It's the vote splitting among the left. That gave the Conservatives a majority even though they only had 40% of the popular vote. I was opposed to the idea of strategic voting but honestly had I known that the Conservatives were going to take away my riding from the Liberals (NDP were a distant 3rd here), I would have voted Liberal. Projectdemocracy.ca said my riding was a safe Liberal seat but they ended up to be dead wrong. Every single poll in my riding leading up to the election turned out to be wrong. Epic fail. Even though I hate Ignatieff, Layton would have been the leader of the left coalition anyway. Now that Ignatieff was defeated in his own seat, hopefully the Liberals can find a competent leader to replace him. Some people will say that Layton is a spoiler and that people shouldn't have voted NDP because that split the vote. I don't necessarily think so. It depends on your riding. In my riding and many others I'm sure, NDP played spoiler. But nationwide, The NDP was the more dominant left-wing party this time.
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