rommelrommel
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The exact seat count will matter, if the NDP can’t be a viable alternative to the BQ on their own a minority might get tricky.
No I don't realize it. It's your country let me know how it is.You realize this is nazi thinking right? with your mighty iq and all? - with chances of sarcasm
Yeap. They did. By about 240.6k. Total vote count around 17.9MDid the Cons win the popular vote count over the Libs?
No I don't realize it. It's your country let me know how it is.
One of the heartening things from the election: the People's Party of Canada got exactly zero seats. Shows that Trump-style xenophobia and climate science denial don't fly with a more informed and compassionate electorate, especially after seeing the mess those policies caused in the US.
I guess I don't know enough about how ridings and seats are apportioned to understand how a party with more votes/greater vote share ends up with fewer seats. Kinda like a reverse electoral college situation from a US perspective.Yeap. They did. By about 240.6k. Total vote count around 17.9M
Simple. First past the post system in place here. Conservative won seats with higher percentage of the vote in a riding than Liberals did in a similarly sized riding. Accumulate over ridings you get this result.I guess I don't know enough about how ridings and seats are apportioned to understand how a party with more votes/greater vote share ends up with fewer seats. Kinda like a reverse electoral college situation from a US perspective.
I did not cast a vote because I've not given Canadian politics the consideration it is due rendering me woefully lacking in the matter at hand.
However, I just needed to express this one thought on the subject by stating the obvious: Canadians, please seriously take a lesson about how a guy like Trump could become the leader of a once great nation like ours and do everything possible on your side of the border to prevent that from happening in your neck of the woods.
This is not a matter of partisan politics. This is about preventing an actual existential threat to your nation as Trump has created in ours.
For the fact alone that you have a gov't sponsored health care system that gives the average Canadian their basic health care needs makes you light years ahead of us in regard to having the gov't work for the common folk rather than people like the Trump criminal clan and the few very wealthy who wish to control the gov't from outside the electoral processes as we have it here in the USofA.
Got it--so the Conservatives had more landslides in their strongest ridings, while Liberals had more narrow win margins across a greater share of ridings.Simple. First past the post system in place here. Conservative won seats with higher percentage of the vote in a riding than Liberals did in a similarly sized riding. Accumulate over ridings you get this result.
Got it--so the Conservatives had more landslides in their strongest ridings, while Liberals had more narrow win margins across a greater share of ridings.
Got it--so the Conservatives had more landslides in their strongest ridings, while Liberals had more narrow win margins across a greater share of ridings.
I guess I don't know enough about how ridings and seats are apportioned to understand how a party with more votes/greater vote share ends up with fewer seats. Kinda like a reverse electoral college situation from a US perspective.
