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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Which is, of course, not true looking back to 2011. The NDP gathered 30% of the popular vote, directly benefitting from the struggles of the LPC who fell to 18%.
While I agree that you can't just lump the Liberals into the left, when they fail, they lose significant numbers to the NDP. "There aren't all that many left/center voters in the LPC" is an incorrect statement.
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From their usual 15-20%, up to 30% in an election where the LPC got hammered, and the Bloc didn't do well either (and the Greens were a non-factor). So pretty much an absolute best-case scenario, and they were only able to attract an extra 10-12%.
I think that makes my point - which was a rebuttal to the argument someone made that most Canadians are center-left.