EDIT: If the elections.ca website is down for you, see here
Election Information
I recommend that you check the links yourself! I’ve copied some of the information below:
Ways to vote
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Vote on election day (April 28)
- Check the hours for your timezone
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Vote by mail
- This method is for those who requested mail-in ballots a while back.
- Make sure that you get in your ballot on time: elections.ca/voting-by-mail
- uses the special ballot process
Special Ballots
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Data on your district:
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PP lost his seat, didn’t he?
He may well have, lol.
he did
Hopefully the joker is out.
Still awake for this.
In all seriousness, even if he loses his seat he’ll get elected in another riding. They’ll push a con to resign in a safe riding and PP will run there. It could happen quickly too. The question is whether the party is going to kick him out or not.
I’m literally too excited to sleep haha! We’re gonna have a productive government that will catch up to the most advanced countries in the world. We will keep and expand upon dentalcare and pharmacare.
Going to keep myself in the dark until tomorrow morning. Good luck Canada’s democracy!
Edit: I see democracy has prevailed! And a minority with NDP holding the power balance is a favourable result for progressives!
I envy your willpower. My anxiety wouldn’t let me sleep tonight without at least checking how things are going.
Did someone take down 338canada.com or did we crash it?
E: Nope, it’s an attack. Apparently the French version works.
It’s working for me.
It’s been down for me on and off since yesterday
Nope, it’s an attack
I do not know that you should call it an attack, I am sure their servers are not used to the turn out and therefore the people just learning about the elections.
I’m basing that on the comment by the owner of 338canada. Also they use CloudFlare so it’s unlikely normal load could kill it. Instead I’m guessing someone DDoSed the actual server, behind CF.
PP’s riding update as of approximately midnight EST:
Image Source: Globalnews
Alternative: National Post > Just the subframe for Carleton
This might be the most interesting thing so far, actually, with the orange-blue swing votes in second place.
Poilievre could leave this as a freshly minted lobbyist: His first normal job.
Hopefully it’s in the American regime and we never see him again. Opps…was that out loud
Hopefully we’ve passed an inflection point now, and we’re not doomed to keep following their trajectory.
Iirc he’s got a 5 yr wait before he can register as a lobbyist.
That would make sense. Hmm. A desk job at Harper & Associates I guess, then.
Update about 00:35 EST
110/266polls reporting28,327votes reporting
Name Party votes Share Bruce Fanjoy LIB 14,52951.3%Pierre Poilievre* CON 12,81745.2%(source Globalnews)
Update about 01:05 EST
- 180/266 polls reporting
- 43,999 votes reporting
PP pulls up 0.5%
Name Party votes Share Bruce Fanjoy LIB 24,24851%Pierre Poilievre* CON 21,68845.6%Beth Prokaska NDP 7091.5%(source Globalnews)
Comment: Thy have counted 6709 votes in the past 30 minutes or so. This is the riding with 1 meter long ballots. What the fuck.
Update about 10:40 est
264/266 polls reporting
83,756 votes reporting
Bruce Fanjoy LIB 42,374 50.6%
Pierre Poilievre* CON 38,581 46.1%
Beth Prokaska NDP 1,190 1.4%
Same source as previous
Comment: that’s about 80% voter turnout
https://globalnews.ca/news/11153487/canada-election-pierre-poilievre-carleton-riding-results/
Carleton covers suburban parts of Ottawa, which is home to many workers in the federal public service that Poilievre vowed on the campaign trail to cut.
Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.
he ran scared of the media
He grew up at the knee of Harper. He’s only doing what he was taught.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
And now he needs to get his resume ready for the first time ever.
In the great words of Total Bastard Airlines, “Bu-Bye!”
And in the great words of a Canadian celebrity that I won’t name, who asked me over coffee looking for his first job, “What’s a resume”. As in let’s resume looking for a job.
It was Buddy Cole.
Crap like him always have some cushy job lined up for them. Like Jason Kenney and Atco.
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I hate his fucking guts to the core, and nothing I’m about to say should be viewed as forgiveness, but he does seem to genuinely be a useful shortsighted idiot with a side of abhramic god bigotry mixed in for good measure. Instead of being in on it as a member of Maple MAGA like I used to think.
He’s been consistent denouncing them…even late into his leadership while still in power he was. It’s why he rage quit after winning 51% leading to Smith…
The predictable to everyone but him outcome of Wildrose eating the “united” Progress Conservatives alive from within, seems to be the true story.
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You sure are, but that doesn’t invalidate your fears.
I hold to plenty of negative views that are deeply unpopular if i bring them up just because they’re negative.
The youth moved to the right. That’s scary. But, those kids are getting a front row seat to how fascist country devolves for the next 4 years.
