A poll-by-poll look at the election in the BC South Interior
By Timothy Schafer
It was an election by the numbers as incumbent MP Alex Atamanenko retained his seat in the B.C. Southern Interior riding which includes Nelson and Castlegar.
Atamanenko beat out Rossland Conservative candidate Stephen Hill in the 2011 Federal election May 2, his third win as the NDP candidate in the BC South Interior riding — garnering 52 per cent of the vote over Stephen Hill who got 37.5 per cent.
Green Party candidate Brian Hunt was third at 6.4 per cent and Liberal Shan Lavell was fourth at 3.8 per cent.
Nationwide, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, won a majority government with 39.6 per cent of the vote, taking 53.4 per cent of the seats; whereas the NDP, Liberal and Green Parties received 53.4 per cent of the votes but only 44.5 per cent of the seats.
Attached are the numbers as recorded at each polling station in the BC South Interior riding. Nelson is number six and Castlegar is number three.
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