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[Coldnoodle]

Craig Oliver on Harper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs8hkuEA3Q8

 

[Merguson]

Well, I'm tired. It's the end of the election.

Good night all. I'll just leave this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMJanDqbmY

 

[Indrid Cold]

Kelowna goes red

The first and only federal election (I've been able to and participated in three) where my vote has ever mattered.

Damn. Pleasantly surprised. Wonder how the turn out was. When I voted ~3 pm it was pretty empty.

 

[Sibylus]

W.H. Auden once wrote:

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade[.]

Well, at this hour I'm comfortably in my bed (it's past 2 AM here; God, work is going to be a challenge tomorrow), but hopefully we have indeed seen the end of a low, dishonest decade tonight.

I'm certainly hoping it's the end of our lost decade.

 

[mo60]

42 seats now for the ndp.

 

[killer rin]

You know, I'm actually feeling pretty exhausted now that the election is over, and I've just been sitting here dancing in my seat... I can't imagine how Trudeau must be feeling since he has been pretty much awake nonstop for these 70 days

 

[Sean C]

Kelowna goes red

The first and only federal election (I've been able to and participated in three) where my vote has ever mattered.

I think that's the clear contender for flukiest win of the election.

 

[Sibylus]

Damn. Pleasantly surprised. Wonder how the turn out was. When I voted ~3 pm it was pretty empty.

Castanet puts total votes at 57,829.

 

[Pedrito]

I hate to tell you this, but he's been appointing lower court judges all this time. Guess who Trudeau gets to pick from?

I know that. But before Brown, I don't think he had a clear strategy. Brown was clearly a case of fast-tracking a relative nobody to the supreme court in 24 months.

 

[Rocky85]

Im watching a show on my pvr and a conservative commercial came on. Is there a reason why harper even has campaign promises? I mean, why wasnt he doing any of that stuff before the election?

 

[Mission]

Elmwood Transcona is driving me nuts. Traditional NDP... went Con by 300 votes last time. I spent all day pulling the vote, and it's been as close as 1 vote difference as the last few polls come in.

They have just declared Blaikie the winner by 51 votes.

 

[IndoAssassin]

Well, I'm tired. It's the end of the election.

Good night all. I'll just leave this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMJanDqbmY

At least we now have a leader who embraces our multiculturalism.

 

[GSG Flash]

I wanna see the Angry Harper Supporter's response to the results, especially since his boy Ted Opitz lost

 

[UberTag]

19 ridings still being decided.
I've only been able to isolate 14 of them.

Anyone know which ones I'm missing?

Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou
Burnaby South
Calgary Centre
Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River
Edmonton Centre
Edmonton Mill Woods
Hochelaga
Kenora
Longueuil-Saint-Hubert
Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup
Regina-Lewvan
Richmond Centre
Salaberry-Suroît
Trois-Rivières

 

[orochi91]

FUCK. YES.

Bautista has given Canada a legendary meme.

 

[mo60]

43 now for the ndp.

 

[Sean C]

Craig Oliver on Harper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs8hkuEA3Q8

Yeah, that was pretty incredible. I always thought of his as a Tory sympathizer, but he was pissed.

 

[Indrid Cold]

Castanet puts total votes at 57,829.

Hmm so almost 50%. Better than usual lol

 

[Jason Frost]

http://i.imgur.com/mPkEvaY.jpg

Thanks.

 

[Keyouta]

65.2% conservative here vs 25% liberal. Lots of people angry and scared about the new government.

 

[23qwerty]

ksharp right now

 

[Sibylus]

I think that's the clear contender for flukiest win of the election.

Alternatively, a decade of queer and religiously non-aligned youth growing up under Harper getting fed up?

Seriously, lot o' witches around here.

 

[UberTag]

65.2% conservative here. Lots of people angry and scared about the new government.

Are they raiding the local grocery stores to stockpile food, water and other emergency supplies?

 

[IndoAssassin]

Im watching a show on my pvr and a conservative commercial came on. Is there a reason why harper even has campaign promises? I mean, why wasnt he doing any of that stuff before the election?

Because his agenda is to remove the Charter of Human Rights, and in order to do that he has to be a politician to win 90% of the seats.

 

[CitizenVectron]

19 ridings still being decided.
I've only been able to isolate 14 of them.

Anyone know which ones I'm missing?

Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou
Burnaby South
Calgary Centre
Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River
Edmonton Centre
Edmonton Mill Woods
Hochelaga
Kenora
Longueuil-Saint-Hubert
Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup
Regina-Lewvan
Richmond Centre
Salaberry-Suroît
Trois-Rivières

Regina-Lewvan has gone NDP.

 

[Mysterious]

Between all 10 provinces, Saskatchewan is the only one whose government is not Liberal or NDP.

 

[Apathy]

ksharp right now

How will he ever make ends meet with only 200k per year, won't someone think of ksharp

 

[Stumpokapow]

Canada's 2015 ENPP (effective number of political parties):
2.48

Canada's 2011 ENPP:
2.41

2008:
3.14

2006:
3.22

So power is less concentrated than it was last time but more concentrated than either of Harper's minorities. We're back to being a two-and-a-half party state.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

At least Gille Duceppe lost again.

I'm happy about that.

 

[orochi91]

What's the Voter Turnout looking like?

We close to 70% yet?

 

[Slavik81]

But holy crap at Calgary - if you back oil, you get the Calgary vote.

Many Albertans do not trust parties based out east to actually represent their interests. My father has never let me forget the time he voted for Trudeau, and was stabbed in the back in return.

