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Election Information
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Ways to vote
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Vote on election day (April 28)
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- uses the special ballot process
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Data on your district:
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Go Bruce Fanjoy! Stop that demagogue!
This Liberal woman CBC has just finished talking to both looks and speaks an awful lot like Leslie Knope from Parks & Rec.
(This is not a bad thing.)
Binge watching Parks and Rec currently hehe
Lmao PP’s on his way to lose his own riding
Imagine if he came in 91st. It’d be a heritage moment up there with balcony guy
Hahahaha that’d be incredible
Watching the CBC feed on YouTube. It says only 10 of 266 polls reported, but Fanjoy (what an apt name) is ahead by over 50%. That’s pretty incredible.
Also wtf? 91 candidates? In a country with FPTP‽
It’s a joke/protest setup by the Longest Ballot Committee ironically in opposition to FPTP and definitely isn’t the norm haha
Oh that’s brilliant! I love it!
Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
I mean, he’s very, very good at the firehose-of-soundbites style of campaigning. The dude has literally gotten elected for every year of his working life on it.
This liberal guy on CBC is super fucking annoying. He doesn’t need to be campaigning on the results show. JFC
Yeah way too eager, super annoying. The woman beside him is visibly annoyed with him it’s pretty entertaining
Yeah the blatant campaigning is unnecessary and leaves a bad taste in my mouth
Please don’t put your phone in your mouth, even during election night.
NDP needs to drop Singh. Conservatives need to drop PP.
I may as well get to bed, but I wish I would know before if the NDP will have enough seats to prop up an LPC minority. I’d hate to see the LPC+NDP be one or two seats short, leaving the CPC/BQ with enough votes to stymie everything. Right now it’s sitting at 170 combined, need 172 or more to make it work.
LPC+NDP could be 171 and be ok on current numbers, with the 1 GRN projected reaching a majority without needing BQ. Still…they’re 1 short of that.
We’ve still got those advance polls keeping things in flux, though. A Liberal majority hasn’t even been ruled out.
Canadians, what’s the deal with “official party status”? I gather from the CBC that you need 12 seats to achieve it, but what does it actually do, what’s the reasoning behind it, and do people generally like this system?
For context, here in Australia party status is decided pre-election, and only requires you have 1500 active members, or at least 1 incumbent. To my knowledge the only thing it gives you here is more flexibility with respect to campaign financing.
Honestly, I hadn’t even heard much about it until this election, and I’ve been pretty heavily involved in electoral politics. To actually register a party it’s just a fee and a few hundred signatures, and the requirement to get a candidate on the ballot is similar.
It’s time allotment in the HoC and money for staff, research, etc. Not much more.
Maxime Bernier lost his seat. Yves- François Blanchet BQ has kept his seat but the BQ is poised to lose 12 seats.
What did the BQ do loose so much favor? As usual I am out of touch with Qc goings-on.
Independence is not a priority with the current geopolitical situation. Plus a lot of people want to make sure PP doesn’t get in.
Anti-Conservative sentiment in Quebec. The Bloc is never going to hold a majority, so strategically at this time the Liberals were the obvious choice to keep the Conservatives out of power. Among other things.
I am so glad we don’t have to worry about that here in Aus.
But I do find it kinda curious. This seems a little different from how things played out in the UK. Over there, the anti-conservative vote didn’t always go to Labour, but instead would tend to go to Labour or Liberal Democrat, depending on the seat. You’d expect if an incumbent is non-conservative, the strategic anti-conservative vote would be to re-elect the incumbent. That should play in BQ’s favour in terms of retaining their seats. And yet that apparently isn’t what happened.
10:41 p.m. EDT: Blanchet holds seat as party suffers losses
Blanchet caused some upset days before the election calling Canada an “artificially country with very little meaning,” then doubled down in the face of denunciation by his political rivals.
The Bloc lost ground to Mark Carney’s Liberals early in the election campaign – as many voters rallied around the incumbent government in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threat – and Blanchet struggled to win back that support.
Interactive live results pages are clearly losing this election.
Are the early polling votes from last week not counted already? Because they’ve called the election for liberals already but the total vote count is less than the 7.6 million that voted early…?
CBC said it’s riding by riding the order they count the ballots.
Yup. At least one riding started counting the early votes 6 hours before the polls closed. Usually it’s about an hour before.
I think that was Carleton because they have 91 candidates on the ballot, so they had to get a survival dispensation to start early.
Are the early polling votes from last week not counted already
In one province they were allowed to start counting those 6 hours before polls closed. In all others, they could start 2 hours before, but it is optional and up to each riding’s returning officer. So some ridings have it, some don’t. CBC made it sound like they don’t even know which ones have and which have not.
Well, I did it. I feel dirty, but I voted liberal. Not that it matters here. First time ever voting liberal, but the cons platform is just so damn terrible. And my usual ndp vote for the past couple times doesn’t even have a hope.
A noble sacrifice.
It’s looking like people like you made the difference, based on the vibe of the early results. It’s close.
Edit: It’s pulling apart as things go on.
Can’t believe the CBC Live news coverage … just a moment ago, they asked Conservative Jason Kenny what his thoughts were on resource development in regards to First Nations
What the hell do you think he’s going to say
It’s like asking a Irishman what his thoughts are of potatoes
Well, the Greens were able to keep a seat, so there’s that.
Could change, but as of right now, they’re not leading anywhere.
Where are you seeing that?
I saw it momentarily on the map but it disappeared. FWIW Mike Morrice in Kitchener Centre has a very good shot at keeping his seat. Very few polls reporting there at this time
I was hoping it was him.
I used to work in his riding and it was reassuring seeing all the green election signs outside of houses. Knowing that people were realizing they are not stuck voting for the same two parties over and over.
Hopefully we get a minority liberal government tonight. Mark Carney needs to taught to collaborate with others. I want him to be much more mature than Justin Trudeau ever was.
My only problem with this plan is it seems they’d need both NDP and BQ. If they only needed NDP, should be business as ususal. If they need BQ… could be hairier.
There’s also a chance the Greens could be a kingmaker here if that’s preferable to a potential bloc rugpull.
