
The likelihood, in short, is that the Greens would take a greater share of the vote, as well as the seats. It is that Green supporters would never again have to fear that by voting Green they were “wasting” their vote, throwing it away on a candidate with no hope of winning neither would they feel obliged to vote “strategically,” that is for a party they liked less, in order to prevent a party they detested from slipping in. It isn’t just that the party’s seat count would more accurately reflect its share of the vote: 15, in the latest exercise, rather than the three it actually received. politics, opening the way for many more such policy gains in future. elections are conducted holds the promise of transforming the Greens into a major, and permanent, force in B.C. And wisely so: a concession on this pipeline or that dam is one thing, but a fundamental change in how B.C. Intriguingly, the party leader, Andrew Weaver, has been much less adamant on other issues, including the party’s signature environmental concerns.

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