Teams of campaign volunteers in ridings across Winnipeg will be working to get voters to the polls on election day.
"We have a huge database and a national database that tells us where we're at,” said Matt Henderson, the NDP candidate in Winnipeg South Centre. “We're very, very excited. It's going to be close tomorrow. And so now it's just a matter of reminding people to vote."
In Winnipeg Centre, Conservative Allie Szarkiewicz spent Sunday going door-to-door looking to shore up support.
She’ll even help people get a ride to the polling stations.
"We did that for the advance polls, we had people helping out,” said Szarkiewicz. “Especially for seniors who aren't as mobile.”
Volunteers in Liberal Terry Duguid’s Winnipeg South campaign office have a well-coordinated plan to reach out to their supporters.
They have divided the riding into seven sections and have mini-campaign offices running from houses in each one.
Volunteers will use those houses as a base of operations on election day.
Other volunteers will be at a phone bank going through voter lists.
"We'll be reminding people to vote, right to the last hour, right till 8:30,” said Duguid. “As our leader said last night it's going to be a close election, every vote counts."
The Green Party will also have volunteers phoning voters and offering to drive them to the polls.
The latest poll done for CTV News and The Globe and Mail by Nanos Research shows the Liberals in the lead with 37 per cent support, the Conservatives with 30.5 per cent, and the NDP with 22 per cent.
Political analyst and author Chris Adams says those numbers don’t mean anything unless candidates work hard to get people to the polls.
"Some of the party machines are better suited for that,” said Adams. “They've been in the ridings for a longer time, they might have more money, they might have more volunteers to drive people to the polling stations."
Monday night, after 78 gruelling days of campaigning, candidates and volunteers will find out if their hard work has paid off.
