As the clock winds down on B.C.’s provincial election campaign, party leaders packed in the stops. David Eby set the pace, making six different appearances south of the Fraser.

“This election is far from over,” Eby said.

But new polling from Mainstreet Research tells a different story.

The latest numbers have the BC Conservatives ahead of Eby’s BC NDP by about six percentage points, suggesting Eby hasn’t been able to close any ground in a race his party has trailed from the outset.

“They’re really running out of runway here,” said Mainstreet senior analyst Robert Martin.

This comes despite Eby regularly subjecting himself to scrutiny from the media, while Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson has shied away by comparison. Eby took exception to that on Wednesday.

“What I don’t understand is attending private donor events while you don’t attend to answer questions from the media, while you don’t attend debates like Conservative candidates are avoiding right now, you don’t take follow-up questions,” Eby said.

“British Columbians deserve to know your plan.”

Martin says that’s likely by design. Holding what appears to be a healthy lead with all of the policy cards on the table, the Conservatives are effectively running out the clock.

“They want the focus on Eby down the stretch here, and they’re just like, ‘We’re not going to do anything. We’re not going to have any more press releases, we’re not going to talk about the budget we proposed, the policy proposals we’ve done, we’re not going to talk about any of that, we’re just going to the let the media focus on Eby, because that’s been currently working so far,’” he said.

Martin added that last week’s debate didn’t seem to have an appreciable impact on the numbers, but the Greens have seen a big boost, which he thinks may be coming from voters associating them with Pete Fry’s Vancouver Greens.

BC Greens Leader Emily Lowan was on Vancouver Island Wednesday, pitching voters on her plan to protect people living in leaseholds.

There are about 2,500 leasehold units in B.C., so this kind of living situation is relatively uncommon, which Lowan says causes residents’ concerns to fall through the cracks.

“Because these homes fall outside both the Residential Tenancy Act and the Strata Property Act, residents see no caps on fee increases, and they don’t have a right to see how their money is spent,” she said.

“There is no basic transparency, no way to reign in spending by a landlord. And most importantly, there is no clear way to fight back.”

Lowan proposed a suite of measures that she said would protect those residents from unfair fees and give them access to legal recourse.

The morning’s final policy announcement was from CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko, who pledged to make energy-efficient upgrades like heat pumps and insulation more affordable.

As we head into the final stretch before Election Day, there are still about 10 per cent of voters who are undecided.