[kevman]

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.

Yes, but can you guarantee everyone of those Lib/NDP/Bloc voters would have still voted that way if they knew there would be a Lib/NDP/Bloc coaltion? The truth is there are a lot of right leaning Liberal's that are scared of the NDP and would rather vote Conservative than have the Liberals and NDP working together.

Just curious, what's your opinion on MP's crossing the floor?