Comments on: Results http://bc2009.com The race for Victoria Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:36:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://bc2009.com/results/comment-page-1/#comment-2230 Mike Tue, 26 May 2009 21:42:12 +0000 http://bc2009.com/?page_id=2712#comment-2230 In her concession speech the night of the election, Carole James claimed that the NDP had received their greatest support in 23 years. I went back and looked at some of the previous elections, and there were a few things I wanted to point out: 1. NDP actually received more votes in 2005 than in 2009. 2. The NDP actually won their greatest proportion of the vote in 1979 (46%) when they lost to the Socreds under Bennett Jr. 3. The NDP won their greatest number of votes back in 1986 (824,544) when they lost in a "landslide" to the Socreds under Vander Zalm. 4. Listed below are the election years since the first NDP win in order of popular vote received by NDP. NDP wins in bold: <i>Year NDP% Seats (Seat%)</i> 1979 45.99 26/57 (46) 1983 44.94 22/57 (39) 1986 42.60 22/69 (32) 2009 41.97 35/85 (41) 2005 41.52 33/79 (42) <b>1991 40.71 51/75 (68) 1996 39.45 39/75 (52) 1972 39.59 38/55 (69)</b> 1975 39.16 18/55 (33) 2001 21.56 2/79 (3) The 5 best elections for the NDP (in terms of vote %) were losses! 3 of the 5 <b>worst</b> elections were wins (all except being thrown out in 1975 and 2001)! Clearly the NDP can't win unless the centre-right vote is divided, but this still really shocked me. In her concession speech the night of the election, Carole James claimed that the NDP had received their greatest support in 23 years. I went back and looked at some of the previous elections, and there were a few things I wanted to point out:

1. NDP actually received more votes in 2005 than in 2009.
2. The NDP actually won their greatest proportion of the vote in 1979 (46%) when they lost to the Socreds under Bennett Jr.
3. The NDP won their greatest number of votes back in 1986 (824,544) when they lost in a “landslide” to the Socreds under Vander Zalm.
4. Listed below are the election years since the first NDP win in order of popular vote received by NDP. NDP wins in bold:

Year NDP% Seats (Seat%)
1979 45.99 26/57 (46)
1983 44.94 22/57 (39)
1986 42.60 22/69 (32)
2009 41.97 35/85 (41)
2005 41.52 33/79 (42)
1991 40.71 51/75 (68)
1996 39.45 39/75 (52)
1972 39.59 38/55 (69)
1975 39.16 18/55 (33)
2001 21.56 2/79 (3)

The 5 best elections for the NDP (in terms of vote %) were losses! 3 of the 5 worst elections were wins (all except being thrown out in 1975 and 2001)! Clearly the NDP can’t win unless the centre-right vote is divided, but this still really shocked me.

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