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Originally Posted by pepper24
Anyone who voted Green Party threw their vote away. They have about 25% of the vote.
The NDP only have about 5% of the vote. Too small of percentage to share those votes with other candidates. Firstly, you'll have supporters of any party that will vote for their party no matter what. Secondly, if they chose another party you'd have a split between the Liberals and Green Party.
The Conservatives (36%) and Liberals (33%) were the only threats at winning the election. A protest vote should have gone to the Liberals, the other parties was a wasted vote.
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In hindsight you can say that, but there was an outside chance that Turner could sneak up the middle, so I don't consider a vote for him to have been "wasted". On the other hand, no reasonable person would have thought Meade stood a snowball's chance of winning.
Of course, it appears the margin of victory is greater than the number of votes for Meade anyway, so the point is moot, but at the time I wrote that last post, if you had added Meade's total to Locke, he would have been several hundred votes ahead.