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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will campaign Sunday with candidates in hotly contested ridings in West Vancouver, Port Moody and Surrey, before holding party rallies in Vancouver and then Victoria. Conservative leader Andrew Scheer will also visit Vancouver, West Vancouver and Surrey on Sunday, before an evening rally in Richmond.

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There is much at stake here.

The Liberals won 17 of B.C.’s 42 ridings in 2015, a massive increase over the two seats they won in 2011, but they’re facing tough fights to hold onto some of them this year. The Conservatives, who fell from 21 seats in 2011 to just 10 in 2015, are working hard to try to paint many of those Grit-held ridings blue again.

The NDP’s strength in B.C. remained roughly the same in 2015 with 14 victories, about one-third of the total number of seats the party held at dissolution — which is why B.C. is so important to Singh.

Also from B.C., May is running for re-election in Saanich-Gulf Islands, and her party’s only other federal seat is in Nanaimo-Ladysmith. Her party’s expansion dreams are rooted in this province.

Since the writ dropped Sept. 11, the leaders have made various stump speeches in B.C. Postmedia News analyzed the leaders’ travel to this province and found:

• Trudeau has visited B.C. over five days, for nine campaign stops, most of those in Metro. He twice campaigned with candidate Randeep Sarai running for re-election in Surrey Centre, and twice stopped in Burnaby South where Liberal Neelam Brar is challenging Singh.