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Originally Posted by carisear

^^ you should never worry about so-called vote splitting or strategic voting. always vote for YOUR ideal choice.

from 18 to about 30, I never voted for a winning candidate.

What my vote did, over time, was show a growing trend towards a certain ideology, which the governing party could not ignore.

Take the Green party for example. By a significant population voting for them, even though they had no chance in hell of winning, it made other parties change their environmental policies, due to the fact that it was 'suddenly' a hot topic for Canadians.

To your last point, I'd argue the exact opposite has actually occurred with the Conservative Party and Harper.

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