I’m not entirely sure that was the case: the effin’ Tories won a majority with slightly under 40% of the popular vote. Roughly 53% of the vote went to the NDP, Liberals and Greens, with the rest going to the BQ. Our bloody first-past-the-post riding system needs reform badly. There was no way in Hell to form a Centre-Left coalition, yet that was where the majority of the voters were to be found.
Hell, we’ve seen this in Québec elections often enough, starting with Lesage’s loss (with a plurality of the vote) in 1966.
