According To New seat Projections, There Is A Possibility

Of Liberals Forming A Majority Government!

The party needs 170 seats to form a majority and right now, Vox Pop Labs, which is providing seat projections for a French publication, predicts the Liberals will get 143. But Clifton van der Linden with VoxPop says at the high end of their estimate, the Grits could take 175 seats.

OTTAWA – Could Canadians give the second coming of Trudeau and the Liberal party the PMO’s Chair on Monday?

As the Liberals surge in the polls, for the first time in this campaign there is a possibility of the Grits forming a majority government, according to new seat projections.

The party needs 170 seats to form a majority and right now, Vox Pop Labs, which is providing seat projections for a French publication L’Actualite, predicts the Liberals will get 143. But Clifton van der Linden with VoxPop says at the high end of their estimate, the Grits could take 175 seats.

“[That’s at] the remote end of the realm of possibilities, based on our forecast,” he told News 1130.

For a majority to happen, watch out for ridings such as Vancouver-South, Surrey-Centre and Surrey-Newton all going to Liberals.

Van Der Linden points out the race isn’t over yet, and we could still see some shifts in support for the parties. “This has been a very volatile campaign, if you look at the trends over time.

In the Vox Pop predictions, the Conservatives are in second with an estimated 125 seats and the NDP is in third with 64.

If the Liberals do pull off a victory in the election, it would be the first time in Canadian history a party has risen from third party status to form government.

Trudeau, sensing momentum, called on Canadians to vote for a majority Liberal government on Oct. 19, as his party is enjoying a stable lead over the Conservatives in the polls.

The move marks a shift in the Liberal strategy in the dying days of the campaign, showcasing confidence that Canadians will not react negatively to the possibility of handing a stable, four-year term to Trudeau.

“It’s obvious we want to form a strong government and deliver what is in our platform to Canadians,” he told reporters after touring Mohawk College in Hamilton. “Am I asking Canadians to vote for us? Yes. Am I asking them to vote for us across the country? Yes. Am I asking them for a majority government? Yes.”

Asked about the possibility that he would form a coalition with the NDP to defeat a Conservative minority, Mr. Trudeau said he preferred informal arrangements between parties instead of a negotiated deal.

“What Canadians don’t want is politicians organizing backroom deals around who actually gets to wield power,” he said.

Conservatives need a majority or bust as they don’t have any dance partners and in an event of a minority with even if the Conservatives get more seats than the Liberals and NDP, they can’t form a government as the other two parties have already said they will defeat any Stephen Harper led Conservative government.