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Originally Posted by driveway
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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WHAT?! clear choice of the majority of canadians?
Using this logic there are a number of combinations that would add up to being the 'clear choice' of the majority of canadians:
CPC + NDP
CPC + Liberal
CPC + Bloc
CPC + NDP + Liberal
CPC + Liberal + Bloc
CPC + Liberal + Bloc + NDP
NDP + Liberal + Bloc
You claim that the last one is the clear choice of the majority... why? All you did was add up some votes for different parties.
Wouldn't the 'clear choice' of the majority at least involve the party that won the most seats and got the highest % of the popular vote? Yet you chose the only option on the list that didn't included that party.