My advice to strategic voters in Ontario ridings: Strategic voting in Essex: vote NDP Strategic voting in Mississauga-Erin Mills Strategic voting in Mississauga East: vote Liberal Strategic voting in Mississauga Centre: vote Liberal (To be continued)
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Bouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Essex: vote NDP
Strategic voting in Essex The riding of Essex in southwest Ontario has had a Conservative MP, Jeff Watson, since 2004. In the last election, the results were CPC (48%), NDP (35%), Lib. (14%), Green (2%). An Environics poll taken Oct. 2-5, however, suggests that the Conservatives could be vulnerable in Essex if strategic
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Alberta (recap)
Strategic voting Alberta Some recent posts on strategic voting in Alberta Strategic voting in Edmonton Riverbend: vote NDP Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning: vote NDP Strategic voting in Edmonton Griesbach: vote NDP Strategic voting in Edmonton Centre: vote NDP
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas: crowdfunding polls
Strategic voting in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas A couple days ago, I discussed the prospects for strategic voting in the riding of Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas, and advising waiting until more is known. The good people at votetogether.ca were gathering pledges of strategic voters, with the goal of crowd-funding a poll once 500 pledges were reached. The
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning
Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning Edmonton Manning is a new riding created out of parts of Edmonton-Sherwood Park, Edmonton East and Edmonton-St. Albert. If the 2011 results of those three ridings were cast within the new riding boundaries, the results would be (link): Con (55%), NDP (27%), Lib (9%), Green
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Edmonton Griesbach: vote NDP
Strategic voting in Edmonton Griesbach Another Edmonton riding where strategic voting could make a difference is Edmonton-Griesbach. It is a new riding formed out of parts of the ridings of old Edmonton East and St. Albert-Edmonton, both of which have been reliable Conservative ridings. If the results of the 2011
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Edmonton Centre: vote NDP
The election of the Notley-NDP in Alberta was one of this year’s biggest election stories. In Edmonton, however, the NDP has been strong for a long time. Anne Duncan has turned Edmonton-Strathcona into one of the NDP’s safest seats, and they are competitive in other adjacent ridings. Strategic voting in
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Mississauga Erin Mills: Vote Liberal
Strategic voting inMississauga Erin Mills The riding of Mississauga-Erin Mills is the new name for what used to be Mississauga-Erindale, which has been represented since 2008 by Conservative MP Robert Dechert. In the 2011 election the vote split (link): Con (47%) / Lib (39%) / NDP (16%) / Green (4%). This is another riding
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Misissauga East-Cooksville: vote Liberal
The riding of Misissauga East-Cooksville is currently represented by Conservative MP Wladyslaw Lizon, who in 2011 defeated the Liberal Peter Fonseca by some 600 votes. This is a rematch. Strategic voting inMississauga East-Cooksville Like most ridings in the GTA, the riding boundaries have been redrawn. If the 2011 votes are recast in
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Mississauga Centre: vote Liberal
Strategic voting in Mississauga Centre Mississauga Centre is another riding in which tactical voting makes sense. Like most ridings in southern Ontario, its boundaries have been redrawn. If the 2011 results are recast into the new boundaries (link), the results would have been: Con (42%) /Lib (37%) / NDP (17%)
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic Voting in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas: pledge votegether.ca
Strategic Voting in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas is a newly formed riding that incorporates parts of the old Ancaster-Dundas-Flamorough-Westdale riding. The rural polls of Flamborough were removed and joined with Glanborough to form a new riding. In the process of doing this, however, some 12,000 Conservative votes were moved out
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in New Brunswick (recap)
Strategic voting in New Brunswick Strategic voting in Fredericton: vote Liberal Strategic voting in Saint John-Rothesay: vote Liberal Strategic Voting in Madawaska-Restigouche: vote Liberal Strategic voting in Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe: vote Liberal Strategic voting in Fundy Royal: vote NDP
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Fundy Royal: vote NDP
The riding of Fundy-Royal in New Brunswick is a long shot for strategic voters. Fundy Royal the 2011 vote break-down in Fundy Royal was: Con (58%) / Lib (10%) / NDP (27%) / Green (5%) the strong second place finish of the NDP combined with a weakening of Conservative support just backing the NDP here. Other posts: Strategic
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe: vote Liberal
The riding of Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe in New Brunswick offers another opportunity for strategic voters to work together to defeat the Conservatives. Strategic voting inMoncton-Riverview-Dieppe In 2011, the breakdown of votes (link) was: Con (37%) / Lib (31%) / NDP (28%) / Green (4%) Eric Grenier at 308.com predicts that Liberals (whose support in Atlantic Canada has increased since 2011)
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Saint John-Rothesay: vote Liberal
Strategic voting inSaint John-Rothesy Continuing our survey of strategic voting opportunities in New Brunswick, we turn our attention to Saint John-Rothesay in the last election, the electoral results in Saint John-Rothesay were: Con (50%) / Lib (16%) / NDP (31%) / Green (3%) a recent local poll conducted by Environics found voting intentions as follows: Con (38%) / Lib (33%) / NDP (25%) / Green (4%) This
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic Voting in Madawaska-Restigouche: vote Liberal
Another New Brunswick riding where strategic voting could make a difference is Madawaska-Restigouche. Its MP, Bernard Valcourt, is in a close race with the Liberals. Strategic voting in Madawaska-Restigouche the results in 2011 were (see link): Con (40%) / Lib (35%) / NDP (19%) / Green (2%) Eric Grenier at 308.com projects the Liberals successfully taking the riding. strategicvoting.ca urges
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic-voting in Mississauga-Milton: vote Liberal
Mississauga Malton is a new riding in Ontario, which encompasses parts of what used to be three ridings—Bramalea-Gore-Malton, Mississauga-Brampton South and Mississauga-Streetsville—all of which voted Conservative in the last election. Recasting the votes of the last election onto the current boundaries, however, would have resulted in a very tight race
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Fredericton: vote Liberal
We have seen that strategic voting could play a decisive role in several swing ridings in Winnipeg and Saskatchewan. Tactical voting may be useful several ridings in New Brunswick, including Fredericton. Strategic voting Fredericton The results of the 2011 election in Fredericton were: Con (47%) / Lib (24%)* / NDP (24%) / Green (4%) two local polls of voting intentions in
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Saskatchewan (recap)
Strategic voting Saskatchewan To recap our earlier posts, and to add a few more ridings, strategic voters in Saskatchewan are best advised to vote NDP in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River vote NDP in Regina-Lewan: vote NDP in Saskatoon-University vote Liberal in Regina Wascana vote NDP in Saskatoon-Grasswood
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How to Use Strategic Voting to Defeat the Bigot Cons
Stephen Harper and his Aussie attack monster Lynton Crosby must be delighted. Not only do they now have the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal to wave around as a shiny bauble to try to distract voters.The niqab issue is back in the spotlight. The Federal Court of Appeal has denied the application for a
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