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With no major flubs or knock-out punches during the only televised leaders’ debate of the election campaign, B.C. residents say the NDP’s John Horgan won the night — but only by a slim margin.

A Mainstreet/Postmedia poll conducted immediately after the debate asked 1,074 residents who performed the best, regardless of which party the respondents support: 33 per cent said Horgan, 29 per cent Green leader Andrew Weaver and 28 per cent Liberal leader Christy Clark. Only 10 per cent were undecided. The poll’s margin of error is three per cent.

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“We see here it is a very tight (three-way) race,” said David Valentin, vice-president of Mainstreet Research. “We are not seeing the result of any knockout punch in that debate.”

Horgan’s lead increased in Metro Vancouver with 36 per cent, compared to roughly 28 per cent for both Weaver and Clark. Those results were largely the same on Vancouver Island. Clark had a better showing in the areas of B.C. outside Metro and the Island, but was polling only slightly ahead of her two rivals.