Tuesday, May 18, 2010

How Many Votes To Take All Liberal Seats?

Here is an interesting question, how many Liberal voters would the Tories need to convert to take every single seat that the grits have in the House of Commons? The smallest number required can be found by taking all Liberals seats, subtract the sum total of how many votes behind all the Tory candidates were, and you should have an answer. Remember, each vote flipped counts as 2 because when one goes down and the other goes up at the same time, that is a 2 vote swing (ie: if you are 100 votes behind, you only need to convert 51 voters to take the lead).

I will not share the answer until the end of my poll, but feel free to count at home if you are curious as to the smallest number of Canadian voters that must be converted to completely wipe out the Liberal Party from our House of Commons.

3 comments:

  1. "smallest number of Canadian voters that must be converted to completely wipe out the Liberal Party from our House of Commons"

    ..oh how a boy can dream!!!

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  2. Let's be generous.
    77 seats times 5000 vote margin of victory divided by 2 equals 192500.
    So I'll take the next highest for margin and pick 286419.

    Nice idea but how do you get those voters?
    Liberals have a bedrock of about 25% don't they?
    I think the key is that if you scratch a Liberal you don't always find an NDPer. So play up the coalition and the spectre of Jack Layton in cabinet as finance minister.
    You have to polarize the Liberal voter into absolutely left or right.
    Or demoralize them into staying home.

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  3. Heard on Power Play today, rumors are Charest is stepping down by June....Maybe he is going to replace Iffy?

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