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Election Predictions

Conservative Minority: 35.71%
Record low turnout: 28.57%
Conservative Majority: 14.29%
Some other party wins!: 14.29%
Highest turnout since Martin: 7.14%
Liberal Majority: 0.00%
Liberal Minority: 0.00%
A Tie!: 0.00%
Total Votes: 14

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Some oddities about the electoral system in 2011

The whimsies of Canada's single member plurality electoral system produced some rather strange results in the 2011 election. For example, Quebec voters contributed 36% of the total votes cast for the NDP across Canada, but Quebec MPs will comprise 57% of the NDP's national caucus.

The Bloc Quebecois suffered a battering akin to the Progressive Conservatives in 1993. The BQ's seats were reduced by almost 92%. While almost 1 in 4 Quebecois voted BQ, only 1 in 20 of Quebec's MPs are BQ. (It should be noted that the BQ had previously benefited from the electoral system, winning a far higher share of the seats than votes in every election since 1993).

The Conservatives increased their share of the Ontario vote by 5 percentage points but saw their share of the seats grow by 20 percentage points.

The NDP increased their share of the vote in Manitoba, but their number of seats was cut in half.

The NDP set a record of sorts for 21st century elections, in winning almost a third of the votes in Saskatchewan without winning a single seat.