Thursday, April 23, 2009

How the Provincial Candidates are doing on Facebook

Lana Popham has clearly done well this last week and almost doubled her supporters on facebook. He big rise masks the fact that Robin Adair did best among the Liberals in percentage terms.

We have three new entrants in facebook land.

I will be updating this next week.

Victoria Beacon Hill

* Carole James - 1914 +9.4%
* Dallas Henault - 491 +2.7%
* Adam Saab - 153 on fan page and 325 on facebook group +1.9%
* Bob Savage - still nothing online
* Saul Andersen - nothing

Victoria Swan Lake

* Rob Fleming - 522 +8.8%
* Jesse McClinton - 444 +6.5%
* David Wright - still nothing

Oak Bay Gordon Head

* Jessica Van Der Veen - 427 -1.8% in a facebook group 170 on the fan page
* Ida Chong - 142 +9.2%
* John Stevens - 20 - new facebook group

Saanich South

* Lana Popham - 313 +94.4%
* Robin Adair - 160 +19.4%
* Brian Gordon - 117 new fan page

Saanich North and the Islands

* Gary Holman - 42 new fan group
* Tom Bradfield - 30 + 272%
* Murray Coell - still nothing

Esquimalt Royal Roads

* Maurine Karajianis - 426 +1.9%
* Jane Sterk - 178 +36.9%
* Carl Ratsoy - still nothing

Juan de Fuca

* Jody Twa - 278 +0.4% in a facebook group
* John Horgan - 263 +0.4%
* James Powell - still nothing

The top ten in the region:

  1. Carole James - 1914
  2. Rob Fleming - 522
  3. Dallas Henault - 491
  4. Jesse McClinton - 417 (+2)
  5. Jessica Van Der Veen - 427 (-1)
  6. Maurine Karajianis - 426 (-1)
  7. Adam Saab - 325
  8. Lana Popham - 313 (+2)
  9. Jody Twa - 278 (-1)
  10. John Horgan - 263 (-1)

2 comments:

Samuel Godfrey said...

Hi,
Interesting analysis! While I am definitely partial to Lana, I think you are spinning this a little much.

Lana Popham had a huge increase in supporters this week.

That jumps out from the numbers you show here. There is a lot of momentum in the campaign in general right now and this spike reinforces that - there is the story!

Check out all the positive comments on the wall and compare with her competitors if you want further proof.

-S.

Jonathan said...

I've created a site specifically for the Victoria-Swan Lake candidates. Hopefully we'll see some good discussions on it: http://victoriaswanlake.ning.com/