Liberal leader Christy Clark paid a visit to Ladner Monday morning to support Delta South provincial election candidate Bruce McDonald.
Clark paid a visit at Stir Coffee House, talking with supporters and giving McDonald encouragement.
With just a day to go before the May 14 general voting day, she was in a whirlwind tour of ridings in an intense final campaign push.
According to Elections B.C., 3,413 residents of Delta South, out of 34,473 eligible voters, voted in the advanced polls last week, a turnout of roughly 10 per cent. Delta South had the overall highest voter turnout among B.C. ridings in 2009.
The Liberals have been closing the gap in opinion polls leading up to election
day, but NDP still holds the lead.
It isn't clear if any of that means anything in Delta South, a riding facing several big issues, as well as having a unique election dynamic.
In 2009, Vicki Huntington was the first independent elected to the legislature in 60 years. This time she is up against McDonald, a longtime civic councillor that accepted a Liberal invitation to run in a bid to win back the riding, which means getting back disenchanted Liberal votes that flocked to Huntington.
Also running is Nic Slater, who ran for the New Democrats in Delta-Richmond East in the last federal election. He's battling to gain back many of the New Democrat voters who had strategically parked their votes with Huntington in the last election.
The Conservatives and Greens are not fielding candidates in Delta South out of respect for Huntington.
Both McDonald and Slater campaigned on the need to have a voice in government, while Huntington continued her message that party politics doesn't allow MLAs to speak out on behalf of their constituents.
