Washington State with B.C. parties

[King of Kensington]

Would be interesting to see what Washington State politics would look like with a party system similar to B.C., with the labor-based NDP, the "free enterprise" coalition of the Liberals and maybe smaller Green and populist conservative parties as well.

[Vega]

I think the majority of Democratic politicians would be Liberals. It's hard to imagine though that elements of the social right would be part of the same party, maybe they would do their own thing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think the majority of Democratic politicians would be Liberals. It's hard to imagine though that elements of the social right would be part of the same party, maybe they would do their own thing.

Wow are you familiar with BC at all?

[Asian Nazi]

Assuming similar cultural development to BC (rather than just having BC parties transplanted to modern WA) then you would have the NDP performing well in the coastal cities (Seattle, Bellingham, Everett, Tacoma, Olympia, etc.) and winning seats on the Olympic Peninsula + Grays Harbor area.  NDP would probably also perform strongly in the more working class suburbs of Seattle and Tacoma as well as central Spokane and inner Vancouver.  San Juan County would be like parts of Vancouver Island --- NDP/Green swing.  Liberals would probably win the rest.

[RI]

I would think WA would lean more heavily toward the Liberals than BC does. Depending on how well the Greens do, I could see even King County regularly voting Liberal.

[King of Kensington]

Yeah a "B.C. party system" may not work in Washington given that the weight of BC-style class politics (found on much of the island and interior) is smaller.

Would the NDP ever be able to take a majority of the legislative seats?

And if the Liberals governed forever and the NDP wasn't seen as much of a threat, you'd probably have a stronger rural populist presence.