I mean, he’s very, very good at the firehose-of-soundbites style of campaigning. The dude has literally gotten elected for every year of his working life on it.
His concession had a lot of poise and savvy. He’ll never win me over but I was impressed with his cooperative tone. But I know he hasn’t changed, and I know it is not in his nature to cooperate.
Just got this beautiful flyer hand delivered by the CPC to help me vote against the CPC:
Good information.
Given we live in a FPTP country, this is a worthwhile thing to consider as well: https://smartvoting.ca/ridings/federal-2025
You can look up your riding to see vote projections; you ultimately vote the system you have.
No harm to you at all, but I’m avoiding that site completely and advising everyone I work with and care about to stick with one of the other poll prediction sites like 338 if they have to use anything (scroll down for tl;dr).
Originally called polarispolls, smartvoting is run out of Polaris Entertainment.
When the smartvoting site was launched during the last Ontario election and started showing up on facebook/twitter/lemmy/etc, they didn’t include specific information about their (proprietary) methodology, but they’ve put together a pdf for the federal launch. If anyone cares to read it, it’s here.
Polaris Entertainment is made up of 3 people, afaict, and they’re all podcast influencers. The youtube link here is a joint podcast they did 5 months ago. In it, the guy who claims he made the smartvoting website suggests twice just in this one interview that the NDP should bow out federally. Pretty standard Hot Take these days so not particularly sus, except that it’s coming from a guy who made a vote recommendation website.
The person running the site used the royal WE a tonne when smartvoting was just one person during the Ontario election, and he now claims to have a “bipartisan data board.” The site also now has someone they’re naming as a general manager of the site, and she’s said the NDP is running a harassment campaign against them, which is affecting everyone’s mental health. Now, the same guy who claims he made the site says the reason he won’t name any of the people on his new board and won’t share any of his data is because of the NDP.
tl;dr: At best, smartvoting is a do-gooder project by someone trying to save us all from ourselves. With project 2025 rushing down the pipe and the mass media influence of the rightwing, I totally get it. People with fab intentions don’t always come up smelling like roses, and I never require Purity from my left allies. But at worst, smartvoting could be another disinfo campaign, claiming to be anti-conservative, openly interfering with our elections to amplify the appearance of division between Canadians on the left, when we’re already pretty cool with strategic voting and have been doing it when necessary for decades.
[disclaimer: this is the second comment I’ve left about being suspicious of this site since I made my lemmy account.]
There’s also 338Canada’s per-riding projection. There’s the one by Eric Grenier too (CBC Poll Tracker).
One should check more than one to ensure there’s no funny business going on.
An even better answer frankly
Well, let’s find out if we delay fascism for 4 years or not.
We best start fighting back regardless of how it turns out.
Oh yeah, to be clear if the libs win delay is absolutely the key word here. They won’t do shit to fight fascism so it’s up to the few that give a fuck to do it.
I suspect a lot of pivotal things will happen in the next 4 years. The fascists are at the point where they actually have to put things into practice, and that’s what brought them down the last time around. This election is just the first example.
So, maybe it’s not just a delay? Fingers crossed.
If it’s a minority government, the conservatives are going to be the opposition and they’re going to block everything.
They might still have to make a coalition with the NDP but most importantly, the Bloc québécois.
I really expect the NDP will be up for it. The Bloc might be dicier. ATM they still haven’t called a minority so I have a feeling the NDP will suffice.
Hoping for some kind of Conservative participation is a pipe dream, though, you’re right about that. I haven’t even heard it discussed.
They’ve adopted the republicans’ scummy ways since Harper. And it intensified during this election. We had social media influence to thank as well.
It’s up to us to demand that they fight it
Hahahahahahahaha.
Like actually though. Make them listen. Organize and withhold labour until we get PR and advances made against online hate speech.
CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp
CANADA DOESN’T HAVE A SMALL pp
Canada showed up!
The comment about Fanjoy potentially winning! Oooh roasted!
Bringing your voter information card with a driver’s license or any other Canadian Gov’t issued card with photo, name and address is like having a FastPass for voting.
I have mixed emotions today. I grieved for a few days after tRump was elected in 2024, processing the state and direction of the US. I’ve never had such a powerful reaction to election results before. I’m guarding myself for the possibility that PP forms a minority government. Improbable but possible. I would hurt and be worried, like I was after tRump last fall.
I voted in the advance polls over Easter weekend, when 7.2 million Canadians turned out iirc. I felt a greater than usual sense of civic duty amongst voters in the voting station - like people felt it especially important to have their voice heard in this election.
