firehawk12
Subete no aware
By-elections probably gather less attention than even municipal elections. lolI agree, guy at work is in this riding and said he was voting green. I said you are just going to split the vote and let the Conservative win.. Its obvious more people don't want the conservative candidate.. but I guess that's how it works. :/
Less than 30% voter turnout so far also.. as always here apathy reigns.
So are people just flipping a coin between the NDP and Green there? Even so, if one of the parties didn't exist, then at least the protest vote would actually go somewhere that would be an effective form of protest...There really isn't much of a 'lefty' vote in Calgary Centre. There's a kind of progressive libertarian vote that's shedding off the much more socially conservative CPC candidate's vote (she was a WRP candidate in the recent provincial election).
For context, this riding hasn't been anything but some form of conservative (PC, Reform, Alliance) since it was created in 1968. In the last election, the CPC won it with 57% of the vote. Very little of the Lib/Green vote that's happening right now is left-wing in a sense that would apply to most of the rest of the country.
Wow. Victoria is *tied*. To the vote. At 140/256 polls in.
Edit: Whoops, of course I mean Liberal and Green. lol I'm mixing up ridings in my head.