How would you have voted: Canadian edition

[Santander]

1867: Conservative
1872: Conservative
1874: Conservative
1878: Conservative
1882: Conservative
1887: Conservative
1891: Conservative
1896: Conservative
1900: Conservative
1904: Conservative
1908: Conservative
1911: Conservative
1917: Unionist
1921: Conservative
1925: Conservative
1926: Conservative
1930: Conservative
1935: Conservative
1940: Conservative
1945: Progressive Conservative
1949: Liberal
1953: Liberal
1957: Progressive Conservative
1958: Progressive Conservative
1962: Progressive Conservative
1963: Progressive Conservative
1965: Progressive Conservative
1968: Progressive Conservative
1972: Progressive Conservative
1974: Progressive Conservative
1979: Progressive Conservative
1980: Progressive Conservative
1984: Liberal
1988: Liberal
1993: Liberal
1997: Progressive Conservative
2000: Progressive Conservative
2004: Liberal
2006: Liberal
2008: Liberal
2011: NDP
2015: Conservative

[Crumpets]

I haven't done this one yet, mostly because I know relatively little about Canadian political history. But I'll give it a shot. Obviously a lot would depend on my particular area and strategic voting.

1867: Liberal
1872: Liberal
1874: Liberal
1878: Liberal
1882: Liberal
1887: Liberal
1891: Liberal
1896: Liberal
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1911: Liberal
1917: Liberal
1921: Progressive
1925: Liberal
1926: Liberal
1930: Progressive
1935: Cooperative Commonwealth
1940: Liberal
1945: Cooperative Commonwealth
1949: Liberal
1953: Cooperative Commonwealth
1957: Cooperative Commonwealth
1958: Cooperative Commonwealth
1962: New Democratic
1963: Liberal
1965: Liberal
1968: Liberal
1972: Liberal
1974: Liberal
1979: New Democratic
1980: Liberal
1984: New Democratic
1988: New Democratic
1993: Liberal
1997: New Democratic
2000: Liberal
2004: New Democratic
2006: New Democratic
2008: New Democratic
2011: New Democratic
2015: Liberal

[SATW]

1949: St. Laurent, Liberal Party
1953: St. Laurent, Liberal Party
1957: St. Laurent, Liberal Party
1958: Diefenbaker, Progressive Conservative Party
1962: Pearson, Liberal Party
1963: Pearson, Liberal Party
1965: Pearson, Liberal Party
1968: Stanfield, Progressive Conservative Party
1972: Stanfield, Progressive Conservative Party
1974: Stanfield, Progressive Conservative Party
1979: Clark, Progressive Conservative Party
1980: Trudeau, Liberal Party
1984: Mulroney, Progressive Conservative Party
1988: Mulroney, Progressive Conservative Party
1993: Manning, Reform Party
1997: Manning, Reform Party
2000: Day, Canadian Alliance
2004: Harper, Conservative Party
2006: Harper, Conservative Party
2008: Harper, Conservative Party
2011: Harper, Conservative Party
2015: Harper, Conservative Party


- I like St. Laurent, so easy votes each of those times, including in 1957 over Diefenbaker.
- Diefenbaker was semi-decent during the Eisenhower years in the U.S., so I'd vote for the ProgCons in 1958.
- Diefenbaker was horrible literally anytime after Eisenhower left office, somewhat reluctant votes for the Liberals. Pearson's econ policy was hardly my cup of tea, but his staunch christian zionism is awesome, so I feel content about these votes (Diefenbaker was pretty good on Israel, too, but his inability to get NORAD, among other things, through surely would've gotten me to vote against him)
- I hate Clark and Stanfield (hindsight...yeee yeee), but I really don't have many options, so I'd hold my nose for Stanfield each time and for Clark in '79 (but would, for the only time, support a Trudeau in '80).
- 1984-onwards...all easy and happy votes for me.

[DC Al Fine]

I have to ask, why does the NDP get your vote in '93

[Clark Kent]

1867: Liberal
1872: Liberal
1874: Liberal
1878: Liberal
1882: Liberal
1887: Liberal
1891: Liberal
1896: Liberal
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1911: Liberal
1917: Unionist
1921: Conservative
1925: Conservative
1926: Conservative
1930: Conservative
1935: Liberal
1940: Liberal
1945: Progressive Conservative
1949: Liberal
1953: Liberal
1957: Progressive Conservative
1958: Progressive Conservative
1962: Progressive Conservative
1963: Progressive Conservative
1965: Progressive Conservative
1968: Progressive Conservative
1972: Progressive Conservative
1974: Progressive Conservative
1979: Progressive Conservative
1980: Progressive Conservative
1984: Progressive Conservative
1988: Progressive Conservative
1993: Reform
1997: Reform
2000: Canadian Alliance
2004: Conservative
2006: Conservative
2008: Conservative
2011: Conservative
2015: Conservative

[Phony Moderate]

Ironically, I probably would've never voted for the Liberals under either of the Trudeaus yet I probably would have voted for the Chretien-led Liberals at least once.

