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- uses the special ballot process
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CBC reporting that some people are finding that the elections Canada website is not working.
If you find the Election Canada Website is down for you try checking here
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/
Thank you, I’ve added that link to the top of the post
Maxime Bernier lost his seat. Yves- François Blanchet BQ has kept his seat but the BQ is poised to lose 12 seats.
What did the BQ do loose so much favor? As usual I am out of touch with Qc goings-on.
Independence is not a priority with the current geopolitical situation. Plus a lot of people want to make sure PP doesn’t get in.
Anti-Conservative sentiment in Quebec. The Bloc is never going to hold a majority, so strategically at this time the Liberals were the obvious choice to keep the Conservatives out of power. Among other things.
I am so glad we don’t have to worry about that here in Aus.
But I do find it kinda curious. This seems a little different from how things played out in the UK. Over there, the anti-conservative vote didn’t always go to Labour, but instead would tend to go to Labour or Liberal Democrat, depending on the seat. You’d expect if an incumbent is non-conservative, the strategic anti-conservative vote would be to re-elect the incumbent. That should play in BQ’s favour in terms of retaining their seats. And yet that apparently isn’t what happened.
That would be splitting the vote. If 30% vote Bloc, 25% Lib, and 31% vote Con, con wins even tho majority didnt vote for them. Seems a lot of Québecois opted to vote lib to avoid splitting the vote, to screw the Cons.
Right, but if you have a non-con incumbent, the thing Brits decided was the smart move is to strategically vote for the incumbent. So instead of BQ or NDP voters voting for Liberals, Liberal voters should vote for BQ or NDP, in seats where the incumbent was BQ or NDP, to use the tactic that was popular in Britain’s latest election. In the UK there were also some seats previously held by Conservatives where the public as a whole decided it was better to coalesce behind LibDems or someone else, rather than Labour, because of past voting patterns in that seat, even while in most seats strategically voting for Labour was the way.
I think they had a longer election campaign, which allowed for setting up campaigns to encourage this so even relatively low-information voters could work out what the best strategic option was for them. I dunno if that might be part of the reason it doesn’t seem to have happened in Canada, or if there are deeper ideological or cultural reasons behind it.
I’m lucky enough to live somewhere we don’t use FPTP, so I’m not best placed to say one way or the other is the right way to strategically vote. I’m just observing that it seems interesting that the two countries have, in these latest two elections, taken very different approaches. (I will say that this whole discussion is just all the more reason both countries should adopt a real democratic voting system. IRV at the least. A proportional system preferably.)
10:41 p.m. EDT: Blanchet holds seat as party suffers losses
Blanchet caused some upset days before the election calling Canada an “artificially country with very little meaning,” then doubled down in the face of denunciation by his political rivals.
The Bloc lost ground to Mark Carney’s Liberals early in the election campaign – as many voters rallied around the incumbent government in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threat – and Blanchet struggled to win back that support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
he ran scared of the media
He grew up at the knee of Harper. He’s only doing what he was taught.
Interactive live results pages are clearly losing this election.
Looks like everything is in and it ended up with Liberals 169 seats, three short of a majority.
Although jeez, I can’t imagine there isn’t a recount in the riding where the difference was literally 12 votes out of 21,000. Crazy close.
Either way, I’m guessing the 7 NDP and 1 Green basically become de facto Liberals to create a pseudo majority since at least that way they’ll have some influence and it wouldn’t be in their best interest to topple the government and go through all this again.
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.
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
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.]
If you don’t know who to vote for, I recommend using vote compass to see how closely you align to the parties.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
Isn’t the right trying to tell people what race and genders are valid…
Yes. I feel like polls such as Vote Compass are hampered by the fact that they take right wing policies at face value rather than what they actually do once in power.
Very much agreed
I got the same result for the same reason.
I think the parties not releasing their platform until so late makes it incorrect.
It’s a good idea, but not good this election.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
They’ve introduced a feature at the end where you can choose to weight your answers, so the social issues you don’t really care about can be weighted
0and get a more accurate result.Ain’t got time for that. I did a few questions and it did change the result dramatically.
There’s a “weight your results” button that let’s you indicate how much you care about each question.
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.
“That’s not an applause line.” lol
The numbers for Fanjoy have been holding above 2300 for over an hour, as writing this, 219 of 266 polls.
Complete interprovincial trade by July?
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!
This is not looking good so far. 🥲
It looks fine
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It’s close, but remember the Conservatives would probably have to win an absolute majority, because nobody else wants to work with them.
If the east coast is representative, they get the most seats but fall short of that.
After this is all done, we need to rebuild the left in this country. We need the NDP to be putting forth bold policy proposals to neutralize the far right populist appeal of the fucking conservative ghouls.
