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Voting strategically means voting for the party that best aligns with your political stance. In this case, the strategic vote would have been NDP. Those Liberal voters didn't get the message.

The stupidest electoral system... In my opinion the electoral system is the root of almost all problems north-america faces nowadays. It inevitably produces two parties and if you only have two parties your nation is done for because of polarization, the fighting and shifting the overton window, and so on. But mostly because it reduces the whole political landscape, which is very complex, to a a/b decision.

Isn’t the NDP person the incumbent? You’d think libs would vote for them.

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In this case, Liberals did not understand the assignment. NDP voters did.

Ugh, that is so fucking annoying. Any time I see the conservatives winning straight up the middle... And there were some where it was the other way around, too, where Liberals could have won. I'm not sure the average person can do strategic voting, so please don't think it's only NDP. The problem I think is that it's mostly the politics nerds who pay enough attention to what's happening to properly vote strategically. Maybe I'm underestimating people but I think more normal people hear "strategic" + "Mark Carney is in the lead" -> "vote liberal."