The mother of all vote-split elections occurred in 1996 when the NDP government was re-elected despite getting almost 40,000 fewer votes than the BC Liberals province-wide.
BC United leader Kevin Falcon is releasing more details about negotiations with the BC Conservatives aimed at preventing a vote split -- and how they fell apart. Legislative bureau chief Keith Baldrey reports. – May 24, 2024There is a lot of talk about potential “vote splitting” in the upcoming provincial election set for October and given the impact that could have on the election outcome, it is worth examining our previous experiences with it.
This anomaly occurred because the upstart Reform Party of BC took almost 10 per cent of the vote and two seats, and it can be reasonably argued that most of those voters would otherwise have voted BC Liberal had the Reform Party not existed. Another vote-split election occurred in 1991 when the NDP likely won at least nine seats because the Social Credit Party and the upstart BC Liberal Party split about 57 per cent of the voters. The 2017 election, which elected three Green Party MLAs, wasn’t really a typical vote split result because it was far from clear which party lost the most voters to the Greens.
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