A Vote is a Chess Move, Not a Valentine!
This is recent polling data from our riding, Courtenay-Alberni, and comes from the useful website smartvoting.ca.
The situation reminds me of 2015, when we were so eager to get rid of Stephen Harper, and our Conservative MP John Duncan. We wanted to show them the door and boy, did we have our reasons!
The Greens, Liberals, and NDP all pulled together and put Gord Johns (who had the best chance to win against Duncan) over the top to be our new MP, and helped defeat Harper. This time, we could defeat the Conservative candidate again, but only if we all pull together to vote for our strongest centre/left candidate in our riding, in our case the NDP incumbent, Gord Johns.
Liberals, I feel your pain, but remember that no Liberal has been elected in 50 years in our area. A vote for the Liberal candidate in our riding will not help Mark Carney become Prime Minister. But denying our seat to the Conservatives will help Mark Carney. Don’t let your vote go to waste!
If this does not make sense to you, this little video does a good job of explaining how that works:
(Note that you can go to smartvoting.ca to see the most recent polling for our riding or any other. They use aggregated data from all the reputable polls in Canada to make these projections.)