[evergreenarbor]

1867: Liberal
1872: Liberal
1874: Liberal
1878: Liberal
1882: Liberal
1887: Liberal
1891: Liberal
1896: Liberal
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1911: Liberal
1917: Laurier Liberal
1921: Progressive
1925: Progressive
1926: Liberal
1930: Liberal
1935: CCF
1940: CCF
1945: CCF
1949: CCF
1953: CCF
1957: CCF
1958: CCF
1962: Liberal
1963: Liberal
1965: Liberal
1968: Liberal
1972: Liberal
1974: Liberal
1979: Liberal
1980: Liberal
1984: NDP
1988: NDP
1993: Liberal
1997: NDP
2000: NDP
2004: NDP
2006: NDP
2008: NDP
2011: NDP
2015: Liberal
Next: Liberal

[Dr. MB]

1867: Liberal
1872: Liberal
1874: Liberal
1878: Liberal
1882: Liberal
1887: Liberal
1891: Liberal
1896: Liberal
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1911: Liberal
1917: Liberal
1921: Progressive
1925: Progressive
1926: Progressive
1930: Progressive
1935: CCF/Social Credit
1940: CCF/Social Credit
1945: CCF/Social Credit
1949: CCF/Social Credit
1953: CCF/Social Credit
1957: CCF/Social Credit
1958: NDP
1962: NDP
1963: NDP
1965: NDP
1968: NDP
1972: NDP
1974: NDP
1979: NDP
1980: NDP
1984: NDP
1988: NDP
1993: NDP
1997: NDP
2000: NDP
2004: NDP
2006: NDP
2008: NDP
2011: NDP
2015: NDP
Next: NDP

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

1867: Conservative
1872: Conservative
1874: Conservative
1878: Conservative
1882: Conservative
1887: Conservative
1891: Conservative
1896: Conservative
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1911: Conservative
1917: Conservative
1921: Liberal
1925: Liberal
1926: Liberal
1930: Liberal
1935: Liberal
1940: Liberal
1945: Liberal
1949: Liberal
1953: Liberal
1957: Liberal
1958: Liberal
1962: Liberal
1965: Liberal
1968: Liberal
1972: Liberal
1974: Liberal
1979: Liberal
1980: Liberal
1984: Liberal
1988: PC
1993: Liberal
1997: Liberal
2000: Liberal
2004: Liberal
2006: Liberal
2008: Liberal
2011: Liberal

1988 is a PC vote because of the free trade agreement.

[IceAgeComing]

If Free Trade is so important to you in 1988 as to vote for the Tories; why then do you switch from the pro-free trade Liberals to the protectionist Tories in 1911?  I mean if that's a make or break issue for you...

For me it'd depend on the riding that I lived in but in general terms it'd be something like this:

1867-1911: Liberals, unless a Labour candidate was running locally.  My knowledge of this era of Canadian history is a little iffy though
1917: The Opposition Liberals
1921-1935: Its between the Liberals and the Progressives, I'm not entirely sure.  If there was a Labour candidate with a chance to win I'd vote for them.
1935-1962: CCF (I mean how can I not support a party that had "eradicating capitalism" in their initial party manifesto!  Its nice to have an actually left wing party available for this one)
1962-Present: NDP

There's likely be a fair few anti-Tory tactical votes in there in reality, depending on the election and how much I could stomach supporting the Liberals.  I might actually have voted Liberal at a few times post-CCF formation: their legacy of the Pearson and early Trudeau governments is pretty good and I may well have voted for them a few times (although Pearson only had minority governments, so doing so much might have been a condition of getting NDP support, I don't know) and at the worst period for the NDP between 1993-2004 I might have voted for the Liberals, as lots of NDP supporters especially in Ontario seemed to do during that time period.  In Quebec I dunno; perhaps a few Bloc votes in there but I doubt it since they, eh, aren't that great of a party.  The NDP were a joke there pre-2011 with the exception of a few localised places in a couple of elections which makes me think that I'd probably have voted Liberal more.

Provincially I'd probably be NDP in the majority of provinces; certainly all of those where they actually are a vaguely powerful force.  In Quebec who really knows: the three major parties are all awful and I could never support any of them so I'd be one of those weird people who support Quebec Solidaire; and who knows about the Atlantic Provinces generally; they tend to have very weird provincial politics and parties that sometimes tend to have very odd positions on some issues - like in Nova Scotia last May you had the Liberals standing on an anti-public sector union platform and wanting to start imposing wage agreements on them, with the Nova Scotia PCs (and the NDP naturally) taking the sides of the Unions - or at least favouring a much more conciliatory position.

