Debates are over. Progressive Vote Guide is here.

Data Shows launches Progressive Vote Guide, a tool showing where a strategic NDP vote defeats Poilievre's candidate and where to vote your values because the Conservatives aren’t competitive.

While the United States government takes a terrible lurch toward the extreme right many of us are reflecting on Canadian identity and what has made Canada different and better than the state to our south.

A big part of the answer is the NDP. The United States has no equivalent party, and that has made a huge difference.

Though it has never won federal power, NDP advocacy led to universal healthcare, Canada Pension Plan, $10 childcare, national dental care, pharmacare and a strike-breaking ban. These reforms have made Canadians stronger and are icons of Canadian differentness and identity.

Tonight: I’ll be on Toronto CP24’s post-debate panel from 9:00 to 10:00pm. Tune in…

In the current campaign, Jagmeet Singh has advanced new innovative ideas like national rent control, mortgages through the CMHC, national nurse-to-patient staffing standards, completing pharmacare and securing our Arctic waterways.

Introducing Progressive Vote Guide

It’s clear many voters want to vote NDP, but to do it strategically, ensuring it in no way inadvertently aids the local Poilievre candidate. A Data Shows post about how to make a strategic NDP vote went semi-viral last week, reaching just over 100,000 social media accounts.

Responding to that interest, Data Shows has launched Progressive Vote Guide at ProgressiveVote.ca, which I hope you will use and share with others.

Progressive Vote Guide uses only Elections Canada official data, not polls or those massively inaccurate seat projections.

Strategic hold: 23 NDP seats to vote NDP to stop Conservatives

There are 23 seats where the NDP candidate beat the Conservative candidate last time and, if liberal and social democrat voters stick together this time, the Conservative candidate will be defeated again.

These ridings have been represented by NDP MPs who’ve done amazing and sometimes daring work to strengthen Canadian households and make Canada a moral force in the world.

Several are critical ridings where the Liberal ran a weak third, with percentages in the teens. In these ridings, voters who confuse national trends with local dynamics could mistakenly help Poilievre win a seat, so a strategic NDP vote is important.

Canadians checking these seats in Progressive Vote Guide at ProgressiveVote.ca will find they’re marked “Strategic Hold.”

Vote your values: 74 seats Poilievre can’t win

Then there are 74 seats where Conservatives candidates received under 20 per cent support in 2021 and remain uncompetitive in 2025.

This group includes some very strong ridings for the NDP and hard-working candidates who deserve your vote. In these 74, an NDP vote expresses your support to continue the historic advocacy of the NDP.

Canadians checking these seats in Progressive Vote Guide at ProgressiveVote.ca will see they’re marked “Safe to Vote NDP.”