B.C. election: NDP and Conservatives neck-and-neck, polls find [Video]

As the provincial election campaign nears the end of its first week. the latest opinion polls suggest the B.C. NDP and B.C. Conservatives are in a dead heat.

A Leger survey released Wednesday put the Conservatives two points ahead of the NDP – marking the first time John Rustad’s party has taken a polling lead.

An Angus Reid Institute survey released the same day put the two parties in a statistical tie, with 45 per cent of decided or leaning voters backing the NDP and 44 per cent backing the Conservatives. The Greens were a distant third, with 10 per cent voting intention among that group.

“A very close race,” said Angus Reid’s Dave Korzinski. “A lot of really close ridings … are going to decide this thing.”

Overall, one-in-five respondents in the survey remained undecided.

Both polls found NDP Leader David Eby has an edge on favourability over Rustad and Green leader Sonia Furstenau.

A significant number …