2025 Election Thread

[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.