A Coalition Government
People who voted for the Conservatives: 10,493,047
People who voted for the Liberals: 7,349,977
People who voted for the NDP: 5,065,144
People who voted for the Liberals & NDP combined: 12,415,121
People who voted for the Bloc Quebecois: 2,778,758
Combined, the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc represent 15,193,879.
Total votes for the smaller parties (Christian Heritage, Communist, Greens, Independents etc):
2,213,995
Total votes that weren’t for the Conservatives:
17,407,874
A Coalition Government therefore would be democratically representative, despite what Stephen Harper has said.
Note: An earlier posting that you may have seen had methodological errors which I’ve since corrected.
Source: Elections Canada results. Some numbers are still listed as preliminary. My downloaded spreadsheet from Elections Canada; and my modified spreadsheet listing only the parties and the votes.
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