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.

[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.

The recount has given the riding to the Bloc Quebcois instead of the Liberals, by 44 votes.

This is why Canada does recounts in situations like these.

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Oh, yes: Australia has a federal election tomorrow...

[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.

Oh, look... The government hasn't even started and somebody's already resigned his seat.

In a safe riding for the Conservatives, so that the Conservative party leader can run for election again. Carney's said he isn't going to delay the by-election process.

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From what I've heard, the Australian election resulted in "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".

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Next up: the Conclave. Or, as Because News called it, the first-past-the-Pope election.

[Dartz]

Jesus, if yer man from Drimnagh wins the Pope hat, it'll be a great day for the parish. I know a few people who went to the same church.

[robkelk]

That was fast - they only started voting yesterday.

White smoke billows from Vatican chimney as Conclave decides

[classicdrogn]

I'm decidedly not a fan of organized religion, but in this one case I'll say "Well that 's good," because a lot of people take comfort and guidance from their faith, and there's a lot going on to make them feel the need in the world right now. Well, as long as it's not some utter whackadoo or anime villain schemer anyway, but even "radical" popes are not generally agitators on the world stage, the past century or two at least. May the new guy be truly blessed with strengrh, patience, and wisdom, because he's stepping into a deep mire while taking up a heavy load.

[robkelk]

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV.

And that's the Conclave wrapping up a day earlier than many people expected.

[Bob Schroeck]

An American pope. Wow.

[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.

The recount has given the riding to the Bloc Quebcois instead of the Liberals, by 44 votes.

This is why Canada does recounts in situations like these.

I was mistaken. First, the recount was triggered by a margin of less than 0.1% of the votes cast. Second, that was a vote verification, not a recount.

The recount has been completed by Superior Court of Quebec Justice Danielle Turcotte.

23,352 votes for the Liberal candidate.
23,351 votes for the Bloc Quebecois candidate.

So it's back to the Liberals... by one vote. And this result is official.

Every vote matters.

Three more votes are going to recount. "The recounts in Terra Nova-The Peninsulas and Milton East-Halton Hills South will begin next week. Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore's recount will start on May 20." If they all go Liberal, then the Liberals will be exactly one person short of a majority in the House. Oh, look, the Green Party has one person in the House...

[classicdrogn]

Rob, I know it was a joke, bunt are you sure you can't get someone to offer to sign up a new province or two? An actual functioning democracy sounds really nice to live in.

[robkelk]

If they're willing to leave and you're willing to let them go, we'd be happy to accept Maine (cutting a couple of hours off the trip between Halifax and Montreal).

For that matter, there are enough places in Alaska that already do most of their business with British Columbia and the Northwest Territories that they might as well be a province... Again, if they want to switch over

EDIT: And, while accepting Greenland as a province makes some sense, they've made it clear that they don't want to become one... so, no.

RE-EDIT: And there's been some low-level chatter about the Turks and Caicos Islands for over a century, and they already have Canadian-style health care... but I've never heard anything about the chatter getting anywhere near a referendum.

RE-RE-EDIT: Of course Wikipedia has a list

[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.

The recount has given the riding to the Bloc Quebcois instead of the Liberals, by 44 votes.

This is why Canada does recounts in situations like these.

I was mistaken. First, the recount was triggered by a margin of less than 0.1% of the votes cast. Second, that was a vote verification, not a recount.

The recount has been completed by Superior Court of Quebec Justice Danielle Turcotte.

23,352 votes for the Liberal candidate.
23,351 votes for the Bloc Quebecois candidate.

So it's back to the Liberals... by one vote. And this result is official.

Every vote matters.

Three more votes are going to recount. "The recounts in Terra Nova-The Peninsulas and Milton East-Halton Hills South will begin next week. Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore's recount will start on May 20." If they all go Liberal, then the Liberals will be exactly one person short of a majority in the House. Oh, look, the Green Party has one person in the House...

This is not going away.

One mail-in ballot was not counted because the self-addressed envelope provided by Elections Canada had the wrong address on it.

Rather, one that we know of.

Of course,it was for the Bloc Quebecois candidate.

If this was the only misaddressed mail-in ballot, then the vote is a tie.