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According to a poll conducted by Mainstreet Research over the weekend, nearly one in five of B.C. voters (19 per cent) say they don’t know how they would vote if they were given the chance to do so again.

In Metro Vancouver, where 37 per cent of voters said they would vote NDP (versus 30 per cent for the B.C. Liberals and 15 per cent for the Greens), 18 per cent said they were “undecided” on which party they would support if given another chance.

UBC political science professor Max Cameron saw two different possible reasons for this post-election ambivalence.

“One would be because it was an indecisive outcome,” he said, pointing to the lacklustre nature of the overall campaign, with all three parties seemingly on script. Voters just don’t know what the result is at the moment, and aren’t sure how they really feel.

The other was “something analogous to sticker shock,” he said. “There might have been Greens who voted NDP out of fear of splitting the vote and now aren’t sure.”

He also noted the frustration with the outcome among NDP supporters: 57 per cent said they were either somewhat unsatisfied or very unsatisfied with the outcome. (Overall, 49 per cent of British Columbians said they were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the outcome, with seven per cent not sure.)

“They’re feeling the victory was snatched away,” he said. NDP supporters were done with the B.C. Liberals being in power and wanted to see a decisive switch in power. But Cameron cautioned against thinking the outcome came about because of the Greens splitting the vote.