Strategic Voting:British Columbia
In British Columbia ridings many of the races are fairly competitive. Often the Conservatives have won because of a split among progressive voters. Choosing to support the most popular progressive candidate ie Liberal, NDP or Green would defeat the Tories in the ridings of Burnaby- Douglas, Burnaby- New Westminster, Cariboo- Prince George, Esquimalt- Juan de Fuca, Fleetwood- Port Kells, Kamloops- Thompson- Cariboo, Nanaimo- Alberny, New Westminster- Coaquitlam, Okanagan- Shuswap, Pitt Meadows- Maple ridge- Mission, Port Moody- Westwood- Port Coaquitlam, Saanich- Gulf Islands, South Surrey- White Rock- Cloverdale, Surrey North, Vancouver Island North, Vancouver Quadra,and West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast- Sea to Sky Country. Check your riding to see the best bet for defeating the Tories.
Especially important is to defeat Minister Gary Lunn in Saanich- Gulf islands, who strongly supports oil at the expense of the environment and who regards nuclear safety as an after thought.
Until we get proportional representation and one vote really does count, strategic voting and vote swapping initiatives have to be part of the environmentalist's political tool box.
2 comments:
Hi Adam, have you heard about Pair Vote? Pairing your vote is a form of strategic voting where someone casts your preferred party vote in another riding where it will count, in exchange for voting for their preferred party in your riding.
You could vote for a non-Conservative candidate in your riding, in exchange for them voting, say Green if that is your preferred choice.
So, this way you don't have to compromise your vote choice to be strategic. Nice eh?
www.votepair.ca
Hi Gerry,
That's a great idea; I've already pursued it through the Facebook vote-swap site.
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