Richmond Centre, the turnout was almost 53 per cent with Wong re-winning her seat with 49 per cent of the vote. The Liberal candidate Steven Kou got almost 8,000 votes fewer than Wong (about 35 per cent of all votes cast).
In both ridings, the NDP garnered about 15 per cent of the vote.
Stay tuned to Richmond-News.com for election coverage starting after 7 p.m.
