Canada 2008: Official Results Thread

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I awake! Tea. I. Need. Tea. Now.

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Olivia Chow trailing in Trinity-Spadina...

Hardly any votes there yet. Wait a while.

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Look at how many votes (and polls!) are in before reporting things in exited tones here!

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Damn BQ got creamed tonight.

Not really. Just a poor performance.

Well they were expected to do pretty well and yet they look like they will lose seats overall but yeah creamed maybe not the right word.

Especially as we don't know where the results in so far are actually coming from!

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Newfies: Liberals have won all seat but one, that exception being St John's East... where Jack Harris has taken something like three quarters of the vote. Only Avalon was relatively close.

PEI: 3 Liberals, 1 Tory (Egmont).

NB: 5 Tories, 3 Liberals, 1 Bloc Acadian (er... NDP). Saint John is extremely close, but is almost all in now. Looks likely to be 6 Tories, but we'll see. Tories nearly gained *Moncton*.

NS: 5 Liberals, 3 Tories, 2 Dippers and a Wettish Tory Indy. Headlines reported elsewhere.

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CBC are, as usual, being a little too quick to call some places. We don't want any "Charest's Lost!" f*** ups now, do we...

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Roberval is very close.

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Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar is entirely too close at the moment...

Which could mean all sorts of things. With Saskatchewan rurban ridings you have to wait a while before it becomes clear what's going on.

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West Vancouver looking like an epic fail for the Greens.

Only 9 out of close to 250 polls are in...

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Results seem to be drying up for a bit. Time for more tea.

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CBC says turnout could be a historic low (mid 50's)

Well, of course it was low. Everyone knew who was going to win, and that party was the incumbent government.

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Gatineau. Everyone look at Gatineau!

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Quite a big swing to the Tories in fast-growth areas

Holy crap - where did that come from?

Dipper candidate was once the Liberal M.P for the area and was a local media personality before that.

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CBC has declared that the Fascist has held Newbridge. He probably has, but there's still a lot left to count and he's not up by much. 'cmon Bloc!

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The NDP may have taken Sudbury. I'm actually a little shocked; of the two Nickleland seats that one's always been surprisingly resistent to the Socialist charge...

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CBC called Edmonton-Strathcona a long time ago, but Linda Duncan has now come extremely close (within three points) with still 78 polls out. Maybe they know more than I do about what's out.

Like I said earlier, CBC are getting stupid with this early calling.

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Keeper is currently third in Churchill. Now, I'm guessing that the rez hasn't come in yet and she may make it respectable, but... well... oh, and poll results there will look soooooooo ugly.

The NDP may have taken Sudbury. I'm actually a little shocked; of the two Nickleland seats that one's always been surprisingly resistent to the Socialist charge...

Sudbury is the surprise result of the night, I think.

I can't believe it actually.

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bq is in trouble in brome-missisquoi

Well spotted. A possible Liberal takeback in the Estrie; not something anyone had predicted, I think.

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NDP leads in Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar... by 9 votes. 15 polls left, recent results to come in have favored the Conservatives. The gerrymandering of Saskatchewan is so blatant in this election; the NDP have 25.49% but may win no seats at all, while the Liberals have a safe seat with only 14.78% of the vote.

Yes, it's just dreadful. Oh well. I hope Wiebe can pull this off, but...

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I love Hamilton.

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Block ahead in SRB. I know I've complained enough about the boundaries in Saskatchewan over the years, but this year it just looks obscene.

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The Bloc has let me down in parts of Quebec. Pull yourselves together! The Saguenay should not be largely represented by Tories! That little fascist Arthur should have been beaten!

Block ahead in SRB. I know I've complained enough about the boundaries in Saskatchewan over the years, but this year it just looks obscene.

At least Edmonton-Strathcona is continuing to go in the right direction. Also, there's no real way to tell what those last ten polls in SRB will do.

I'm expecting the worst so that I can be very happy if I'm wrong.

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Welland is interesting

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How's this for a polarised result;

NDP 46, Con 40, Lib 6, Grn 6, CHP 1

(Blaikie-less Transcona)

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My god. When are boundaries redrawn?

I think before the next election. Think means hope. But there's been a new census.

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And that was with sane boundaries. But that was also before the great shift of the rural poor to the big cities was completed (or even halfway, really).

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It's not the only one.