Better NDP Results in 2011.

In the Canadian Federal Election held in May of 2011, the Conservative Party government went from 143 seats to 166 seats, leaving them in a comfortable majority. More shocking, however, was that the Liberal Party and New Democratic Party effectively switched places, going from 77 seats and 36 seats respectively, to 34 seats and 103 seats. This would later be undone in the 2015 election cycle, but it was incredibly upsetting at the time.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make the NDP upswing more dramatic than IOTL, as large as feasibly possible. Bonus points if you can leave the NDP in a position to form a minority government, or an NDP-Liberal Coalition with the NDP in the lead. Bonus points and a cookie if you can get Jack Layton into the Prime Minister's office on a pure NDP majority.
 
The percentage share of the popular vote for the NDP was 10% better than their second and third best elections (1988 and the one they just had). I really think this was the best possible outcome for the NDP.

Its actually absurdly easy to get a worse NDP result, pretty much every different leader for EITHER the Liberals or the NDP will make that work.
 
Jack Layton dies right before the election. Sympathy votes give the NDP three more percentage points at the expense of the Liberals.
 
I made these alternate results a while ago:

Stephen Harper-Conservative: 141-2 35.45%
Jack Layton-NDP: 141+105 33.83%
Michael Ignatieff-Liberal: 25-52 19.31%
Elizabeth May-Green: 1+1 3.91%
Gilles Duceppe-BLQ: 0-47 6.04%
308 seats
155 for majority
 
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