Vote splitting could give Conservatives wins in ridings with as little as 35% of the vote

I live in Nanaimo on Vancouver island, and our current MP is NDP. Before her, our MP was one of three Green Party MP’s in parliament. My riding is extremely progressive, with both provincial and federal offices held by the NDP (except one term with the Green MP) for many years.

This election, both the liberals and greens are running candidates in my riding, even though polling shows neither of them will pull more than high single digit proportions of the vote, diminishing the proportion for the current NDP incumbent, and enabling the conservatives to win with as little as 35% of the vote.

The ethical and strategic move would be for the Liberal and Green candidates to drop out and throw their support to the NDP. This happened a few days ago in a riding in, IIRC, Ontario, where the NDP candidate, polling in the low single digits, withdrew from a race where the Liberal and Conservative candidates were neck and neck.

There are more ridings like this across Canada, and folks need to realize these vote splitting ridings are Polievre’s most likely path to victory.

For more information on my riding, but with a broader context for the whole election, go to:

Stopthesplitnanaimo.ca