Richard Froese
South Peace News
Students in Peace River School Division held a mock vote in the federal election April 28 and the Conservative party received overwhelming support.
Grade 6-12 students participated in Student Vote Canada, says a PRSD news release dated April 29.
With 878 PRSD students voting, the results showed:
-The Conservative Party of Canada with 577 votes (65.8 per cent).
-Liberal Party of Canada with 129 votes (14.7 per cent).
-New Democratic Party with 94 votes (10.7 per cent).
-Independent candidates with 52 votes (5.9 per cent).
-Rhinoceros Party with 15 votes (1.7 per cent).
-People’s Party of Canada with 11 votes (1.3 per cent).
Interestingly, the results are similar to the Alberta vote with strong Conservative support.
A further look at the PRSD student results show that, when stacked against the overall national results, the student vote showed a much closer race between the Liberals and the NDP than in the official election.
On the other hand, the vote from Red Earth Creek School showed the only results where the Conservative did not top the polls. Red Earth Creek students votes resulted in a close three-way race for top between the NDP, Liberal and Independent candidates and the Conservatives falling far behind.
Other PRSD schools participating were Peace River High School, T.A. Norris Middle School and Peace Regional Outreach Campus in Peace River, Grimshaw Public School, E.E. Oliver Elementary School and Fairview High School in Fairview, Menno Simons Community School in Cleardale, Worsley Central School, Bear Canyon Colony School, and Paul Rowe Jr,-Sr. High School in Manning.