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Poll result: No love in the air for many Richmond News readers

Almost 65 per cent of readers who answered the poll are either doing nothing for Valentine's Day or don't celebrate it in the first place.
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Almost 65 per cent of readers who answered the poll are either doing nothing for Valentine's Day or don't celebrate it in the first place.

With the fabled Valentine's Day just around the corner, the Richmond News polled 715 Richmond News readers and asked the question: What do you have planned for Valentine's Day?

The poll ran from 1/24/2023 to 1/30/2023. Of the 715 votes, we can determine that 184 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Romantic weekend away 1.63 % local, 2.38 % total    
Dine out and present 7.07 % local, 6.01 % total    
Dine in and present 3.80 % local, 5.03 % total    
Card and present 3.26 % local, 3.92 % total    
Card 4.89 % local, 3.36 % total    
A kiss and hug 11.96 % local, 13.15 % total    
A hug 1.63 % local, 1.26 % total    
Nothing 36.96 % local, 39.30 % total    
Don't celebrate it 28.26 % local, 25.59 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.66%, 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.