Glen Clark is on your side, said the NDP campaign, but Gordon Campbell? Whose side is he on, anyway? It worked and in a tight race the NDP won 39 seats with 39.5% of the popular vote. The Liberals won 41.8% of the vote but only 33 seats, while the new Reform Party won 9% and 2 seats, and the Progressive Democrat Alliance took almost 6% of the vote and elected one MLA. As Campaign Manager Hans Brown explained, racking up his third provincial win, the Liberals piled up votes in safe seats that the NDP could never win, while the NDP vote ‘was more efficient’.
The 1996 election
