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Originally Posted by MarchHare
How many more seats would a Joe Clark-led PC Party have won if the Alliance wasn't dominant in the West and there wasn't vote-splitting on the right in the East? His party lost a lot of votes because people who wanted the Liberals out thought the best way to achieve that was to support the Alliance.
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Good question. Unfortunately, we'll never know for sure. However, one would think with Day being such a disaster socially, strategic voting would have worked more in Clark's favor, and would have represented a more palatable alternative to Chretien. More than the 10 he won outside the west surely, unless something else was in play.