They need to replace Singh from the leadership … I have a lot of respect for him and I do appreciate him but you have to be realistic, the majority of the country is still very conservative Eurocentric minded population. The majority of the country do not identify with a politician with a turban. I have no problem with it but there are still many, many people out there that will never support someone like this. Singh also brings in the controversy and troubles of the Sikh / Indian controversies.
I hate to say it and hate to admit it but the only way that the NDP can grow is for the leadership to be replaced by someone who is white but at the very least someone who does not identify with a specific ethnic / religious group by wearing a piece of clothing to identify themselves.
Singh wasn’t going to be able to overcome the polarization that Trump created. IN any normal election, he’s fine. But nobody wanted to chance a Polievre administration maple magaing our way through the next 3.7 years.
The majority of the country do not identify with a politician with a turban.
The majority of the country identify with a very narrow profile, and it excludes many marginalized groups that we both know need no more exclusion. So I am super-conflicted with the reasoning being “he’s not like most Canadians” being a reason to replace him, but I see where it absolutely will/has affected his image with the more rural regions.
We had a period of turmoil during Justin’s last run that had Mr Singh appearing narrowly-focused on a particular segment of the population, and it was hard not to believe that it was to the detriment of the rest of the country. I worry he will appear to put one group before the rest, and we really need to believe all groups are on an equal footing before he can hope for support from the Rurals.
No, just no. Singh is as Canadian as the rest of us, period. And for any racialized Canadians reading this, that goes for you too as far as I and millions of other Canadians are concerned. We don’t need to court the votes of racists and we should never feel like we ought to appease them; they either get educated or they spend the rest of their lives voting for regressives. The leadership of our diverse country ought to be reflected in our leaders and the days of trying to middle ground with regressives ought to be put firmly behind us.
I’m Indigenous Canadian and I’m a big brown long haired native guy … you can’t get any more obviously racialized a person as me.
I’m also a lifelong NDP supporter … I’ve been part of the party since I started actively voting just over 30 years ago and I even joined in election campaigns for the party in my region over the years.
And from those experiences … we can’t fool ourselves of what the dynamics of the country still are. You are right we should think the way you describe … that is what we should aspire to … but the reality is that that kind of mentality will only occur in decades or centuries, it won’t change any time soon or within our lifetime. I would love for it change sooner rather than later but that isn’t realistic.
One of the troubling things I noticed in the NDP was in union and worker supporters … as a group most workers and unions will support a party like the NDP … but as individuals they are more than likely to vote for conservative. They support socialist ideals as workers and conservative beliefs at home.
Which is why I honestly believe that at this point in history, we need a plain old older white male to lead the party … if Jack Layton had survived, we would have probably had him as Prime Minister at this point … it’s so sad that he left us before he had a chance to do anything.
I know you weren’t saying you think like that. I’m just disagreeing with you about tactics.
We also need a better NDP leader. I like Jagmeet but he has not succeeded at this.
We also need a better NDP leader. I like Jagmeet but he has not succeeded at this.
He’s in third place in his riding and it’s looking like he’ll lose his seat.
Jusg saying, same goes for PP in his riding in Ontario. He can suck a lemon.
Maxime Bernier lost his riding as well. That’s 3 federal party leaders who lost their seats.
It’s gotta be a record.
Charlie Angus should have stayed and taken over NDP leadership.
He was a candidate to head the party at one time, but they decided on Singh instead. Now he’s too tired to try again. But I do wonder about the parallel universe where things turned out the other way around.
Charlie is Canada’s version of Bernie Sanders, ie: he’d never be allowed to lead the party.
Such is the way of politiks these days.
we need to rebuild the left
Well, memberships are cheap and it’s easy to get involved at the riding level where you can vote for the local leadership at the AGM, help make policy at conventions, vote for the leader,… Membership has its privileges.
And to engage peoples hard, negative feelings. The conservatives keep capturing the NDP’s natural base because they refuse to actually reflect their feelings and perceptions back to them. This whole “let’s get along, and cancel your bank fees” thing doesn’t resonate.
We need European style left populism, like Mélenchon in France, or Corbyn in the UK. The mainstream media are going to call us hippie socialists no matter how “costed” and “responsible” our platform is. We need to be going for the jugular.
Very much so.
That and we need electoral reform. The NDP bled hard into liberal support as people wanted to avoid electing conservatives. FPTP will never lead to an NDP government.
I’m more centrist but I also want a strong left.
I want good working class Canadians to rally back to a strong NDP and unions and see their influence grow, and I want that to start pushing our policies back towards effective social policy.
It does need to be a balance, but I don’t see how for example small businesses not having to provide health insurance to compete is bad for businesses. It’s a burden off of them and good for employees.
Private healthcare mostly helps the big entrenched companies, and that’s bad for an economy.
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.
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.
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.
