PEI Election 2007

[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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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

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Election has been called for the Liberals

and yeah the NDP is blowing hard chunks. oh well

[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.

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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.

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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!

[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

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Those are some low population ridings. Probably a lot of the MPs have rang every doorbell in their district.

The're called MLA's

And here's my map which I put on Wikipedia



A guy on Wikipedia wanted me to use the template Gabu had, but I had already made one by that point, and I wasn't going to change. 

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Hmm, I guess that last poll in Rustico-Emerald swung it by 5%. I'll have to change my map.

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Oooh! They have results by poll too!

Time to go nuts, and make a poll by poll map!

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The're called MLA's

Unless you're from Ontario, who likes to be "different".

Actually, Quebec and Newfoundland are also different. Quebec has MNAs (Member of the National Assembly) and Newfoundland has MHAs (Member of the House of Assembly)

As for a poll by poll map, I made this rather quickly. I didn't bother with the detail in Charlottetown or Summerside, as all the polls there went Liberal (except 2 in Summerside which if you look closely, I put in)

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The Greens surpassed the NDP in popular vote. Lol.

Well, they did run more candidates.

[Hatman 🍁]

Only a few more, Greens had 18, NDP had 15 I believe, the Greens won 3%, NDP around 1%.

More candidates means more credibility among the voters, and results in  diproportionately more votes in this instance. The voters of PEI saw the lack of candidates the NDP had and it meant that they lost a lot of support. Plus, a Liberal tide will take away from the NDP quite a bit no matter where you are.