But the main reason people don’t vote seems to be that they don’t think their vote will make a difference, so voting is not worth the effort. [...]
In the 2024 BC provincial election, my local member of legislative assembly [MLA] won my riding by less than a hundred votes. Other ridings were much closer, including Kelowna Centre, and Surrey Guildford, where MLA Garry Begg won his seat by only 27 votes. While not every election has such close results, you never know how they will turn out.
This is fundamentally where my own apathy towards voting comes from; I don't live in one of those ridings. I absolutely know how the results here will turn out: overwhelmingly conversative. My vote truly does not mean anything in the current system. I'll still vote, I always do as I'm of the opinion that you're not allowed to complain about the results if you don't, but I find it hard to blame people for not caring, at least here.
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Date: 2025-04-03 05:09 pm (UTC)In the 2024 BC provincial election, my local member of legislative assembly [MLA] won my riding by less than a hundred votes. Other ridings were much closer, including Kelowna Centre, and Surrey Guildford, where MLA Garry Begg won his seat by only 27 votes. While not every election has such close results, you never know how they will turn out.
This is fundamentally where my own apathy towards voting comes from; I don't live in one of those ridings. I absolutely know how the results here will turn out: overwhelmingly conversative. My vote truly does not mean anything in the current system. I'll still vote, I always do as I'm of the opinion that you're not allowed to complain about the results if you don't, but I find it hard to blame people for not caring, at least here.