It is the social media age so how well are the candidates in Saanich doing?   Not that well
Facebook "likes" or members
Colin Plant     618
Fred Haynes     250
Vicki Sanders   243
Richard Atwell  209
Shawn Newby     185
David Shebib     98 - running for mayor in 13 municipalities
Marsha Henderson 65
Colin Plant is the leader on Facebook but 618 "likes" is not a large number of people.
The following candidates do not have campaign Facebook pages and use their personal/professional profiles in the election
Judy Brownoff
Susan Brice
Paul Gerrard
Frank Leonard
Rebecca Mersereau
Dean Murdock
The following candidates have no Facebook presence I am aware of
Vic Derman
Nicola Wade
Leif Wergeland
Twitter Stats
Candidate    followers following tweets recent activity?
Frank Leonard  3,562     1,353   13,673  yes
Dean Murdock     869       834    1,214  2 days ago
Vicki Sanders    420       485      572  yes
Richard Atwell   243       474      280  yes
Colin Plant      129       152      226  yes
Rebecca Mersereau 81       271       61  yes
Susan Brice       73        48        7  no
Shawn Newby       59        87       77  yes
Marsha Henderson  33        32       35  4 days ago
Paul Gerrard      30        53        2  no
Fred Haynes       17        11        5  no
Mayor Frank Leonard is a regular twitter user and has been so for sometime, so it is not a surprise that he way out ahead everyone else.
This is a link to a Twitter list of all the Saanich candidates
Candidates that do not seem to have Twitter accounts
Judy Brownoff
Vic Derman
David Shebib
Nicola Wade
Leif Wergelund
Overall, three of the current council are functionally not using social media -  Vic Derman, Nicola Wade and Leif Wergelund
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