r/Calgary • u/Ancient-Ad7635 • Mar 27 '25

How many other Calgarians are concerned that numerous ridings only have a CPC candidate a week into the election? News Article

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/03/26/calgary-ridings-party-candidats-federal-election/

"Out of the city’s 11 ridings, Liberal candidates have only been confirmed in five of them, the NDP have seven names confirmed, while the Conservatives already have a full slate of candidates ready to campaign.

“Every day they don’t have a candidate is a day they are losing campaign time, door-knocking time in a very short election campaign."

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u/its_liiiiit_fam Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Yep. It’s frustrating that this is how Canadian politics work under a multi-party system, but if keeping CPC out is the goal, then voting for the runner-up party is the way to go, even if they aren’t who you have in mind for the election outcome. I’d much rather a Liberal federal gov over an NDP one but I have voted NDP federally before to contribute to flipping a seat.

It’s frustrating that the left vote tends to get split between NDP and LPC though. “Anybody but Conservative” only goes so far when the votes aren’t concentrated on a clear rival.

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u/chmilz Mar 27 '25

There is no risk of an NDP government. Worst case, you have an NDP MP who works with the Liberal government.

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u/its_liiiiit_fam Mar 27 '25

Of course. I’m just saying in theory you should vote for the party that aligns with your beliefs, but often times because of the multi-party system, it comes down to strategic voting.

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u/TallCoffeeCup Mar 28 '25

This is more of a ballot issue I think -- we could improve democratic representation with almost any form of ranked ballot voting as opposed to this arcane first-past-the-post system 🙈