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Originally Posted by arsenal
If you go to http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/ and look at the flash map, and zoom into the GTA there is a riding by riding break down.
Thornhill, Mississauga-Erindale, Oak Ridges-Markham, Whitby-Oshawa where a few of the ridings in the immediate surrounding area that voted conservative. Trinity-Spadina and Toronto-Danforth voted NDP.
The rest of Toronto and immediate surrounding area voted Liberal. Those are the imaginary people in the GTA i am talking about. As you move out of Toronto, then it starts getting blue. |
This is what you originally said:
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If you look at the GTA voting results (not all of Ontario), you will see that GTA is all red.
So while it may not be "Ontario" that blindly votes Liberal, but the majority of people that live in the GTA, do blindly vote Liberal. And the GTA has enough seats to make a difference.
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Emphasis added.
Once I pointed out that almost half (31/63) of the ridings in the GTA elected either Conservate or NDP candidates (and the Conservatives actually had a greater share of the popular vote than the Liberals), you moved the goalposts and claimed that you didn't really mean that everyone in the
Greater Toronto Area voted for the Liberals, only those in urban Toronto itself. And of course, even that isn't true, since both Toronto-Danforth and Trinty-Spadina are urban Toronto ridings that didn't elect Liberal candidates.
So what exactly is the point you're trying to make? That half the ridings in the GTA elected Liberals and the other half didn't...and that proves that the GTA is as much of a stronghold to the Liberals as Alberta is to the Conservatives?