2025 Election Thread

[classicdrogn]

More evidence that Canada is not the 51st state: Your politicians have the decency to not use a tragedy as am opportunity to hold a press conference and give a few last sound bites the day before an election.

[robkelk]

Oh, they held press conferences... but I suspect you're right.

If they used their statements to try to make political points, the media were kind enough to not air that part of their statements. And the media here pride themselves on not playing softball with politicians.

[robkelk]

Well, the votes are being cast as I type this. There are a few ridings (Canada's equivalent of districts; I understand the word's from either Old English or Norse) where they've already started counting the advance votes because of the number of people who voted in the advance polls.

I would not want to be an election worker in Carleton this year. In a riding that rarely gets more than 50% of the electorate casting their votes, 44% of the electorate voted in the advance polls. And there are ninety-one names on the ballot, 74 of whom are Independent and nine of whom have not declared an affiliation. And it's the riding where the leader of the Conservative Party is running for a seat. (One becomes Prime Minister by being able to "command a majority of votes in Parliament", so one needs a seat in the House of Commons in order to command those votes. Imagine His Orangeness having to run against 90 other people on the final ballot to become President.) Mark an X beside one name on a metre-long ballot, and do your best to avoid spoiling it...

EDIT: And why do we still have a Marijuana Party? Marijuana is legal now.

[robkelk]

His Orangeness sees fit to practice foreign interference in our election

[MilkmanConspiracy]

"Liberals will form next government, CBC News projects"

[Norgarth]

Currently they are still looking to be 10 seats short of a Majority Government.

[Labster]

It looks like the Conservatives are now facing total Carney-age

EDIT: And why do we still have a Marijuana Party? Marijuana is legal now.

If there's grass on the field of candidates, play hardball?

His Orangeness sees fit to practice foreign interference in our election

If you become the 51st state, then it becomes domestic election interference.  And you know what, Trump's right, "America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundred of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past."  And all we ever got in exchange for those subsidy dollars were goods and services!  Well, those days are over, because Americans can no longer afford to buy goods from other countries.

[robkelk]

It looks like the Conservatives are now facing total Carney-age

You're just saying that because the Conservative party leader was voted out of his own House seat (and so far is refusing to step down as party leader); they did pretty well otherwise, gaining seats in the House. The Liberals are looking at another minority government... but it's been a very long time since a party won four elections in a row.

The New Democrats have lost official party status, even if they get both of the seats that they're still leading in but haven't clinched. And their leader lost his seat, too. However, they're still enough to tip the balance of power, unless the Bloc Quebecois decides to support the Liberals.

The Green co-leader kept her seat... but she's the only one in her party who was elected.

(Trivia: the Marxist-Leninists out-polled the Communists, but even if we had proportional representation, they wouldn't have enough for even one seat put together.)

[robkelk]

The Terrebonne riding (in Quebec) will be having a recount. By federal law, any election decided by a margin that's less than 100votes must go through a recount, and according to the first count, that riding was decided by 35 votes.

Don't let anybody tell you that your vote doesn't count. We wouldn't have that law if this didn't happen on a regular basis, and in races this tight, every vote counts.

EDIT: And as I typed that, the final poll reported in for Terra Nova-The Peninsulas in Newfoundland. That riding was decided by twelve votes.

RE-EDIT: Oh, yes -- None of these numbers are official. Elections Canada has not yet published the final vote numbers.