Canadian General Election results shows what happens with a divide and conquer strategy

40th General Election
October 15, 2008

Preliminary Results
National

Party Party standing % Popular vote %


AAEV Party of Canada 0 0.0 529 0.0
Bloc Québécois 50 16.2 1,379,565 10.0
CAP 0 0.0 3,508 0.0
Christian Heritage Party 0 0.0 26,722 0.2
Communist 0 0.0 3,639 0.0
Conservative 143 46.4 5,205,334 37.6
FPNP 0 0.0 1,640 0.0
Green Party 0 0.0 940,747 6.8
Independent 2 0.7 89,524 0.7
Liberal 76 24.7 3,629,990 26.2
Libertarian 0 0.0 7,382 0.1
Marxist-Leninist 0 0.0 8,753 0.1
NDP-New Democratic Party 37 12.0 2,517,075 18.2
neorhino.ca 0 0.0 2,263 0.0
NL First Party 0 0.0 1,801 0.0
No Affiliation 0 0.0 5,458 0.0
PC Party 0 0.0 5,920 0.0
PPP 0 0.0 185 0.0
Radical Marijuana 0 0.0 2,319 0.0
WBP 0 0.0 195 0.0
Work Less Party 0 0.0 423 0.0
Total number of valid votes: 13,832,972

Polls reporting: 69,601/69,630 Voter turnout: 13,832,972 of 23,401,064 registered electors (59.1%)
The number of registered electors shown in this table does not include electors who registered on election day.

http://enr.elections.ca/National_e.aspx

The conservatives didn't divide to conquer anyone. They united and merged their parties into one so the conservative vote wasn't also divided. On the other hand, a lot of opposing conservative views are drowned out, forgotten, and their dialog is stopped cold.

Uniting the left-leaning parties would probably crush Canada's spirit. Proportional representation, IRV, preferential voting, etc, are method to stop penalizing parties for not merging without stiffling dissenting views.

The election has an expected result and is no big deal really. The only people alarmed about it do not understand the system.

But they let themselves be shafted by a 37.6% minority of rightwingers.

That's fucking sad.

...which is the slime mold of conservatives. Come on Democrats and liberals and women voters don't let this happen here on November 4th!

It seems it's making its way the Globe even to Europe.

There are just too many parties and I have no idea what they each stand for and which might be natural allies or natural enemies.

and I thought the Italians had a lot of parties....

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