OT: Canadian Federal Election

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Does anybody know where there is a listing of the popular vote?

www.globeandmail.ca

[BlackRose]

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, 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 ]

[Suicide Junkie]

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.

[TerranC]

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

[BlackRose]

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

[David E. Gervais]

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!

[Suicide Junkie]

Thanks...

Just gonna clean it up a bit for easy reading:

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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

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[BlackRose]

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%

[David E. Gervais]

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!

[Renegade 13]

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.