Strategic voting helped Tories while punishing Wildrose
Posted Apr 26, 2012 7:56 am.
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A new poll has shed some light as to why support for the Wildrose party shrivelled in the final days of the Alberta election campaign.
Poll after poll leading up to the vote on Monday, April 23rd, suggested the Wildrose was poised to end 41 years of Progressive Conservative rule.
In the end, the Alison Redford Tories won the party’s 12th straight majority, relegating the Wildrose to the opposition benches.
A post-mortem poll found 40 per cent of voters didn’t make up their mind as to who to vote for until the final days of the campaign.
Over 25 per cent of those who voted PC say they did so strategically to make sure another party didn’t win.
The Vice President of Leger Marketing, Ian Large, says in the end voters chose PC over monumental change.
The poll did reveal that more than 30 per cent of Albertans did consider voting for Danielle Smith, but almost as many changed their minds because they didn’t agree with the Wildrose platform.