Voting typically inspires some pride in me about this country we are fortunate to call home. And although I’ve nervously been checking CBC News today for issues at polling stations, I also take pride in our voting process. The shit that goes on in the States in and around voting stations is obscene and very undemocratic. Thankfully I’ve read about no voting-related issues so far. (Our thoughts though are with the Filipino community and everyone affected by the tragedy in BC.)
Ideally, I’d like to have a Liberal minority with an NDP coalition. Second best would be a Liberal majority. I think that’s the most likely outcome. For ABC reasons (especially now that C is MAGA-lite), I’d accept it.
tRump’s comments today - presumably undermining PP’s votes more than anything - surprised me. As did some comments DoFo made about PP and Carney over the weekend. It made me realize that the Conservative party leaders (Marlaina, schMoe, DoFo, PP) in this country have quite different relationships with the other adjacent political forces (i.e., Carney and tRump).
I’m looking forward to election coverage tonight! And I hope to breathe a sigh of relief soon. Don’t @#$% this one up, Canada!
I had 3 people in front of me at my polling booth, got out in 10 minutes. I think that is the longest its taken me to vote in years. I always go first thing in the morning, lol. Hate lineups.
Longest wait I encountered was for the guy sitting by the door to look up from his phone. Registered and voted in moments, no lines.
I may as well get to bed, but I wish I would know before if the NDP will have enough seats to prop up an LPC minority. I’d hate to see the LPC+NDP be one or two seats short, leaving the CPC/BQ with enough votes to stymie everything. Right now it’s sitting at 170 combined, need 172 or more to make it work.
LPC+NDP could be 171 and be ok on current numbers, with the 1 GRN projected reaching a majority without needing BQ. Still…they’re 1 short of that.
You assume Carney would prefer working with the NDP over the BQ? I wouldn’t be surprised if he preferred the BQ if only to strike a congenial tone and try to garner more support there so next time his majority is not in doubt
I’m not Canadian. Just an amateur psephologist who loves talking the theory of politics. I don’t have my own sense of which party they’d rather work with.
I based that assumption on what other comments seemed to be making. Which was, yes, that Liberals would choose NDP over BQ.
Quite possible, but I stand by my prediction that the BQ is their more likely dance partner this time around. Not always, just not often than the dippers
Fair enough. Like I said, I don’t know about their general political stances; I was mostly summarising what I thought I was reading other users say.
Are they not pro-secession? And might that not cause issues in a time when other parties are wanting to emphasise national unity?
1 short may as well be 2 short, because the house will elect a liberal speaker and reduce the vote number one more. But, whatever will happen is set in stone, waiting to be counted. I don’t know why I engage with this as if its a story unfolding, like I can influence it by watching.
because the house will elect a liberal speaker and reduce the vote number one more
Oh, is that not built-in to the 172 requirement? In Australia we always talk about a requirement of 76 seats to win an election, because 75 after the speaker is selected is able to have control of Parliament. I assumed the CBC and others were doing the same here.
edit: actually, just ran the numbers. 343 seats total, minus one for speaker, halved is 171. Assuming Canadian speakers follow Speaker Denison’s Rule, exactly half isn’t enough, so you need 172. So it looks like it is built in.
Good spot check, thanks
We’ve still got those advance polls keeping things in flux, though. A Liberal majority hasn’t even been ruled out.
Have there been estimates of how many advance polls there have been, as a percentage of estimated overall turnout?
As a percentage of turnout, not off the top of my head. It was 7.2 million advance voters in a nation of 41.7 million, though. So, a lot.
I’m going to bed pretty quick, but CBC just said that it’s about a 2,000 voter jump for the left when that advanced poll comes in, based on the ridings that are done. So, about 1.6% in a 125,000 person riding, or actually more because voting isn’t mandatory.
Why the assumption that BQ can’t be worked with?
Because every election people from outside Quebec talk about the BQ as if it was a right wing party that would rather work with the cons when all it does is vote based on Quebec’s interests. The BQ will keep the Liberals in power as long as the Liberals play ball and don’t try to centralize things that aren’t under federal jurisdiction.
That last bit might be what leads to the misunderstanding, the cons tend to respect the division of powers more than the Liberals, but I’m pretty sure that PP would have been different on that front anyway.
BQ as if it was a right wing party
Um… what?? BQ and NDP are our only viable left wing parties! If anything the BQ have historically pushed the nation’s politics leftward when they have leverage to do so. This is not the first time we have counted on them to look out for us all, and they have taken on that role graciously in the past.
I could be missing a variable in this equation but it feels kind of anti-Quebec (phrased as such not to use a more serious and loaded term) that people are overlooking the BQ as the balance of power.
And yet, every election where it’s a minority you see people mention that the BQ will certainly form an alliance with the cons… Which makes no sense whatsoever.
