Numbers game: Less than 18% of Canadian residents actually voted for the Conservative party of Canada in the 2011 election

Yes, this title is incredibly misleading – I just wanted to have some fun. The title may be misleading, but it’s technically true.

What I did was take the population of Canada, which is 33,476,688 according to the 2011 census, the number of Canadians who actually voted, which was around 14,823,408 according to Elections Canada, and the percent of those who voted for the Conservative Party (39.6%). 

The result, out of all the population in Canada in 2011, only about 17.5% of them casted their ballot for the Conservative Party of Canada. Now, a lot of the (Read more…)