Canadian Election--6/28 Live Thread

Various | 6/28/04 | Free Republic

[conservative in nyc]

The Canadian election is today. If the most recent polls are correct, the Conservative Party of Canada may win more seats in Canada's House of Commons, setting the stage for a Conservative minority government. A new day may be dawning in Canada. But the election is going to be close.

Please use this thread for any early election articles that pop-up over the course of the day, predictions and news analysis, and, of course, the actual results as they come in.

Also, please post links to Canadian elections result sites here.

[Petronski]

a la prochaine fois!


Next time.

[section9]

Okay, set the defeat of the Conservative Party aside.

The PC is a new party. People don't trust it yet to lead. Martin is leading a minority government now, so there is no "mandate". However, bear something in mind. I don't see the Liberals having an easy time putting together ad hoc coalitions in the Commons. Especially since they will have to deal with the Bloc to govern.

Sadly, this Government will have no problem passing hate crimes legislation and whatnot, given the fact that the Bloc and the NDP have signed on to such nonsense.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Law is not justice but process]

How many seats did each party have in the last (existing?) government?

[Dane]

Sean Tisdall PCP 85 0.87%

They have a PCP party in Canada. Now I can understand why their politics are so whacked. :^)

[Petronski]

One time I opened the box, and damn if I couldn't see the cat right there. F*** Heisenberg...the Enterprise has compensators.

[conservative in nyc]

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share
LIB	116	20	136	38.66%
CON	70	20	90	29.11%
BQ	50	5	55	11.06%
NDP	14	10	24	16.11%
NA	0	1	1	.01%
OTH	0	0	0	5.05%
Last Update:  June 28, 10:54:57 PM EDT				308 seats

Click the Refresh Results button to update the election results.

QUEBEC
Party	Elected	Leading	Vote Count	Vote Share
BQ	50	5	681373	49.33%
LIB	17	3	460231	33.32%
CON	0	0	125711	9.1%
NDP	0	0	60977	4.41%
Last Update:  June 28, 10:54:57 PM EDT				75 seats

ONTARIO
Party	Elected	Leading	Vote Count	Vote Share
LIB	71	5	1156265	43.87%
CON	18	3	836666	31.75%
NDP	6	3	488402	18.53%
Last Update:  June 28, 10:54:26 PM EDT				106 seats

PRAIRIES
Party	Elected	Leading	Vote Count	Vote Share
CON	39	4	462844	48.38%
LIB	5	3	259179	27.09%
NDP	5	0	176477	18.45%
Last Update:  June 28, 10:54:26 PM EDT				56 seats

The Prairie region consists of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. It has a total of 56 ridings.

ALBERTA
Party	Elected	Leading	Vote Count	Vote Share
CON	25	1	236293	60.48%
LIB	0	2	86080	22.03%
NDP	0	0	41281	10.57%
Last Update:  June 28, 10:54:26 PM EDT				28 seats

BRITISH COLUMBIA
Party	Elected	Leading	Vote Count	Vote Share
CON	6	13	26078	42.42%
NDP	0	8	14813	24.1%
LIB	0	6	15349	24.97%
NA	0	1	398	0.65%
Last Update:  June 28, 10:55:28 PM EDT				36 seats

[Petronski]

I hope someone else can help you. I think BQ is up 15. Beyond that, I don't remember.

[Petronski]

Le Bloc Quebecois set a new record, 56 members (v. 54 in 1993).

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[goldstategop]

Only a country where 75% of the vote goes to the Left could have produced such a lopsided result. Its amazing 25% of Canadians don't buy into this world view. If they made it 100%, they could drop the bother of holding costly elections every five years.

[1066AD]

Steyn says:
10.20pm: Just a reminder of the starting point: In 2000, the Liberals won 172 seats, Alliance 66, Bloc 38, NDP 13, Progressive Conservatives 12. Right now, the Conservative seat take is about equal to the total Alliance/PC seat take in 2000.

http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=23

[conservative in nyc]

Canadian Election 2000 Results
Seats Won  and % of Vote

Region Turnout%	Bloc	C.Alliance	Liberals	NDP	PC	Other	Total
Canada 6.12%	38 10.7%	66 25.5%	172 40.8%	13 8.5%	12 12.2%	0 2.3%	301
Nfld 57.1%	-	- 3.9%	5 44.9%	- 13.1%	2 34.5%	- 3.7%	7
PEI 72.7%	-	- 5.0%	4 47.0%	- 9.0%	- 38.4%	- 0.5%	4
NS 62.9%	-	- 9.6%	4 36.5%	3 24.0%	4 29.1%	- 0.9%	11
NB 67.7%	-	- 15.7%	6 41.7%	1 11.7%	3 30.5%	- 0.3%	10
Que 64.1%	38 39.9%	- 6.2%	36 44.2%	- 1.8%	1 5.6%	- 2.3%	75
Ont 58.0%	-	2 23.6%	100 51.5%	1 8.3%	- 14.4%	- 2.2%	103
Man 62.3%	-	4 30.4%	5 32.5%	4 20.9%	1 14.5%	- 1.7%	14
Sask 62.3%	-	10 47.7%	2 20.7%	2 26.2%	- 4.8%	- 0.6%	14
Alta 60.2%	-	23 58.9%	2 20.9%	- 5.4%	1 13.5%	- 1.3%	26
BC 63.0%	-	27 49.4%	5 27.7%	2 11.3%	- 7.3%	- 4.3%	34
Yuk 63.5	-	- 27.7%	1 32.5%	- 31.9%	- 32.0%	- 0.4%	1
NWT 52.2%	-	- 17.7%	1 45.6%	- 26.7%	- 10.0%	- 0.0%	1
Nunavut 54.1%	-	-	1 69.0%	- 18.3%	- 8.2%	- 4.5%	1

http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/results.html

[goldstategop]

Only a country where 75% of the vote goes to the Left could have produced such a lopsided result. Its amazing 25% of Canadians don't buy into this world view. If they made it 100%, they could drop the bother of holding costly elections every five years.

[jamesissmall218]

Not to be a Monday morning...err night quarterback, but I think that this was to be expected. Polls had a the race tied with a good number of undecideds. The conservative party is less than a year old, and Canadians by their nature like to go with the 'safe' option. The swing voters simply felt that they didn't know enough about the conservatives, so they stayed with what they knew. The result is bad, but I think that it is a floor, not a ceiling. In time I think that Canadians will become more comfortable with the new conservative party, and it will increase its standing in ontario in the next election, which will probably be soon.

[Dan from Michigan]

I saw some of the most vicious ads I've ever seen on CBC 9 during some channel surfing. The libs basically calling Harper and some other conservative as Religious wackos, gun nuts, and worst of all, enabling wacko separatists in Quebec!!

I noticed it and raised my eyebrows, and I'm from a state where we get TONS of these every two years. Sounds like the Gore ads in 2000.

[overtaxed_canadian]

The Liberals won't have to deal with the Bloc. Combined with the NDP, they can rule as a majority (with a projected total of 160 seats). Unbelievably, Canada lurched even more to the left.

It is a sad day for Canada.

[Petronski]

Some drift downward for the left coalition now:


LIB 132 NDP 26 158

CON 91

[Petronski]

I really do hope GILLES DUCEPPES gets his way, don't you?