Results from the October election:
Bloc - 50 seats, 1,379,565 votes, 10.0 % of the vote.
Liberals - 76 seats, 3,629,990 votes, 26.2% of the vote.
NDP - 37 seats, 2,517,075 votes, 18.2% of the vote.
CPC - 143 seats, 5,205,334 votes, 37.6% of the vote
An argument can be made that a coalition government consisting of the NDP and Liberals would have a mandate to govern, considering they earned a total of 6,147,065 votes and 44.4% of the popular vote.
While their combined seat-total of 113 is still less than the conservatives, the addition of the Bloc's 50 seats brings a three-way coalition into majority territory, and adds another 10% of the popular vote, bringing such a coalition into the realm of being the clear choice of the majority of Canadians.
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