greens win a riding

LOL @ the Bloc!

Even quebecers don't want them anymore.

But the rise of NDP isn't all that better from what I understand.

Anyways as a quebecer, I can say that I find these results very amusing.

I am happy to see the Bloc taken down. For years their crap has had too much influence on Canada, pouring billions into Quebec at the expense of everyone else.

I wasn't surprised by the Conservative Majority, or the NDP forming the official opposition, but I am surprised by the extent of both (due to the complete collapse of the BQ and Liberals). I was talking to people earlier today and I predicted a small conservative majority (~155), a weak official opposition NDP (~80), a weakened liberal party (~50), and a weakened Bloq (~25).

Shit. The Liberal/NDP vote splitting gave the Conservatives the win in my riding. I actually didn't vote but if I did I would have voted NDP anyway because that riding was supposed to be a "safe" win for the Liberals. So much for that "safe" bullshit. Prediction polls ain't shit I guess.

My riding incumbent (a Liberal) is currently losing by ~650 votes to the NDP candidate at this point (unoffical of course).

Comparing my area in the interactive map from today and 2008, the Liberals have lost 3 ridings (2 to NDP, 1 to Conservatives) and the Conservatives lost 1 to the Green Party. Everything else appears to be the same (mostly Conservative ridings).

Just some interesting observations in my little neck of the country.

Yeah,
if the Rest of Canada had not acted like asses during so many years you would not even have to bash the bloc at the moment. But because obvisoulsly most people here suck at History I will remind you that the party appeared because our federal state  failed to give itsself a  stupid constitution suported by every provinces.

But anyway, I guess it is always fun to blame them for every faillures in our political regime.

Now let's build some jails, let anybody have weapons without registering them and produce more of those delicious greenhouse gases. I should start believing thise evangelist/creationnist shit that thinks Jesus is going to get back on earth in Canada. Because we'll need it...

The weird thing about this election is that:

30% of Canadians voted for NPD (far left) 20% voted for Liberal (Left) and 40% for Conservative (Right).

The conservatives have a majority government... but most of the change in votes involved people going from liberal/bloc to NPD... meaning from left to far left.

And yet we have a Conservative minority, and a Prime Minister who I honestly believe has values and attitudes far more out of tune with the average Canadian than Ignatieff or Layton.

Although I think he is a much better leader than Layton. Harper is a very shrewd man and a strong leader... I just don't agree with his social policies (although i am fiscally conservative).

It's the vote splitting among the left. That gave the Conservatives a majority even though they only had 40% of the popular vote. I was opposed to the idea of strategic voting but honestly had I known that the Conservatives were going to take away my riding from the Liberals (NDP were a distant 3rd here), I would have voted Liberal. Projectdemocracy.ca said my riding was a safe Liberal seat but they ended up to be dead wrong. Every single poll in my riding leading up to the election turned out to be wrong. Epic fail. Even though I hate Ignatieff, Layton would have been the leader of the left coalition anyway. Now that Ignatieff was defeated in his own seat, hopefully the Liberals can find a competent leader to replace him. Some people will say that Layton is a spoiler and that people shouldn't have voted NDP because that split the vote. I don't necessarily think so. It depends on your riding. In my riding and many others I'm sure, NDP played spoiler. But nationwide, The NDP was the more dominant left-wing party this time.

I don't keep track of politics much since they are very much all bad to me, LOL.

I didn't vote for Harper though after the G20 bullshit that still have lawsuit going on.