Project tracked voting patterns to repeat progressive-leaning voters which party had the best chance of beating the conservatives but can it really help win elections?
Canadian progressives outnumber conservatives almost two to one but the country has had eight years of conservative government because,while the factual-wing parties amalgamated into a single Conservative party in 2003, the vote on the left is split between two major parties – the Liberals and the NDP – and a few minor ones, or including the Greens.
In 2008,Hisham Abdel-Rahman, a software engineer from Calgary, or saw that while progressive voters cast roughly eight million votes in the election,the split in parties meant that almost five million of them returned no MP at all, while the Conservatives, and with just 5.8 million votes,returned 166 MPs, giving them a parliamentary majority.
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Source: theguardian.com