Liberal Party Victory Analysis

In 2015 the Liberals engineered one of the greatest political comebacks of a generation going from thirty-four seats in parliament to a stunning one hundred and eight four, despite the fact they were trailing in third place when the campaign began (Andrew-Gee, 2015). A victory of this margin deserves to be analyzed if for the mere fact that the Liberal Party will use the victory as a mandate to enact their agenda. This paper will argue that the Liberal Party’s victory was the result of a adept campaign that was able to capitalize on the advantages given to it. This paper will be organized in the following way. First it will describe how and why the citizens of Canada were tired of the Conservative party that led to this change. Second it will argue that the relative similarity of the parties made the pragmatic voting easier. Third it will show how this pragmatic decision coupled by an influx of new un-aligned voters allowed the Liberal party to achieve its victory. Finally it will discuss how the electoral system in Canada influenced the Liberal victory. Going into the election season Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister at the time, was incredibly unpopular with 63% of Canadians disliking him compared to around 40% for the other major party …show more content…
However, when the votes were cast it seemed much of the NDP support withered in the final days as the Liberal Party took up the mantle of the left and took over Parliament. There are a number of reasons this may have been the case, and given the lack of in depth research yet it is impossible to say definitively what it was that caused this shift, however we can still look at past elections, and extrapolate from there using patterns and