In Just Watch Me, John English describes an offer PET made to Broadbent in 1980: a formal coalition with 3-4 NDP Cabinet members. Broadbent ultimately refused because he thought it would be UK-1931 all over again, but let's say he swallows his doubts and lets it go through. Mulroney still wins an '84 landslide, but who will win a plurality of seats: Liberals or NDP? I still say the ideological differences post-PET are too fundamental for a LDP to emerge, but does anyone feel differently?
32nd Parliament
282 seats in the House of Commons
142 needed for majority
Liberal: 147
NDP: 32
PC: 103