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Originally Posted by blankall
I don't know if I'd call it a collapse. They went from 18.7 to 33.2% of the popular vote between elections.
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~37% actually (assuming you're talking about the 2nd round), basically doubling their total from last election.
Though the strategic voting likely did benefit the RN's raw vote totals, even if it hurt their seat count. There were a bunch of constituencies where the Ensemble or the NFP pulled their candidate for the 2nd round of voting in order to prevent vote splitting. So in situations where the Ensemble candidate backed out, only some of the support would have gone to the left wing NFP, while some would have gone to the RN. With a full slate of candidates, RN's 2nd round support would have likely been lower.