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Originally Posted by getbak
We know that a lot of the people who voted in 2011 were not necessarily PC supporters, but they bought memberships just to be able to choose the Premier.
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While that is true the numbers were still way down from the previous race in 2006. If anything the large number of outsiders voting should have inflated the total votes.
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Originally Posted by getbak
This says that between 1 and 2% of Canadians are ongoing members of a political party: http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features...ion-and-issues, so if anything, today's numbers are a more realistic total of actual PC party members than the past three times the PCs elected a new leader and stuffed the ballots along the way. |
I don't have any hard numbers to back me up but I would assume that membership for any party would usually spike around the time of a leadership race. Not sure that using stats for ongoing members is the best comparison.