October 28, 1992 68 pages

LOCAL VOTER turnout was heavy on Monday as the North Shore overwhelmingly rejected the Charlottetown Accord. Approximately 81%

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Capilano-Howe Sound riding and approximately 80% of voters in the North Vancouver riding cast ballots in the referendum.

59% vote No in Capilano-Howe Sound; 68% No in NV

IT WAS two large local thumbs down to the proposed
Charlottetown Accord as North Shore voters joined in a
resounding national rejection of the constitutional question
posed in Monday’s national referendum.

In the Capilano-Howe Sound
federal riding, 59% of the voters
who turned out chose to reject the
deal.

Of 45,946 total votes cast in the
riding, 27,154 voted No.

The riding produced 18,663 Yes
votes — 41% of the riding’s vote
total.

Approximately 81% of the
56,714 eligible voters in the 155-
poll riding cast ballots in the ref-
erenduni,

Capilano-Howe
MP Mary Collins

Sound Tory
had supported

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

the Yes side during the referen-
dum carapaign.

In the North Vancouver federal
riding, with 193 of 194 polls
tallied to press time Tuesday, the
No vote was even louder than it
was in Capilano-Howe Sound.

The No side accounted for 68%
of the total 52,006 votes cast, as
35,227 people voted against the

package of constitutional reforms
contained in the Charlottetown
Accord.

The referendum question was
approved by 32% of North Van-
couver voters. The Yes side was
represented by 16,621 voters.

Voter turnout was equally heavy
in North Vancouver, with 80% of
64,640 cligible voters casting votes
on Monday.

Early in the campaign, North
Vancouver MP Chuck Cook
broke ranks with fellow Conser-
vatives by publicly supporting the
No side on the issue.

Monday’s results confirmed
trends indicated in News surveys
conducted in September and
earlier this month.

In a Sept. 13 telephone survey

of $09 North Shore residents,
86% of those who responded said
they planned to vote in the refer-
endum.

Of that total approximately
22% of those who answered the
survey said they would vote No;
16.3% said they would: vote Yes.
A full 45% said they were
undecided at the time.

In an Oct. 18 News survey,
37.2% of those who answered the
survey said they would vote No;
14.2% said they would vote Yes.
Just over 26% said they were
undecided.

Close to 68% of B.C. voters
said No to the accord.
eLocal referendum reaction: page
3;

Noel Wright: page 6;

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NEWS photo Terry Peters
of eligible voters in the

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