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Originally Posted by rubecube
Except that in this riding there's no reason to believe that there would be a high number of student votes in the absentee ballots because Courtenay/Comox doesn't have a high student population and the election happened between semesters. It's far more likely that the majority of those ballots belong to members of the military base up there.
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The military base thing is way overblown. CFB Comox is primarily tasked with defensive support, search and rescue, and patrols. It's not like they have a bunch of service members deployed overseas or something.
And as I mentioned above, in 2013 every riding on the island north of Victoria (and Victoria might've been the same but I didn't check) saw the NDP and Greens outperform their overall results in absentee ballots.