From taboo to tactic: How strategic voting could shake up this election [View all]

Alvin Finkel still remembers the day he was kicked out of the NDP.

The lifelong New Democrat from Edmonton had been running a website during Alberta's 2012 provincial election to consolidate progressive votes behind certain Liberal, NDP and Alberta Party candidates.

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The argument was simple: if left-of-centre urban voters concentrated their ballots behind one person, rather than splitting between three parties, they stood a better chance of winning.

It's a much-maligned practice known as strategic voting — and among smaller political parties, it's borderline heresy.

"All parties have this notion that you're supposed to park your brains at the front door and assume that your party could win," he said.

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I've always voted strategically, with few exceptions, in order to try and keep out the Cons no matter where I have lived. It is rare for me to be able to vote for a candidate instead of voting against one. If the NDP candidate has a better chance of winning than the Liberal one then I vote NDP and vice versa.