Oh I'll continue to say it because it depends where. In this specific case it was indeed the case. However my riding had 99% chances to go to the Liberals, it did, and my vote wouldn't have made any difference.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If everyone who voted Liberal in your riding thought that, and decided not to vote for that reason, then I think the results would have been very different.

I sometimes wonder if something similar happened further south last November - too many voters were lukewarm on Harris and sat out instead of voting, figuring that Harris would win anyways. And we all know how that turned out.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

IMO it's an electoral reform issue. It's very true that some people votes don't count, because they voted for someone who didn't get elected, thus they elected no one and their voice isn't heard.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago

Tell that to the vast majority of ridings where it doesn't really matter :/

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Stupid Leela...

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We really need proportional representation... ~~IMO it's good that the riding isn't conservative anymore, but~~ I wish that ~half the population of that riding didn't just essentially elected no one.

Listen, betting on which horse will when the campaign race is no basis for a system of government.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago

It was a BQ riding, not CPC.

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

What are you talking about? Did you read the article?