The Conservatives protect their right flank, at the cost of losing the centre
to 14. And we saw it again Monday night: an average increase of five points in their share of the popular vote.
Here again we saw a repeat of Mississauga-Lakeshore. As before, the Conservatives benefited from the collapse of the People’s Party of Canada, which saw its average vote share cut in half.
This is the sort of riding the Conservatives used to be competitive in – the sort of riding they need to win to form a government, as in fact they did in 2011. They stood to benefit, what is more, from a certain lack of enthusiasm among local Liberals for their candidate, Ben Carr .
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