The Unvoted & the geo-demographics of the BC PR referendum results

made this this morning, only posting it now.


comments on the referendum results numbers as known so far, and requests for data /stats as to who voted, and who wanted to vote but couldn't...and how many new voters there were.....

.... and how many actual qualified voters there are - about 4.5 million.. only 1.7 million "took part in" the referendum...of the *registered* voters not ALL voters... I just did a rough calculation given what I could find out/ estimate about the province's electorate, though  I don't have stats on the numbers of foreign residents and I'm not sure they're in the census figures on Wikipedia I sourced...

but it looks to be about 420,000 people who should have been mailed ballots had this been a fair referendum... the growth rate in the population and the citizenry vs. those who have voted before and are "on the voters list"

that's a lot of people, and I've talked to many who are pissed off they couldn't get to vote though wanted to... of the new communities and the young, I mean.... 

that 420,000 is a few ridings' worth of people, and of the generations and the pool of talent we need to bring INTO politics, not idly shut them out.

It's also a fifth of the mailed-out ballots that came in... if I've done those numbers right, but they need honing.. if there's a stats person out there to take this research on, please do and let me know.... 

What I mean by that 420,000 is the evident discrepancy between the voters list and the actual list of citizens qualified to vote... you'd think this wouldn't be hard to find out.... or mentioned.... from an estimate of 4.5 million eligible voters, the reported 1.7 million votes is given as 41.7 percent of the voters list.... the mail-out.

But as a percentage of that 4.5 million, that 1.7 mill is only 37.7%... so where's the other 4%?

All estimates, I'd like some clear figures because in them are important answers.

This video also gets into the delicate geopolitics of  the people of BC standing up for themselves against colonialism and outlines some of the risks... and also of the risks of having the stark dividing line between rich and poor and fashion and skid road hell that is Abbott Street at Hastings.. and about classism in BC including here in Maple Ridge... .bothers me....

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