Data from CBC's Vote Compass website shows a province not just divided on partisan lines but on geographic ones as well.

In answering 30 public policy questions, people from Vancouver and Vancouver Island were much more likely to give answers corresponding to the left of the political spectrum than those in the rest of the province.

"In many ways, B.C. is a province that's divided and polarized between left and right. The bulk of the left wing vote is concentrated in Vancouver, parts of the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, and the more conservative vote is in the Fraser Valley, southern Interior, the north — and that's reflected in the vote share," said UBC political scientist Max Cameron.

One way to look at the differences is simply by viewing the 10 most right and left-learning ridings in the province — all of which went to the party you might expect in the 2013 election.

But another, starker way of showing the regional differences is by dividing up B.C.'s 87 ridings into three groups — the 29 furthest to the right, the 29 furthest to the left and the 29 in between.

When viewed through that perspective, the differences between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, compared to the rest of the province, are stark.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, NDP Leader John Horgan has spent around half of his time in the Surrey area and Metro Vancouver suburbs, reflecting his party's need to win swing seats in those ridings.

"Because its natural vote share is slightly smaller than the Liberal vote share, it has to work harder to expand their base, and that's what makes it crucial for it to reach beyond its core constituency ... into those parts of suburbia where low income voters might respond to the types of messages John Horgan has been providing," he said.

About Vote Compass

Developed by a team of social and statistical scientists from Vox Pop Labs, Vote Compass is a civic engagement application offered in British Columbia exclusively by CBC News.

The findings are based on 37,379 respondents who participated in Vote Compass from April 11 to May 4, 2017.

The position of ridings on the graph are normalized on a 0-1 scale determined by an aggregate measure derived from answers to the 30 policy propositions in Vote Compass, not self-placement.

In other words, just because Peace River South is on the absolute rightmost edge of the graph, does not inherently mean voters there are extremely right-wing. What the results do indicate, however, is that out of all of the ridings in B.C., Peace River South is the most right-leaning on public policy issues.