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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