Maintaining Party Unity: Analyzing the Conservative Party of Canada's Integration of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties
Matthew Thompson (Carleton University), PhD thesis in Political Science
"The splitting of the vote between the PC and Reform parties was a concern for many Canadian conservatives. The inability to unite the two parties led to additional vote splitting in the next two elections with the PCs receiving just under 19 per cent of the popular vote in 1997 and slightly over 12 per cent in 2000.
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“Additionally, in over 30 ridings the combined vote of the PC and Reform/Alliance candidates would have won the riding. It could not be assumed that a merger of the two parties would result in the new party receiving all the votes of the two predecessor parties”
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