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Originally Posted by Rathji
You are 100% right that those poll results likely gave the PC party a larger majority than they deserved, because a rather large number of people in the province decided to vote strategically, to avoid the potential issues of electing the type of party that had these candidates.
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Disagree. It wasn't larger than deserved because of strategic voting, it's larger than deserved because of single-representative districts. But within each district, strategic voting helped produce a more representative outcome. And to be honest, there's not much difference between polls showing the Wildrose ahead and polls showing the Wildrose behind. It's the top two spots that matter, because the top two are the viable strategic choices.