In first past the post, if you don't have 51% of the vote in one riding, it doesn't matter if you have 40% of the vote in EVERY riding, you get no seats, no representation. If those 800k votes were highly concentrated, there might have been a risk of a seat or two being taken. But spread out? All it signals is a protest vote.
Maybe the people in charge should go onto the PPC's website, and look at their campaign promises. Because Macleans certainly hasn't done that. If PPC's getting votes, maybe their campaign promises are things people want.
The only silver lining is that the higher vote totals nationally will make it easier to analyze future ridings to target where there's even a remote chance of winning (though admittedly, there's likely not many).
The little bit of poking around that I did unfortunately showed that some of the ridings in Sask and AB where the PPC was in double digits, the CPC candidate often won with 60%+ of the vote
In first past the post, if you don't have 51% of the vote in one riding, it doesn't matter if you have 40% of the vote in EVERY riding, you get no seats, no representation. If those 800k votes were highly concentrated, there might have been a risk of a seat or two being taken. But spread out? All it signals is a protest vote.
Maybe the people in charge should go onto the PPC's website, and look at their campaign promises. Because Macleans certainly hasn't done that. If PPC's getting votes, maybe their campaign promises are things people want.
The only silver lining is that the higher vote totals nationally will make it easier to analyze future ridings to target where there's even a remote chance of winning (though admittedly, there's likely not many).
The little bit of poking around that I did unfortunately showed that some of the ridings in Sask and AB where the PPC was in double digits, the CPC candidate often won with 60%+ of the vote