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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