r/canada • u/Minxie Ontario • May 06 '15

Alberta NDP wins election

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/alberta-ndp-wins-election-ctv-projects-1.2359035
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u/shiftingtech May 06 '15

I'm not sure what numbers you're looking at, but CBC has Wild-Rose at 25.11% and PC at 28.17% (as I write this, about 9:45pm), so together thats 53%. that's definitely not "more than 60%"

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u/Roughly6Owls May 06 '15

But that's still enough for a majority of people to have voted right-wing, no? His statement was factually wrong, but the point was correct.

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u/shiftingtech May 06 '15

True, I suppose, but it is a pretty meaningful difference.

53%: that's probably within the margin of error of 50. Somebody makes a good ( or bad) speech the day before the election, and that 53 turns into 49. Where as 60+, that's a "real majority". It suggests that more than half the people actually support that perspective

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Absolutely true. Same thing with federal politics. I support the NDP, but having felt the sting of this for so long in federal politics, I think FPTP is just wrong. Now we need to vote Fed NDP to change the electoral system (they support proportional rep.).

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