Canadian by-elections, 2012

[DC Al Fine]

Who's the Tory candidate in Durham?

[DC Al Fine]

Supreme Court of Canada overturns lower courts decsion on By-Election in Etobicoke Centre.

Ted Opitz remains the Conservative MP for Etobicoke Centre
No need for a By-Election

*Breathes sigh of relief*

[DC Al Fine]

Will the Liberals be running a star candidate in Bourassa?

[DC Al Fine]

Crap poll from the same people who said Wildrose and the PQ would win thumping majorities.

Uhh... I wouldn't discount Forum Research. After all, everyone predicted the WR would win, and FR was the only pollster to catch a last minute switch to the PCs.

FR did a good job with the provincial by-election in Waterloo.

Greens, 20+% in Calgary. Sure they might be right, but that result has no other polls to back it up and is incredibly wacky. I'll stay skeptical for now.

[DC Al Fine]

Wow, Liberals, just wow. When was the last time they were competent?

[DC Al Fine]

lol nice. Would rather the Tories win CC than the Libs. If it were AV my vote would be 1) NDP 2) Greens 3) Tories 4) Liberals

Why did you put the Grits 4th?

[DC Al Fine]

Read it. Neat stuff.

I'll go negative here and predict:

Calgary Centre: Liberal (to go Tory again in 2015)
Durham: Conservative
Victoria: NDP

[DC Al Fine]

Random question: does Canada have the same "if you're in line when polls closed then you get to vote" standard as U.S. elections? I'm aware that line-ups are rarely longer than 15 or 20 minutes so it's not really as much of an issue.

Not sure if this is universal, but that has been my experience scrutineering.

[DC Al Fine]

Random question: does Canada have the same "if you're in line when polls closed then you get to vote" standard as U.S. elections? I'm aware that line-ups are rarely longer than 15 or 20 minutes so it's not really as much of an issue.

I think so. I've never seen it happen though. Whenever I've scrutineered, there is barely anyone around when the polls close. But then again, polls close late in Ontario to accommodate the west. (compare Durham is closing at 9:30 local time and Calgary Centre is at 7:30 local time).

Things are different in the UK, right? I remember huge issues in their last election.

To those who already scrutineered, does lanes are common, or quite rare?

There's usually a 10-20 people lined up when the polls close. It's not really hard to process.

[DC Al Fine]

Man, that would be awesome for the Tories if the Greens won Victoria. 3 credible left of centre parties splitting the vote. *drools*