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Poll result: Most Richmondites take down their Christmas tree after New Year

More than 71 per cent cent said they wait until after New Year celebrations before sending their trees to the chipper
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Richmond News polled 468 Richmond News readers and asked the question: When do you take down your Christmas tree?

The poll ran from 12/27/2021 to 12/31/2021. Of the 468 votes, we can determine that 99 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

After Boxing Day. 15.15 % local, 11.11 % total    
After New Year celebrations 64.65 % local, 71.37 % total    
It's up all year round. 3.03 % local, 4.49 % total    
I don't celebrate Christmas 17.17 % local, 13.03 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.53%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.