Canada

This makes no sense... Unless you wanted conservatives to win, that number should have only made you want to go out and vote that much more.

And if you WANTED cons to win, it also should have made you want to go out and vote more because that landslide win won't happen without people going out to make it happen.

Mine was at 94% so I also felt like not voting. I did anyway and the Cons still won but it was actually a much closer result than what the polls had made it out to be. First time in a long time we haven't been orange though so that really sucks.

I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote.

This is the main reason I think poll prediction media should be banned during elections. People can change things by voting, but you'd never know it from the election "advice" plastered everywhere. I believe it promotes an apathy vote where people just stay home more than anything informative or otherwise useful.

ty for going anyway.

Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.

If the parties don’t see even marginal gains in a region they won’t bother putting resources towards increasing that growth and eventually flipping a seat.

If we ever get away from first past the post they also need to see that it would benefit them to have second place.

It’s important to vote regardless of the outcome.

My city is a giant retirement community pretending to be a city, so naturally a Conservative always wins. Didn't stop me from voting anyway, because fuck 'em. Hopefully things change when the retirees biff it.