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On October 20 2015 11:45 Wolfstan wrote: I really hope trudeau jr doesn't follow his fathers gutting of Alberta. I also hope we get to keep this years tfsa contribution room.
i hope they dont roll it back at all
they're also not going to change this years contribution room
My riding, which has been NDP for as long as anyone can remember, to the point where last year we joked vote NDP or your vote doesn't matter, is now Liberal.
They're still doing the counting, but I laughed hard when I saw the Liberals are actually winning it. Did not expect my vote to make a difference.
On October 20 2015 11:46 killa_robot wrote: My riding, which has been NDP for as long as anyone can remember, to the point where last year we joked vote NDP or your vote doesn't matter, is now Liberal.
They're still doing the counting, but I laughed hard when I saw the Liberals are actually winning it. Did not expect my vote to make a difference.
In my riding, it was a dead tie between Conservative and NDP in the polls, and now the Conservative is massively leading with the NDP person in third behind the Liberal. So basically, if a person followed the strategic voting stuff in my riding they would have actually split the vote even more.
I think this is a great result. My riding was liberal by 600 seats or so, glad I was one of the many who voted liberal. Man...I can breathe a sigh of relief. I think this could be the end of first past the post...amongst many other bad things. YAY
edit: By the way does anyone else feel bad for Thomas Mulcair? 30 seats?? That's got to be *pretty* depressing. I would honestly just curl up in my bed and sleep...but no, you have to make a concession speech in front of a room of people lol.
On October 20 2015 12:01 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: I think the prestigious "most one sided riding award" goes to Kevin Sorenson in Battle River-Crowfoot at 81.3% Conservative.
Judy Foote of Bonavista-Burin-Trinity in Newfoundland won that by 0.5% with 81.8% of the vote. Either way that's insane.
Edit: Nunavut is quite interesting. It's really close.
On October 20 2015 12:00 radscorpion9 wrote: I think this is a great result. My riding was liberal by 600 seats or so, glad I was one of the many who voted liberal. Man...I can breathe a sigh of relief. I think this could be the end of first past the post...amongst many other bad things. YAY
edit: By the way does anyone else feel bad for Thomas Mulcair? 30 seats?? That's got to be *pretty* depressing. I would honestly just curl up in my bed and sleep...but no, you have to make a concession speech in front of a room of people lol.
He had a tough job to start with.
The unusually high number of NPD seats from 2011 was not sustainable.
Quebec plays kingmaker. Mulcair needed to have run a campaign as if he had 30 seats, instead he ran a campaign that assumed Quebec was his. He should have known better.
People will give a lot of credit to Trudeau and his campaign and what not, but really Quebec voters were just waiting to see which anti-Harper wind was gaining strength before they jumped on board.
On October 20 2015 12:23 CorsairHero wrote: joe oliver lost hahahah
Somehow not shocked but either way I'm pretty happy about that, Oliver was among my least favourite Conservatives. Fingers are still crossed that Pierre Poilievre will lose. That guy makes my skin crawl as much as Oliver.