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LIB 37.05% (136 Seats)
CON 29.50% (95 Seats)
BQ 12.72% (54 Seats)
NDP 15.25% (22 Seats)
NA .09% (1 Seat)
OTH 5.39% (0 Seat)


Is what it was a few minutes ago. Pretty sickening, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Hopefully the NDP will cajole the Liberals into Electoral Reform

The Greens take the Lion Share of the OTHER vote and look to have locked in federal funding!

EDIT

Greens have 4.2% currently vs 0.8% Last election, more than Quadruple!

[ June 29, 2004, 04:13: Message edited by: BlackRose ]

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I meant the popular vote with details down to (in particular) the greens and the M-L party who were leading one seat for a while.

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Party Votes % of vote Leading Elected Total
Liberal Party of Canada 4424599 36.9% 12 124 136
Conservative Party of Canada 3539349 29.5% 13 83 96
Bloc Québécois 1519019 12.7% 2 51 53
New Democratic Party 1836691 15.3% 5 17 22
No affiliation 13188 0.1% 0 1 1
Green Party of Canada 506015 4.2% 0 0 0
Independent 43948 0.4% 0 0 0
Christian Heritage Party of Canada 36545 0.3% 0 0 0
Marijuana Party 29841 0.2% 0 0 0
Progressive Canadian Party 9753 0.1% 0 0 0
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada 7755 0.1% 0 0 0
Canadian Action Party 6564 0.1% 0 0 0
Communist Party of Canada 3797 0.0% 0 0 0
Libertarian Party of Canada 1388 0.0% 0 0 0

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http://www.globeandmail.ca/elections/fed2004/
or
http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/candid...ngs/index.html


Last Election

http://www.elections.ca/gen/rep/37g/table9_e.html

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I too voted green, I can't wait to see the final results in tomorrow's paper.

All in all, I think the green party has shown the biggest improvement of all the 'indipendants' I kind of hope the they get at least one seat in BC, it doesn't look like it, but hope they squeeze through.

Nuf said, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Thanks...

Just gonna clean it up a bit for easy reading:</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Party Votes % Leading/Elected/Total
Liberal 4424599 36.9% 12 124 136
Conservative 3539349 29.5% 13 83 96
Bloc 1519019 12.7% 2 51 53
NDP 1836691 15.3% 5 17 22
No affiliation 13188 0.1% 0 1 1
Green Party 506015 4.2% 0 0 0
Independent 43948 0.4% 0 0 0
Christian HP 36545 0.3% 0 0 0
Marijuana Party 29841 0.2% 0 0 0
Progressive 9753 0.1% 0 0 0
Marxist-Leninist 7755 0.1% 0 0 0
Canadian Action 6564 0.1% 0 0 0
Communist Party 3797 0.0% 0 0 0
Libertarian 1388 0.0% 0 0 0</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

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Yes it's all very interesting, too bad they dont get their coverage.

All other independant parties mostly had their %'s cut in half.

Liberals lost 10% of their previous popular vote

Conservatives lost 21.5%

NDP Gained 83%

Bloc Gained 18%

Green Gained 525%

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Oh, one thing, I think that seats in the house of commons should be given out based on popular votes. it would be a truer representation of the people's wishes, and it would also mean that every vote counts. As is in many ridings the people always feel that their votes don't count, because they have lost their riding. but in the big pic, they are often in the majority.

just a little note about how I feel about the seats in the house of commons.

BTW: the green party gets 4.2% of the popular vote (over 500,000) and has no representation in the house? that is just not right. The bloc got some 1.5million votes and 54 seats. by right Ithink the green party should have 12 seats of their own. Some lonely indipendant gets 13,000 votes and wins a seat. There is definately something wrong with our system, but I doubt it will ever change in my lifetime.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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One problem with seats based on popular votes:

How would you distribute the seats around the country?? Would you randomly distribute them? What? You could end up with a NDP incumbent in a riding that voted 70% Conservative...and THAT would not be right. They would not be getting the appropriate representation.