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Originally Posted by evman150
While this may be common in Alberta, this is not nearly do ubiquitous in other parts of the country. In BC, I'd like to believe there are many voters who will vote for the best candidate.
In the last three federal elections, I've voted for three different parties. Each time, I went with the person I felt would best represent my riding's interests.
To prevent this from being a total holier-than-thou post, I will admit this is more readily possible on the centre-left, where there are three options instead of one (on the centre-right).
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It was more of a comment on the strength of the party whips. I'm am sure everyone has their own reasons for voting a particular way. But it seems on so many important issue even though you voted for an MLA/MP your vote truly went to the party leadership/PM.
Pretty much the only thing I admire about the american system is that congressmen are free and willing to cross party lines on votes.