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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

A reminder to all those who aren't Canadian, that the Conservatives are really the only right wing party at all anymore in Canada. There WAS a small splinter group (and they still exist) but they get like, less than 0.7% of the vote or something?

Technically there are a couple right wing parties because Canada officially will have like 5-8 candidates running in many ridings, but the only ones that really matter will be the liberal party, and depending where you live, NDP or maybe the one riding that typically goes Green. Even the Conservative Party really should be 2-3 separate parties, given its a conglomeration of every random nutcase that would fall under "conservative" - but if they did they'd never win anything so that's unlikely to happen.

The PPC was on the upswing, getting about 5% of the national popular vote in the 2021 election (an increase from 2019), but not focused enough to grant any seats. They've been pretty quiet since Covid ended, so we'll have to wait and see until all the votes are fully counted to see if they made any ground this time. Pollievre also leaned into the far-right conservative base pretty hard, which probably would have eaten away at much of the PPC's base.

Enclave posted...

It was largely strategic voting that did in the NDP.

Singh hasn't really been popular for a while - he comes off as attention-grabby and nobody is really sure what the NDP is actually supposed to represent with him at the helm, because he's taken a lot of the emphasis off of like, strong unions.

But yeah, the thing that really did the NDP in was a lot of people in NDP ridings strategically trying to vote liberal to be anti-conservative, which ironically gave a lot of those seats to the otherwise more distant conservative.