PEI General Election 2015

[the506]

2-vote win for the Liberals in Vernon River-Stratford: http://results.electionspei.ca/district/5.htm
And Georgetown-St. Peter's comes down to the advance vote: http://results.electionspei.ca/district/2.htm

[Hatman 🍁]

Turnout 84%.

Wow! 7 point increase from 2011. Alberta will  be lucky to hit 60%.

Georgetown-St. Peter's is close enough that the advance vote could go either way and swing the riding. PCs have the advantage though; riding has never gone Liberal.

[adma]

Seems to me that take away the advance polls, and the PCs would have about 3-4 more seats (incl. Lantz's) and NDP one...

[Hatman 🍁]

All the polls are in now:

[136or142]

Liberal: 33,481 40.8% 18
P.C: 30,663 37.4% 8
NDP: 8,997 11.0%
Green: 8,857 10.8% 1

NDP
Above 10% of vote: 13 ridings
below 10% of vote: 14 ridings

2nd Place 1 riding
3rd place 17 ridings
4th place 9 ridings

Green
Above 10% of vote: 9 ridings
Below 10% of vote: 15 ridings
No candidate: 3 ridings

[adma]

And once again, my favouritely-named elected politician, Bush Dumville (cue the Crawford, TX jokes), is reelected...

[136or142]

I like Buck Watts though I'd prefer Buck Naked.

[DC Al Fine]

Yeah, NDP won't have any seat. Early vote was counted in Lewis Point and Liberals won by 109 votes.

NDP has been having it really rough in Atlantic Canada in recent years.

Well, honestly, they deserve it. Follow the Green strategy. Focus totally on your leader and get it elected. Don't run him in a random rural or suburban riding (like Cardy or Redmond did).

Well, Cardy ran in Fredericton. But yeah, they should've learned their lesson.

Ironically, the AB Liberals seem to have learned it. CBC does a little "where the leaders are" article every day, and Swann is door knocking in his riding most of the time.

[the506]

And once again, my favouritely-named elected politician, Bush Dumville (cue the Crawford, TX jokes), is reelected...

He used to own the local Burger King franchise and did his own commercials. Master salesman he wasn't.

https://youtu.be/tQgk5yWOeJ8?t=22m18s

[lilTommy]

Yeah, NDP won't have any seat. Early vote was counted in Lewis Point and Liberals won by 109 votes.

NDP has been having it really rough in Atlantic Canada in recent years.

Well, honestly, they deserve it. Follow the Green strategy. Focus totally on your leader and get it elected. Don't run him in a random rural or suburban riding (like Cardy or Redmond did).

Well, Cardy ran in Fredericton. But yeah, they should've learned their lesson.

Ironically, the AB Liberals seem to have learned it. CBC does a little "where the leaders are" article every day, and Swann is door knocking in his riding most of the time.

The NDP did not learn from the failures in NB, and the success of the Greens. The problem is the party is trying to run a full campaign and you just can't really do that with no seats. Also the NDP in both NB and PEI were polling much stronger before the election was called then they did come vote day.

[the506]

Vernon River-Stratford recount ends in a tie. Liberals win by coin toss. Seriously.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/liberal-alan-mcisaac-wins-seat-in-coin-toss-after-recount-tie-1.3079433

[136or142]

Vernon River-Stratford recount ends in a tie. Liberals win by coin toss. Seriously.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/liberal-alan-mcisaac-wins-seat-in-coin-toss-after-recount-tie-1.3079433

Who do they think they are, the Manitoba NDP?

[DC Al Fine]

Yeah, NDP won't have any seat. Early vote was counted in Lewis Point and Liberals won by 109 votes.

NDP has been having it really rough in Atlantic Canada in recent years.

Well, honestly, they deserve it. Follow the Green strategy. Focus totally on your leader and get it elected. Don't run him in a random rural or suburban riding (like Cardy or Redmond did).

Well, Cardy ran in Fredericton. But yeah, they should've learned their lesson.

Ironically, the AB Liberals seem to have learned it. CBC does a little "where the leaders are" article every day, and Swann is door knocking in his riding most of the time.

The NDP did not learn from the failures in NB, and the success of the Greens. The problem is the party is trying to run a full campaign and you just can't really do that with no seats. Also the NDP in both NB and PEI were polling much stronger before the election was called then they did come vote day.

I wouldn't call PEI a failure for the NDP. It's a tiny rural place, not exactly fertile ground for them. At least New Brunswick has a university town and a small industrial city for the NDP to compete in. In PEI there's nothing.

[Hatman 🍁]

Umm, PEI also has a university

[DC Al Fine]

Umm, PEI also has a university

Technically yes, but in terms of economic impact, UNB has a much greater influence on Fredericton than UPEI does on Charlottetown.