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[Mr. Hobo]

Conservatives in the lead with 15 seats won @ 38% of the vote and leading 118 more seats. Liberal second with 11 elected and 15 leading @ 28% of the vote. NDP third with 7 elected and 55 leading @ 30% of the vote. BQ leading 5. Green with 0/0 @ 3%.

Orange Quebec is looking pretty cool

NDP/Lib coalition would be cool

[WharfRat]

Some days I am very envious of the parliamentary system... then I see shows like Jersey Shore on and remember why we can't have shit like that here.

Dunno what party you are affiliated but hope they do well!

[Mr. Hobo]

NDP got my vote this time around. I think they might lead the opposition and if the Liberals aren't butthurt over yet another big loss they might form a coalition government, which would be pretty cool

25 CON, 11 LIB and 8 NDP. They might win a majority

Edit: Holy shit, 42-11-11

[Volition]

conservatives 77 liberals 12 NDP 21.

I'm sorta outta the loop, why is NDP so popular this year? And is Ignatieff just driving the liberals into the ground

[Mr. Hobo]

conservatives 77 liberals 12 NDP 21.

I'm sorta outta the loop, why is NDP so popular this year? And is Ignatieff just driving the liberals into the ground

I guess because Quebec decided that it'd rather have a weak BQ and a strong NDP instead of a moderate BQ and weak NDP

Conservatives have a majority.

I think vote splitting is to blame. 30% want NDP, 30% want Liberal, 40% want Conservative and Conservative wins. Downside to FPTP. We need alternative vote

My guess is Harper's gonna have his 4 years of driving Canada into the ground, BQ is going to shrivel up due to lack of funding and Liberals are gonna be cemented as Canada's 3rd largest part party. NDP is gonna use their new found money to become a serious contender for a majority government and come next election, when people are fed up with Harper's BS we'll get an NDP majority

[Boggart]

Wow I'm surprised the conservatives have a majority. Why is no one voting liberal? o.o Was there some huge scandal I was blind to?

[pyke]

Sucks for the Liberal party. Huge props to the NDP for their recent surge. I'm sad to see a Conservative majority, but life will go on.

[Volition]

Wow I'm surprised the conservatives have a majority. Why is no one voting liberal? o.o Was there some huge scandal I was blind to?

I woulda voted liberal (although liberals NEVER [EVER] win in Alberta)

[Boggart]

I woulda voted liberal (although liberals NEVER [EVER] win in Alberta)

I had school from 8:30 - 11:30 and work from 12:00 - 8:30 so I literally had no time to vote (unless I went on my dinner break to vote... which I wasn't inclined on doing)

I would've voted NDP because my MP is a family friend who is NDP heh heh

[Volition]

I had school from 8:30 - 11:30 and work from 12:00 - 8:30 so I literally had no time to vote (unless I went on my dinner break to vote... which I wasn't inclined on doing)

I would've voted NDP because my MP is a family friend who is NDP heh heh

Ehhh NDP would tax the crap out of us and Layton rising up in the polls even made the TSX drop a little. I'm more concerned for the economy right now than anything else. Cept I do agree with the NDP's stance on health services and post-secondary education.

[Boggart]

Ehhh NDP would tax the crap out of us and Layton rising up in the polls even made the TSX drop a little. I'm more concerned for the economy right now than anything else. Cept I do agree with the NDP's stance on health services and post-secondary education.

I'm more pro for the post-secondary customization since that more so applies to me. If all the young people actually voted then NDP would win. But voting? pssh.

[Mr. Hobo]

I had school from 8:30 - 11:30 and work from 12:00 - 8:30 so I literally had no time to vote (unless I went on my dinner break to vote... which I wasn't inclined on doing)

I would've voted NDP because my MP is a family friend who is NDP heh heh

Legally you should be given time off to go vote

[Volition]

Ignatieff lost in his own riding (politician, i am disappoint), although he has the greatest defeat speech of all time, "I learn more from my defeats than my victories" this man must be a fucking genius by now. Only thing I liked about this damn election is that the Treasonous Party (BQ) got as many seats as Green

[Boggart]

Legally you should be given time off to go vote

Yeah my dad told me that Legally yes, but my boss would kill me in other ways...

[Adina]

I wish I understood politics.

I wish I had the motivation to understand politics.

[ShadowLink64]

Ignatieff lost in his own riding (politician, i am disappoint), although he has the greatest defeat speech of all time, "I learn more from my defeats than my victories" this man must be a fucking genius by now. Only thing I liked about this damn election is that the Treasonous Party (BQ) got as many seats as Green

Bloc actually got 4 seats now. So yeah, the Quebec separatist party pretty much doesn't exist now, Liberals have had the worst showing in the history of the country, NDP has 100+ seats (half of which are Quebec rookies) which is unprecedented, and Conservatives have a majority.

I voted and my candidate won her seat again, so I can't complain.

At least we won't have an election for the next 4 years.

[Jake]

I'm sad to see a Conservative majority, but life will go on.

This.

Harper is too pro-American. Layton is a bad ass but a bad leader and the rest obviously suck as well. Most people I know just threw away a vote on the Green Party.

[Volition]

lol i shat brix when i found out that canada ACTUALLY has a political party named the lemon party of canada. http://en.wikipedia....iki/Lemon_Party

I thought votes were generally thrown away at the Rhino Party of Canada, which is basically "i'd rather vote for a rhino than the other running politicians"

[Eyams]

lol i shat brix when i found out that canada ACTUALLY has a political party named the lemon party of canada. http://en.wikipedia....iki/Lemon_Party

I thought votes were generally thrown away at the Rhino Party of Canada, which is basically "i'd rather vote for a rhino than the other running politicians"

better Rhino Party than Liberals, bro.

[Jake]

lol i shat brix when i found out that canada ACTUALLY has a political party named the lemon party of canada. http://en.wikipedia....iki/Lemon_Party

I thought votes were generally thrown away at the Rhino Party of Canada, which is basically "i'd rather vote for a rhino than the other running politicians"

'The Lemon Party has pledged to:
Restructure Canada's economy to be centred on lemon production
Support global warming so lemons can be grown in Canada
Abolish Toronto
Repeal the law of gravity'

lol obviously not important at all

[maidela]

honestly, I don't understand politics here anymore. Everybody complains about Harper since he was elected the first time. Then, he somehow manages to get MAJORITY?? WTF is wrong with us Canadians?

[Mr. Hobo]

honestly, I don't understand politics here anymore. Everybody complains about Harper since he was elected the first time. Then, he somehow manages to get MAJORITY?? WTF is wrong with us Canadians?

I read that he has like a 90% approval rating with conservatives and a 40% approval rating with the Canadian public meaning that the people who support him love him and the people who don't hate him

He won because even though he basically got the same amount of votes, vote splitting between NDP/Liberal let him get more seats thanks to a broken first past the post system

[ShadowLink64]

honestly, I don't understand politics here anymore. Everybody complains about Harper since he was elected the first time. Then, he somehow manages to get MAJORITY?? WTF is wrong with us Canadians?

Everyone complained about him, and also thought that the Liberals sucked. Unfortunately, voting NDP in most ridings meant that the Liberals and NDP were vote-split, giving the Conservative MP enough of a lead to be elected. This happened in 14 ridings supposedly, which made the difference between minority and majority.

[Volition]

I'm blaming the first past the post system for this