That is why you can see liberal politics municipally and provincially, but strong Conservative support federally: they are seen as a regional party.

The fact that the Liberals won a few seats is actually amazing. They haven't done that since 1968. He has a real chance to show things have changed, but if Justin treats the west like his father did, they won't again until the 2040s.

 

[Mysterious]

What's the Voter Turnout looking like?

We close to 70% yet?

Voter Turnout: 16,438,544 of 25,638,379 registered electors (64.12 %) -- does not include electors who registered on election day.

 

[dragonfart28]

Between all 10 provinces, Saskatchewan is the only one whose government is not Liberal or NDP.

This is the best part.

We will have the most co-operative set of government leaders in our history. Brad Wall will adjust - he's probably the most level headed conservative out there.

 

[Sean C]

Between all 10 provinces, Saskatchewan is the only one whose government is not Liberal or NDP.

The Tories are still in charge in Newfoundland...for a few more weeks.

 

[Azzanadra]

At least Gille Duceppe lost again.

I'm happy about that.

He still essentially wasted 10 seats in Parliament

Seriously, does the bloc actually do anything? .

 

[mo60]

The NDP is now tied for the second best result in an election now. At least it wasn't a complete wipeout like the Liberals last election.Their popular vote is still lower than that election were they also got 43 seats.I hope they do better next time.

 

[dragonfart28]

Also, Canada did what UKant

 

[Kinsei]

The NDP is now tied for the second best result in an election now. At least it wasn't a complete wipeout like the Liberals last election.Their popular vote is still lower than that election were they also got 43 seats.I hope they do better next time.

Now that Harper is out I think they will.

 

[itschris]

Wow, my riding in Winnipeg (Elmwood-Transcona) has been crazy close all night. All the votes have been counted, and it looks like the NDP candidate defeated the Conservative incumbent by 51 votes!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sp...na/Elmwood---Transcona-results-334347131.html

With this late result, all of Winnipeg is non-Conservative.

 

[Tiktaalik]

1. gutter_trash was right.
2. Hopefully Dianne Watts holds onto White Rock so I don't have to eat my hat.

 

[mo60]

Now that Harper is out I think they will.

The conservatives may drop to third or lower in the next election.The conservatives are barely at 100 seats right now. They must be sad right now.

 

[Sean C]

[url="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/voters-wanted-change-they-got-it/article26882159/]G&M editorial: "Voters wanted change. They got it."[/url]

I'd love to know what sort of endorsement the editorial staff would have written without the owner dictating the choice.

 

[dragonfart28]

The NDP is now tied for the second best result in an election now. At least it wasn't a complete wipeout like the Liberals last election.Their popular vote is still lower than that election were they also got 43 seats.I hope they do better next time.

We are looking good moving foward.

As long as the NDP and Liberals can continue play equally appealing platforms, and we continue to have accurate polling, there will always be the option to strategically vote Tories out of power.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Kelowna going Liberal is the most insane result of the election.

 

[Sean C]

Wow, my riding in Winnipeg (Elmwood-Transcona) has been crazy close all night. All the votes have been counted, and it looks like the NDP candidate defeated the Conservative incumbent by 51 votes!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sp...na/Elmwood---Transcona-results-334347131.html

With this late result, all of Winnipeg is non-Conservative.

Congratulations. May you know the joys of a non-Conservative MP.

The Tories really got slaughtered in the cities outside of Alberta.

 

[Leeness]

1. gutter_trash was right.
2. Hopefully Dianne Watts holds onto White Rock so I don't have to eat my hat.

Noooo whyyyyyy do you hate us?

 

[UberTag]

Down to 8 seats still being counted. I've only pegged 6 of them.

Burnaby South
Calgary Centre
Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River
Edmonton Mill Woods
Kenora
Richmond Centre

 

[itschris]

Lawrence Toet was the Conservative MP responsible for this mailout:

I'm glad he's gone (hopefully, at least, I don't know what the system is for recounts in Canada).

 

[Sean C]

I don't expect the House of Commons to meet before the New Year (and in any event, it takes time to draft bills, etc., so rushing the House into session wouldn't serve much purpose), but things I'd like to see Trudeau announce quickly would include the appointment of his Senate advisory panel. I'm sure he'll want to get the Senate back up to full strength in time for the next session of Parliament, as I'm sure he'll have plenty of legislation to pass.

 

[Walpurgis]

I hate to tell you this, but he's been appointing lower court judges all this time. Guess who Trudeau gets to pick from?

Has that helped him at all? The Supreme Court does its job well and properly as far as I know. I haven't noticed any partisan garbage like in America.

Elmwood Transcona is driving me nuts. Traditional NDP... went Con by 300 votes last time. I spent all day pulling the vote, and it's been as close as 1 vote difference as the last few polls come in.

They have just declared Blaikie the winner by 51 votes.

It's driving me insane as well. If Toet wins, it will be the only Conservative riding in Winnipeg. I can't live in the only Conservative riding in Winnipeg. It's too shameful.

I'm honestly surprised at how much of a fight Blaikie is putting. I knew that the Liberals would make major gains because of uninformed ABC voters and figured that the NDP would be the biggest loser. It seems that both CPC and NDP voters have switched to Liberal in equal measure.

CBC's election dashboard is saying that Toet is winning by 148 votes but they just had Blaikie declared as the winner 2 minutes ago... I have a feeling that this won't have a happy ending for me.

At least Gille Duceppe lost again.

I'm happy about that.

Yeah, that was good to see.