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Counting seats, not votes, has Liberals sitting pretty

The NDP's decline and the Conservatives' piling up of votes in their strongholds has the Liberal Party in a strong position to protect or even add seats in the election, writes pollster Greg Lyle.

Opinion
BY GREG LYLE
September 9, 2019

Opinion | BY GREG LYLE | September 9, 2019

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Counting seats, not votes, has Liberals sitting pretty

The NDP's decline and the Conservatives' piling up of votes in their strongholds has the Liberal Party in a strong position to protect or even add seats in the election, writes pollster Greg Lyle.

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Freeland’s chaos-inducing resignation brings ever more uncertainty in the face of Canada’s trade emergency

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Liberals look like a ‘party on autopilot’ headed for ‘a car crash,’ say political players

Liberals 10 points behind in the 34 ridings that helped bring them to power in 2015 and have kept Conservatives out ever since, according to a new poll

Liberals to target the 34 ridings they lost in 2019, ‘gateway’ to a majority, say top strategists and veteran Grit insiders

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Scare tactics still a winning strategy for Grits, Tories

Liberals look like a ‘party on autopilot’ headed for ‘a car crash,’ say political players

Liberals look like a ‘party on autopilot’ headed for ‘a car crash,’ say political players

Liberals 10 points behind in the 34 ridings that helped bring them to power in 2015 and have kept Conservatives out ever since, according to a new poll

Liberals 10 points behind in the 34 ridings that helped bring them to power in 2015 and have kept Conservatives out ever since, according to a new poll

Liberals to target the 34 ridings they lost in 2019, ‘gateway’ to a majority, say top strategists and veteran Grit insiders

Liberals to target the 34 ridings they lost in 2019, ‘gateway’ to a majority, say top strategists and veteran Grit insiders

Polling evidence favours Liberal victory: Lyle

Polling evidence favours Liberal victory: Lyle

Scare tactics still a winning strategy for Grits, Tories

Scare tactics still a winning strategy for Grits, Tories

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Counting seats, not votes, has Liberals sitting pretty

The NDP's decline and the Conservatives' piling up of votes in their strongholds has the Liberal Party in a strong position to protect or even add seats in the election, writes pollster Greg Lyle.

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