Canadian election results

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Who will win?

  • Trudeau (Liberal Party)

    Votes: 15 88.2%
  • Scheer (Conservative Party)

    Votes: 2 11.8%
  • Singh (NDP)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .

rommelrommel

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2002
4,410
3,183
146
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.
 

Denly

Golden Member
May 14, 2011
1,433
229
106
I am happy with the result except too much BQ for my liking, I still remember the shit storm we had in the 90s. Interesting to see what's next for Andrew "Trudeau is bad" Scheer, got wipe out in Toronto is trashy, look there are 3 on the left that split the votes, tons of trolls and fake news that helping you still can't get the win.
 

Commodus

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 2004
9,215
6,818
136
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.
 

cytg111

Lifer
Mar 17, 2008
23,993
13,519
136
No I don't realize it. It's your country let me know how it is.

You : The fewer people that shows up to vote (that you deem low iq low information) the better for the country.

What must logically follow is that you dont subscribe to the democratic properties of "government of the people, by the people, for the people".

Which makes perfect sense if you identify as a Trump Loyalist. I mean. It adds up.
 

rommelrommel

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2002
4,410
3,183
146
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.

Yeah, zero seats, average of 1.6% of votes across the country, and even their leader as an incumbent MP got beaten soundly.
 

UNCjigga

Lifer
Dec 12, 2000
24,937
9,220
136
Yeap. They did. By about 240.6k. Total vote count around 17.9M
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.
 

trenchfoot

Lifer
Aug 5, 2000
14,939
7,458
136
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.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
96,950
16,210
126
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.
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.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
96,950
16,210
126
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.


You are too late. Election over :awe:

And our Conservatives are probably further left than your Democrats.
 

UNCjigga

Lifer
Dec 12, 2000
24,937
9,220
136
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.
 

rommelrommel

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2002
4,410
3,183
146
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.

Yeah, the Conservatives absolutely blow out quite a few prairie ridings by 80%+ of the vote while staying competitive in many.

The Liberals won a lot of seats by less than 5% and are extremely unpopular on the prairies aside from some urban ridings where they’re near competitive.
 

KMFJD

Lifer
Aug 11, 2005
30,031
45,270
136
I love the fact the the Rhino Party of Canada had a candidate whose name was Maxime Bernier run in his riding of Beauce
 
Nov 25, 2013
32,083
11,718
136
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.

Because most of their support is concentrated in the prairie provinces, particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan.
 
Nov 25, 2013
32,083
11,718
136
Just read this on the CBC and something caught my eye:

"In fact, the Conservative Party won more votes in Alberta alone than it received in Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador combined.

Compared to 2011, when the Conservatives won a convincing majority government, the party achieved lower popular vote support levels in every province except Alberta and Saskatchewan.

In once solidly blue ridings like Central Nova and South Shore-St. Margaret's in Nova Scotia, and Milton in Ontario, the Liberal candidates easily bested their Tory opponents.

Despite a promising start to the campaign in Quebec, the Conservatives actually lost seats in that province.

The party emerged as a starkly more regional entity, with its support largely concentrated in Western Canada. There, the party's base turned out in record numbers, thanks in part to hugely unpopular Liberal policies that are seen as constituting an attack on the country's oil and gas sector."


It took a few years but the Reform Party takeover of the PCs has morphed into...The Reform Party aka Conservative Party of Canada. They're pretty much back to where they started from all those years ago. Damn. That takes talent.
 
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