Tactical voting primarily takes place under single-member district plurality electoral institutions and takes the form … of third-party supporters voting for one of the major parties. Although much has been written about tactical voting, few … voting in0 the Canadian general elections between 1988 and 2000. We build a model of tactical voting by identifying factors …

) and provoke tactical voting, where voters switch away from trailing parties (known as the `psychological` effect). We view … tactical voting as a coordination problem. A group of voters wish to prevent a win by a disliked party (such as the … there is no common knowledge of the game being played - tactical voting is a global game. We show that in this setting …