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British Columbians are split three ways when it comes to how they will vote in the 2018 fall referendum on electoral reform, according to a new poll.

The poll from the Angus Reid Institute found B.C. residents divided over whether they preferred to keep the current, first-past-the-post system or change to a new system of proportional representation.

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Thirty one per cent of respondents said they wanted to keep the current system, with 33 per cent in favour of a change to proportional representation, according to the poll.

The poll also showed that one-third of respondents (33 per cent) were undecided as to how they would vote.

An Angus Reid release stated that groups that had historically been more likely to vote — including older respondents and those with higher household incomes — were more likely to say they planned to vote for first-past-the-post.

When asked how likely they were “to actually vote” by completing and mailing back their ballot in time, only 31 per cent of respondents said they were 100 per cent certain they would vote, while 37 said they would probably vote. Eight per cent said they probably wouldn’t vote, and 24 per cent said they might if the campaign was interesting.