Ranked ballots could have given Liberals majority: prof
In 2025, Miljan says a ranked ballot may have helped the Liberals eke out a majority — the party landed at 169 seats, falling just three short of a majority government.
“I don’t think it would have made a big difference, except probably in the few ridings where there were three-way splits, where you might have gotten a few more NDP seats and probably equally more Liberal seats,” she said. “In that respect, you would have had a Liberal majority, most likely.”
That’s making a lot of assumptions which I don’t think are accurate. We know strategic voting is a thing. While I don’t think we have numbers of how many vote strategically, I think it’s safe to say most of them went to the Liberals given their advantage in the pre-election polls.
I’m not saying that the Liberals would have some poorly in RCV, but we can’t just assume everyone’s vote was also their first choice. And then we’d also have to get into how a different system would change the campaign, etc.