Canada votes: Trudeau in the lead to win a minority
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[QUOTE=smurfy;48940096]Aright fuck it before I go to bed I'm gonna say Libs win and do so by a wider margin than most people expected[/QUOTE]
Wahey I fuckin smashed it boiz
[editline]20th October 2015[/editline]
Excited to see them deliver electoral reform and free weed 4 all now
[editline]20th October 2015[/editline]
Should be a right laugh
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRuitHPW0AAodKF.png:large[/IMG]
[QUOTE=@jason_kirby]Again, based on Google searches for leaders on Oct 17:
LPC 189
CPC 108
NDP 34
Falls apart below: Green 7, BQ 0 [/QUOTE]
[URL="https://twitter.com/jason_kirby/status/656299480828870656"](source)[/URL]
That side burn at the bottom, though. Ouch, Google. :v:
This country is going down the shitter I'm moving to Canad- oh fuck
Final results:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fAQ7Rdr.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=aydin690;48943103]Final results:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fAQ7Rdr.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Conservative got under 100 seats!
Ayyyyyy
Got 99 seats but Churchill—Keewatinook Aski ain't one
This is awesome. Trudeau has one hell of a mandate. Nobody ever expected to see a grit majority.
[editline]20th October 2015[/editline]
I hope this puts Canada back on the the best country ever list.
While people should be equally angry that Trudeau has a majority of seats without a majority of votes, I doubt that people will be anywhere near as vocally angry as they were with Harper.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;48943757]While people should be equally angry that Trudeau has a majority of seats without a majority of votes, I doubt that people will be anywhere near as vocally angry as they were with Harper.[/QUOTE]
Not as much call for anger seeing as Liberals have promised electoral reform
[QUOTE=smurfy;48943825]Not as much call for anger seeing as Liberals have promised electoral reform[/QUOTE]
And they'll quickly realize it's not feasible as it will surely require constitutional reform, which Quebec will stonewall.
[QUOTE=The golden;48942494]And the prairies proving, once again, they are ass-backwards.
Water is wet, the sun is bright, AB and SK vote blue.[/QUOTE]
Shut up, not all of us in Alberta are dumb rednecks. I surprisingly don't personally know a single person who voted Conservative.
It's funny how Albertans voted for a majority NDP provincial government yet voted for Harper in the federal election.
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;48943880]Shut up, not all of us in Alberta are dumb rednecks. I surprisingly don't personally know a single person who voted Conservative.[/QUOTE]
My family was all over the place. My mom and brothers voted orange, I voted red with my cousin and uncle, my neighbour and I'm sure my dad voted blue. It sure was an interesting election for us. A lot of discussion over the course of the campaign.
[QUOTE=isreal?;48943906]It's funny how Albertans voted for a majority NDP provincial government yet voted for Harper in the federal election.[/QUOTE]
Alberta 2011 provincial votes total: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Canadian_federal_election,_2011"]1,395,885[/URL]
Alberta 2015 provincial election cast votes total: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_general_election,_2015"]1,486,901[/URL]
Alberta 2015 federal votes total: [URL="http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/10/canadian-election-2015-voter-turnout/"]~1,840,000[/URL]
Alberta voters tally roughly ~2.66 million. The approximate figures for this election are derived from the voter turnout percentages from the 2015 federal article between 2011 and 2015, as I'm not aware that official figures have been released yet and I couldn't be assed to count the totals in every single one of Alberta's 30+ ridings.
I think the provincial election was the left waking up and getting angry with conservative politics, and the federal election's turnout is a renewed push from the right to counter the local orange momentum. But, provincial politics is a whole other arena to federal, and I'm not up on Alberta politics much.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;48947555]I'm not up on Alberta politics much.[/QUOTE]
The Conservative party had a split. The old Progressive Conservative (PC) party was corrupt and was raising taxes on everybody but large corporations.
The new party, the Wild Rose proclaimed that the PC's were corrupt as shit and not really conservative and[I] then[/I] the leadership of the Wild Rose joined the PC's.
Quite the clusterfuck. Meanwhile the NDP ran a positive campaign.
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