2017 British Columbia election

[King of Kensington]

How is the BC NDP handling the "jobs vs. environment" frame or materialism vs. post-materialism this time?  False dichotomy it may be, it has plagued the party since the 1990s.  Take too strong an environmental stance, you risk losing votes to the right, take too strong an "extractionist" stance you lose votes to greens.

The common narrative for BC 2013 is that Christy Clark put on a hard hat and promised construction jobs, costing the NDP votes in the interior.  Then again, the NDP did worse than expected in the Lower Mainland too, and I have my doubts this was why the Liberals won votes there too.

[King of Kensington]

What's striking to me in this election is the erosion of the "urban liberal" pillar of the Free Enterprise Coalition over these past two elections.  In terms of their geographic base, Christy Clark's "Liberals" look pretty much identical to Harper's Conservatives in 2008 and 2011, False Creek really being the last of the "federal Liberal" BC Liberal holdouts. 

The "urban pillar" group has really solidified behind the NDP in the past two elections.  David Eby won with a much bigger margin in Point Grey than Gordon Campbell did in 1996, 2005 and 2009, the NDP took Fairview again by a wide margin too and even False Creek was close.

[King of Kensington]

Also Vancouver-Quilchena and in the 2015 Federal election the Liberals won North/West Vancouver by large margins.

Again, said Harper's Conservatives in 2008 and 2011.