What makes Canada so interesting for me from an elections perspective is the almost total disconnect between Federal and Provincial Politics and the affect that this can have: outside of the NDP (where the provincial and federal parties are one and the same) and the four Atlantic Liberal Parties all of the provincial parties are organisationally separate from the Federal parties and this can lead to very odd politics: like the popular Progressive Conservative Premier of Newfoundland telling his supporters to tactically vote against the Federal Conservatives under Harper, or the fact that the BC Liberals are the main centre-right party in British Columbia and tend to get more support from federal Conservatives than from federal Liberals, and other such things.  Add in the fact that Canadian voters tend to be very elastic and you get very wild swings of opinion at times, and parties coming from nowhere to win whilst others go from being dominant to almost being wiped out and you get a very interesting country to keep an eye on.

[Newo1981]

1945: CCF
1949: Liberal
1953 Liberal
1957 Liberal
1958 Liberal
1962 Liberal
1963 Progressive Conservative
1965 Liberal
1968 Liberal
1972 Liberal
1974 Liberal
1979 Liberal
1980 Liberal
1984 Progressive Conservative
1988 Progressive Conservative
1993 Liberal
1997 Liberal
2000 Liberal
2004 NDP
2006 NDP
2008 Liberal
2011 NDP
2015 Liberal

[Elcaspar]

1867: Liberal
1872: Liberal
1874: Liberal
1878: Liberal
1882: Liberal
1887: Liberal
1891: Liberal
1896: Patrons of Industry
1900: Labour
1904: Labour
1908: Labour
1911: Labour
1917: Labour
1921: Progressive/Labour
1925: Progressive/Labour
1926: Progressive/Labour
1930: Progressive/Labour
1935: Co-operative Commonwealth
1940: Co-operative Commonwealth
1945: Co-operative Commonwealth
1949: Co-operative Commonwealth
1953: Co-operative Commonwealth
1957: Co-operative Commonwealth
1958: Co-operative Commonwealth
1962: New Democratic
1963: New Democratic
1965: New Democratic
1968: New Democratic
1972: New Democratic
1974: New Democratic
1979: New Democratic
1980: New Democratic
1984: New Democratic
1988: New Democratic
1993: New Democratic
1997: New Democratic
2000: New Democratic
2004: New Democratic
2006: New Democratic
2008: New Democratic
2011: New Democratic
2015: New Democratic

[UnselfconsciousTeff]

1867: Conservative
1872: Conservative
1874: Conservative
1878: Conservative
1882: Conservative
1887: Conservative
1891: Conservative
1896: Conservative
1900: Conservative
1904: Conservative
1908: Conservative
1911: Conservative
1917: Unionist
1921: Liberal
1925: Liberal
1926: Liberal
1930: Liberal
1935: Liberal
1940: Liberal
1945: Liberal
1949: Liberal
1953: Liberal
1957: Liberal
1958: Liberal
1962: Liberal
1963: Liberal
1965: Liberal
1968: Socred
1972: Socred
1974: Socred
1979: PC
1980: PC
1984: PC
1988: PC
1993: Reform
1997: Reform
2000: Canadian Alliance
2004: Conservative
2006: Conservative
2008: Conservative
2011: Conservative
2015: Conservative
2019: Conservative (hindsight People's)

[VPH]

Because my knowledge of Canadian history and politics changed so much over the course of undergrad, I'm just going to redo my whole thing.
1867: Conservative
1872: Conservative
1874: Conservative
1878: Conservative
1882: Conservative
1887: Conservative
1891: Conservative
1896: Liberal
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1911: Conservative
1917: Unionist
1921: Progressive
1925: Liberal
1926: Liberal
1930: Liberal
1935: Liberal
1940: Liberal
1945: Liberal
1949: Liberal
1953: Liberal
1957: CCF
1958: Liberal
1962: Liberal
1965: Liberal
1968: Liberal
1972: Liberal
1974: Liberal
1979: Liberal
1980: Liberal
1984: New Democratic Party
1988: Liberal
1993: Liberal
1997: Liberal
2000: Liberal
2004: Liberal
2006: Liberal
2008: Liberal
2011: New Democratic Party
2015: Liberal
2019: Liberal actual vote!

[KaiserDave]

I'll stick to modern times for my frame of reference

1988: NDP
1993: Liberal
1997: Liberal
2000: Liberal
2004: NDP
2006: NDP
2008: NDP
2011: NDP
2015: NDP
2019: Green or NDP