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Canada's elections - October 14
Lumière:
So...
It's pretty much sure to be another PC minority. Harper will not be very pleased, will he? :)
I expected to see more Liberal seats...
I'll have more coherent thoughts later. =)
Sheriff Roland:
Yes.
Where the rest of the world is turning it's back on conservative 'ways' (British Isles, U.S.A.), we in Canada have given the Conservatives a stronger (though still minority) mandate. :P
Toronto's still not giving up seats to the conservatives, and the North has gone completely orange (NDP). Greater Toronto (the 905 region) has done what they'd done with Mulrony in the 80's & with Harris in the 90's - they went blue.
If the Conservatives had not blundered in Quebec, they would have had a majority government.
Toronto and the North aside, Ontario's given more seats to the Torys.
Lumière:
--- Quote from: Sheriff Roland on October 14, 2008, 11:28:13 pm ---...
If the Conservatives had not blundered in Quebec, they would have had a majority government.
Toronto and the North aside, Ontario's given more seats to the Torys.
--- End quote ---
Agreed.
I was happy to see that the Green Party went up (even though there is a chance they won't get any actual seats).
I voted Green. I knew where they stood compared to the other parties.
I was hoping for a few Green MPs...
The other 'interesting' piece of info in all this is that less than 60% of eligible voters actually went out to vote. That translates to about 10 million people NOT voting.
Makes you wonder how differently things may have turned out & why such a huge percentage of people just weren't interested enough to vote..
David In Indy:
I don't understand much of the terminology you all are using so please forgive me if my question comes across as ignorant, but do you all know who won yet? Was this an election for a new Prime Minister? I remember John Harper being elected in a few years ago. I watched the election process on C-Span although I really didn't understand what was going on. I also remember watching John Harper give his acceptance speech.
How long between the elections for Prime Minister?
I'm sorry if I sound like an ignorant American (and I must confess I am) but I'm very interested in these elections in other countries and I don't always understand them. I'd love to learn though! :D
Comcast moved C-Span to its digital line-up so I couldn't watch the Canadian elections tonight. >:(
Sheriff Roland:
In a federal election (entire country, as opposed to provincial or municipal election), you vote for one candidate to represent your riding (or district). The party that manages to get the most seats (one per riding) elected gets to form the government. Before the election, each party already has their leader and that leader needs to get elected in a riding just like all other Members of Parliament (MPs).
Should the leader not be able to be elected (as was the case for the Conservatives in Ontario's last provincial election) he might remain the leader of it's party but he's be less effective as he wouldn't have a voice in Parliament. Whenever it's happened in the past on the federal level, he would either step down or run in a by-election in a 'safe' riding.
In this case, all 4 major party leaders (The Green are still without a single seat so they don't have a voice in parliament) were elected in their riding. As a matter of fact, all the major candidates who ran for the job of Liberal leader a year (or two) ago, won their riding.
In summary ...
There will not be a seperate vote for Prime Minister. You get one vote: for your MP. And the party leader of the party that wins most seats becomes Prime Minister, even if he doesn't have a majority of the seats in Parliament.
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