Road to majority government smoothly paved for Conservatives

The Conservative Party vote has been the most efficient in the last two elections and likely will be in October as well. During the last campaign, the party converted 35,200 votes, on average, into one seat, whereas both the NDP (43,800) and especially Liberal (81,900) vote was less efficient.

One hundred and seventy seats in the soon-to-be renovated House of Commons is the minimum number required by one political party to form a majority government.

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