PEI Election 2007

[Verily]

Forgive me if there's already a thread. The election is on May 28, so it's coming right up. Advance polls already started on Saturday.

The Progressive Conservatives have governed Prince Edward Island since 1996 but look to possibly lose out to the Liberals this time around. The most recent poll shows the Liberals leading 49-42.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/peivotes2007/story/2007/05/22/ghiz-poll.html

PEI elections are usually rather boring as the PCs and Liberals really aren't that different there and the NDP and Greens are nonentities. The NDP are only running 15/27 candidates and the Greens only 18/27. The Tory government has been rather inoffensive, but they've been in a while and so will probably lose.

[Hatman 🍁]

Damn... beat me to it.

One interesting thing is there will be entirely new ridings this time. Only a handful have the same names as last time. Apparently there was quite a bit of controversy over gerrymandering. One will note that Charlottetown will be considerably under-represented.

[Verily]

Election is today. Very high turnout was reported in advance polls; 15% voted before election day. Turnout is expected to be somewhere around 85%.

There have been no polls other than the one showing the Liberals leading, so it has yet to be seen if the Liberals really do have the advantage.

[Hatman 🍁]

Election is today. Very high turnout was reported in advance polls; 15% voted before election day. Turnout is expected to be somewhere around 85%.

There have been no polls other than the one showing the Liberals leading, so it has yet to be seen if the Liberals really do have the advantage.

Turnout is usually high on the island. I havent checked what time the polls close; I sure hope it's not 9pm ADT. There's something far more important to watch at that time

[Verily]

Election is today. Very high turnout was reported in advance polls; 15% voted before election day. Turnout is expected to be somewhere around 85%.

There have been no polls other than the one showing the Liberals leading, so it has yet to be seen if the Liberals really do have the advantage.

Turnout is usually high on the island. I havent checked what time the polls close; I sure hope it's not 9pm ADT. There's something far more important to watch at that time

CBC says that 15% advance voting was apparently a record for PEI, so turnout may be even higher than usual.

[Hatman 🍁]

Sweet. Polls close at 6pm EDT, two hours before the game starts.

I really hope the Liberals win, since Pat Binns' gerrymandering is a sign of horrible corruption. Of course I'd like to see the NDP win a seat, but that's not going to happen. I just hope they get more votes than the Green Party which may be difficult.

[Gabu]

I really hope the Liberals win

I'm gonna save this quote for posterity.

[Verily]

I just hope they get more votes than the Green Party which may be difficult.

I think they will. Sharon Labchuk's whole policy platform is about organic foods and yogic healing. I mean, I eat mostly organic and I like yoga, but that's not a serious party platform.


I'm glad polls close early, too.

[Hatman 🍁]

I just hope they get more votes than the Green Party which may be difficult.

I think they will. Sharon Labchuk's whole policy platform is about organic foods and yogic healing. I mean, I eat mostly organic and I like yoga, but that's not a serious party platform.


I'm glad polls close early, too.

Sounds like the Natural Law Party

I really hope the Liberals win

I'm gonna save this quote for posterity.

Oh shush, Gabu.

[Hatman 🍁]

Oh, all four leaders were in the debate. How strange.

[Hatman 🍁]

A result in already. The advance polls came in from Alberton, and the Liberal has an 85 vote lead. That would be a pick up. Looks like the Liberals will win lol

[Hatman 🍁]

Liberals are landsliding this one. they lead 19-5 now.

[Gabu]

Liberals are landsliding this one. they lead 19-5 now.

20-6 now, according to the CBC.

Oh, and the Greens are beating the NDP in votes thus far...

[Hatman 🍁]

Election has been called for the Liberals

and yeah the NDP is blowing hard chunks. oh well

[Gabu]

Charlottetown-Brighton and Cornwall-Meadowbank have both re-elected their Liberal representatives.

[Gabu]

The Liberals have now taken the lead in two three two one two of the six ridings in which the PC had been leading... ouch.

[Verily]

Sleeping because I've been sick today and I miss all of the results. Oh well. Only Vernon River-Stratford left to go. The Tories are reduced to their strongholds in eastern PEI.

And apparently organic foods sell better than social democracy on the Island.

Not really a landslide in the popular vote, but the Liberal vote was very efficient.

[Hatman 🍁]

Complete reversal. Liberals go from 5 seats to giving the tories 4 or 5 seats.

As for the NDP, clearly Dean Constable is an ineffective leader. He spoke well from what I saw of him in the debate, but clearly there is some organizing problems under his leadership. That, and PEI is such a traditional province in terms of its politics.

[Hatman 🍁]

I wonder if Cardigan will ever go Conservative federally. Maybe if Lawrence McCaulley steps down, they'll have a shot. That area is clearly a bastion for Conservativism in provincial politics.

[Gabu]

I'm waiting for those stupid last polls to report so I can complete a map by filling in the ridings in which the percentages are on the cusp of a multiple of ten.

[Hatman 🍁]

I'm waiting for those stupid last polls to report so I can complete a map by filling in the ridings in which the percentages are on the cusp of a multiple of ten.

LOL

I'm doing the same thing!

[Verily]

I wonder if Cardigan will ever go Conservative federally. Maybe if Lawrence McCaulley steps down, they'll have a shot. That area is clearly a bastion for Conservativism in provincial politics.

It went Tory in 1984, if that helps (only Charlottetown didn't, IIRC).

[Hatman 🍁]

I wonder if Cardigan will ever go Conservative federally. Maybe if Lawrence McCaulley steps down, they'll have a shot. That area is clearly a bastion for Conservativism in provincial politics.

It went Tory in 1984, if that helps (only Charlottetown didn't, IIRC).

I know, but it will be interesting. Coincidentlally, it was Pat Binns who won it in 1984

[Gabu]

I'm waiting for those stupid last polls to report so I can complete a map by filling in the ridings in which the percentages are on the cusp of a multiple of ten.

LOL

I'm doing the same thing!

RUSTICO-EMERALD HURRY UP ALREADY GOD

[Gabu]

While we're waiting for those slowpokes, I might bring this to attention.  A little off-base, to say the least...