The Ontario 2018 election thread

[robkelk]

There were some close margins:

• Ottawa West - Nepean: the PC candidate received 176 more votes than the NDP candidate
  

Ugh. So damn close.

With 50,545 votes cast from a possible 86,747 voters.

Which means the results in the riding were:

Couldn't be bothered to vote: 36,202
PC: 16,591
NDP: 16,415
Liberal: 14,809
Green: 1,937
NAP: 542

More people in the riding chose "Couldn't be bothered to vote" than chose the PCs and the NDP combined. (Yes, they couldn't be bothered. There were advance voting places, mail-in votes, and translation help; one would have had to be in a coma to not be able to vote.) Maybe there should be a new election.

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The Campaigner, June 8 - "Introducing Ontario's new premier: Doug Ford"

And that's the final issue of The Campaigner. All further posts to this thread will be opinions, unless one of those close races goes for a recount.