All the way from Alberta east to Québec, north to Nunavut, and west to the NWT.
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Just waiting on BC, then. This feels like 2015 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Good news:
Liberal Party plurality has been projected
Maxime Bernier & PPC have been shut out so far
YMMV news:
The other four parties outnumber the Liberals in seat count, so a minority government is very, very possible.
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NDP support is contingent on national Pharmacare being passed this new session, while the BQ seems to be going on a bill-by-bill basis.
Hats off to Maxime Bernier of the Rhino Party who blocked the racist Maxima Bernier of the (white) People’s Party from getting a seat.
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As fun as it would have been for that to have made a difference, Rhino Bernier only got ~2% of the votes; the Conservative candidate beat PPC Bernier by a margin of 11%.
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Dammit. I looked.
Back to staring at the CBC.ca auto-updater like it’s logging the percentage of fascism in this country. Oh right, it is.
I think @jerwin found a great way to combat climate change denial on the science thread though:
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I don’t really see the point; other than the final numbers, the only big unanswered question is whether Singh will win his own seat. And even then, it looks like he will.
Unless, of course, your own riding is still undecided. I can see why you’d want to keep an eye on that (my own, predictably, went red with more than 50% of the vote, and over twice that of the second-place candidate).
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Because I am a total stress bunny about this stuff, that’s why.
At this point it looks like it’s mathematically impossible for the Cons to win, but the amount of popular vote makes me want to weep. If we didn’t have that first past the post I hate so much, they’d arguably be in position to form a government.
There’s a lot of conservatives at work, people who believe in fiscal conservatism and automatically vote Con no matter what happened with Harper (or Ford, or Harris, or Mulroney) and don’t think much past that. A lot of them come from either former or current Communist countries and are terrified even of the Liberals, never mind the NDP or Greens. Just like after Trump got elected, I’m going to feel surrounded by fools for a while.
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Yes, and although he needed his Washington State ID as secondary/tertiary ID, my son voted with me.
Our newly befriended (hours earlier) octogenarian visually impaired neighbour (immigrant, speaks six languages) walked in heavy rain with us fto the polling station, just to make sure my son and I could find the place, and to talk with us more. I thought we were all voting together, but she had ALREADY voted earlier! It warmed her heart to see my “little” (1.86m) immigrant vote for his first time.
Our candidate was re-elected.
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Somehow the conservatives increased(??!??) their votes in my riding, and I am furious to the max.
WHY DO THESE DORKS KEEP VOTING FOR THE ASSHOLE WHO SOLD THE CANADA WHEAT BOARD AND WHO KEEPS TRYING TO PRIVATIZE HEALTH CARE
… at least there’s only 680 White People’s Party members in this town
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Many years ago, when we were fresh-faced Pennyfarthing riders, a John A. Turner of the Rhinoceros Party ran in then PM John N. Turner’s riding. We fell down laffing watching the returns, hearing voters upset they voted for the wrong Turner.
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Because they get as far as JUSTIN TRUDEAU SUCKS and then just sort of stop.
Sadly, what they don’t stop doing is going to voting booths.
Even more sadly it never occurrs to them that the Con’s steady stream of name-calling and lies means ANDREW SCHEER SUCKS EVEN HARDER.
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Bernier is the only leader (of the major five¹) to lose his own riding. I am okay with that.
¹Does not actually include Bernier or the PPC for what are now obvious reasons.
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The Independent is Jody Wilson-Raybould!!! She did it!
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If we didn’t have FPTP, the Conservatives, as they exist today, wouldn’t be able to form government at all. They’d have more seats than the Liberals, true, but who would be willing to work with them? The Greens and the NDP are both left of the Liberals, and the Bloc, with the regional advantage FPTP gives them shattered, wouldn’t be enough to make it to 50% (and they’re fairly left-wing, too).
The Conservatives wouldn’t even be given the first chance to form government - that honour goes to the sitting Prime Minister.
It certainly wouldn’t be as stable a Liberal minority as the one we’re going into (no one, except maybe Scheer, wants another go-around on this one), but that would still have been the end result.
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Both Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May stated during the campaign they would be willing to work with a Conservative minority.
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May, yes (but it’d be contingent on Scheer adopting climate change policy that would infuriate the people who elected him, so take that for what it’s worth). Singh, not so much.
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Then that’s a flip, because he’s said he’d support the Cons in the past – as recently as this election.
And that, in a nutshell, is why I don’t trust Singh.
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Completely off topic
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But the thread title has me convinced there needs to be a Muppet Cover band of ** Prophets of Rage.** called Electoral Mayhem
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