PEI Provincial election 2019

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Eagerly awaiting a Green win immediately followed by their reneging on their promise of electoral reform.

Heh. I would very much doubt that would happen (the latter, I mean).

As much as I used to hate the Greens, I think I would be very pleased to see them win on PEI. The NDP there is useless.

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Who knows, it's uncharted territory. 40% could get them anywhere from only a few seats in Charlottetown, to almost every seat on the island.

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I'm sure there will be a large correlation between Green vote and the vote in favour of PR from the recent referendum. Basically, the closer the riding is to Charlotteotown, the more likely the Greens will win.

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All campaigns have been suspended. Apparently a Green Party candidate and his child were killed in an accident of some sort. That's the rumour, anyway.

ETA: Apparently a capsized canoe.

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CBC is now reporting it was Josh Underhay, the candidate in Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park

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it will probably fail, these things often do. I wonder though if it gets 50% of the popular vote (but not the 60% of seats), and the Greens win, do they go ahead with it anyway? I think I remember hearing they would "respect the outcome" of the referendum, though.

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Now I really hope PBB goes for the Premiership just to give the people who don't understand the Westminster system another data point proving them wrong.

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Is a coalition government likely?

No. Coalitions almost never happen in Canada.

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Percentage of the vote that was cast early:
PC: 48%
Grn: 41%
Lib: 52%
NDP: 50%
Total: 47%

Have advance/early votes *always* been this massive in PEI?

It was pretty high last time too. Very annoying.