Strategic Voting

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To come up with a party suggestion in a certain riding I followed the following methodology:


Using the last federal election results I calculated what I call the “Cumulative Progressive Vote” (CPV), which is the combined vote of the Liberals, the N.D.P. and the Green party. Using the CPV I found that 68 ridings would’ve voted a progressive MP if the supporters of the three parties voted for one candidate.

"a system that would allow for the 68 ridings to vote for one party while keeping the share of the vote for each party almost the same."

Voting for one party in the 68 ridings will cause the other two parties to lose votes which will affect the party's  vote-share. So I came up with a system that would allow for the 68 ridings to vote for one party while keeping the share of the vote for each party almost the same.


In each of the 308 electoral districts, I’m suggesting to vote for one party only. So I’m suggesting using strategic voting not only in the 68 ridings but in each and every riding to allow for the same level of popular support for each party. To decide which party to vote for I used a simple criteria with few exceptions to allow for each party to acquire the same vote share:



  1. Each party will keep the ridings they won in the last election. So this will leave the Liberals with 122 seats, the N.D.P. with the 29 seats they won in 2006 federal election.
  2. The progressive party (L, NDP or GP) with the most votes in the 68 ridings will carry the riding.
  3. The exceptions to these two rules are the following:

  • The following ridings will go to the N.D.P. instead of the Liberals:

    1. New Brunswick’s Fundy Royal
    2. Ontario’s Elgin/Middlesex/London
    3. Ontario’s Essex
    4. Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon/Wanuskewin
    5. British Columbia’s Cariboo/Prince George
    6. British Columbia’s Fleetwood/Port Kells
    7. British Columbia’s Port Moody/Westwood/Port Coquitlam

  • The following ridings will go to the Green Party:

    1. Nova Scotia’s Central Nova
    2. British Columbia’s West Vancouver/Sunshine Coast/Sea to Sky Country

    The only reason for the exceptions is to allow for each party to acquire the same vote share. The Green Party's exceptions are evident.


    1. The ridings that were not won by either of the progressive parties or were not one of the 68 ridings were decided with only one rule, which to keep the same vote share for each party, no exceptions.