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Elections are an exciting time — rare moments in a democracy when voters have a direct say in the political direction of their local community, province or nation. On Tuesday, that opportunity will come for British Columbians.

B.C. voters will get to decide whether to extend the Liberal’s 16-year term in government or whether to hand control over to the New Democratic Party or the Green party.

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B.C. has always been a divided, partisan province. Many people vote for one party their entire lives — traditionally either the NDP on the left or the Liberals (and formerly the Social Credit party) on the right. The Green party represents something new for a small, but growing body of citizens.

For hard-nosed partisans, the election will not have changed their decision on who to support, even if an opponent has made a good point on a policy. That means that elections are usually decided by the swing vote — those less ideological citizens who move their support from one party to another each election depending on which vision for the province they feel is most important at a given point in time.