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Is this the making of an NDP stronghold? TheTyee.ca [Editor's note: This is the latest of a new feature on The Tyee: Charting the Votes. In charts and prose, veteran political analyst Will McMartin breaks down the important factors in key B.C. races.] Two Vancouver Island electoral districts are hosting unusual tilts in the federal general election now underway, insofar as both ridings have current and former members of Parliament going head-to-head. Also in the Charting the Votes: Canada's Federal Election '08 series to the battle in Vancouver Island North, where Conservative John Duncan and New Democrat Catherine Bell are having their rubber match. Duncan first won election to the House of Commons in 1993 with Reform, and then held the seat with Reform in 1997, the Canadian Alliance in 2000, and the Conservatives in 2004.... [read full story]
