[Ozabald]

Election campaigns are important. Sometimes the "expected" result does not happen. In the 2021 Nova Scotia provincial election, the Liberals were the government and with a new, young leader, the outcome was expected to be another Liberal majority. Instead, the PC's pulled off the upset with a majority.

The 2013 BC provincial election has many similarities to the current situation in Manitoba. A very tired BC Liberal government has been in power for 12 years. An unpopular premier (Gordon Campbell) resigned and was replaced by a woman (Christy Clark). The NDP were riding high in the polls and the only question was how large would the NDP win be. Then the election was called. The BC Liberals were consistently several points behind the NDP in every public opinion poll throughout the campaign. Even poll results released on the last day of the campaign suggested the NDP had an eight to nine percentage point margin over the Liberals What happened? The Liberals won the election with even a larger majority than they had when the writ was dropped. Living in BC at the time, it was Clark who won that election for the Liberals. She campaigned her ass off and Adrian Dix (NDP Leader) thought he had it it the bag and campaigned like it.