Why some frustrated NDP voters flipped to Conservatives in the election – National [Video]

As Liberal red and Conservative blue swept across the country in Canada’s federal election earlier this week, NDP orange dwindled.

While many voters who left the party turned to the Liberals, many others flipped to the Conservatives —  with affordability being among the key factors.

In Monday’s federal election, the Liberals are projected to have won 168 seats — enough to form a minority government — and the Conservatives sit at 144.

But after winning 25 seats in the 2021 election, the NDP plummeted to just seven seats with their leader, Jagmeet Singh, among those who lost re-election.

And in ridings that flipped blue, union workers appear to have played a key role.

“What you’re seeing happening is this shift of people who are union workers who typically in the past might have gone NDP or Liberal,” said Terri Givens, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia.

“They’re frustrated with the …