The effects of this are not small. The average Conservative candidate elected on April 28 received 33,348 votes; the average Liberal candidate, 30,181 votes; the average Bloc candidate, 25,120 votes; the average NDP candidate, 20,601 votes, that number being pulled down by its win in Nunavut, where just 2,945 votes sent Inuk lawyer Lori Idlout back to Ottawa for a second term. The NDP’s Gord Johns needed more than 10 times that many votes form to win Courtenay—Alberni.
