Canadian by-elections, 2016 (next event: Quebec provincial byelections [Dec 5])

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Final Results:



Coe, Lorne PC Party of Ontario 17,053 52.92 % 8,188
Roy, Elizabeth Ontario Liberal Party  8,865 27.51 % 
Lundquist, Niki Ontario NDP/NPD 5,172 16.05 % 
Leadbetter, Stacey Green Party of Ontario 529 1.64 % 
Vezina, Greg None of the Above Party (NOTA) 261 0.81 % 
Znoneofthe, Above INDEPENDENT 140 0.43 % 
McEwan, Adam Libertarian 109 0.34 % 
Cuthbert, Garry The People 52 0.16 % 
Thom, Douglas Freedom Party of Ontario 34 0.11 % 
Turmel, John Paupers 11 0.03 %


One of candidates changed his name to Above, Znoneofthe (so he could be the last name on the ballot, as Znoneofthe Above), and one candidate is from the None of the Above Party.
and once again John Turmel lost another election. That's number 88.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Turmel

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Former Toronto Mayor and current city councilor, Rob Ford lost his battle with cancer.

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What difference does it make whether those school board byelections are on the same day or not? They are in two totally different parts of the city, there are no cost savings i can think of...

- You can share advertising costs. One ad with information on both by-elections, instead of two separate ads.

While at the subject,
You might need to change the title since Winnipeg has 3 separate school board by-elections for Saturday June 11/2016.   
If you are wondering, Winnipeg has 6+ separate school divisions.

Two of vacancies  were the results of the recent provincial election, and one was the result of a trustee being fired after moving to another school division.

- Louis Riel  - Ward 2 (Colleen Mayer, won the the St Vital seat for the PCs)
- St James James - Assiniboia - King Edward Deer Loge Ward (Scott Johnston, won the St James for the PCs)
- River-East Transcona - Ward 3 (Wayne Ritcher fired for moving to another school division)

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Winnipeg started with 9 school divisions.

Not sure why Winnipeg has so many school division.
The only reason I think of was  The city of Winnipeg was amalgamated with the surrounding municipalities (ie. Fort Garry, North Kildonan, etc) in 1972, and the former municipalities kept their existing school districts. About 10 years ago the Manitoba Government did reduce the number of the school districts within the province, and Winnipeg went down from 9 to 6.

Turnout at school by-elections are very low. The last school board by-election paired without a city-council election had only 6%.

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Some sad news Liberal MP (Ottawa - Vanier) Mauril Belanger passed away tonight after being diagnosed with ALS.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberal-mp-mauril-b%C3%A9langer-dies-at-61-1.3031730

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Two areas in Manitoba. Overlapping areas  Federally and Provincally.

Brandon Souris (Federal) was vacant - August 31/13 to Nov 25/13 - Merv Tweed resigned to take a position with OmiTrax
Arthur - Virden (Provincial) was vacant - Oct 18/13 to Jan 28/14 -  Larry Maguire resigned to run Federally in Brandon Souris.

The overlapping areas (SW Manitoba) was without representation just over 1 month.


Morris (Provincial) - vacant - Feb 12/13 to Jan 28/14 - Mavis Tailleu resigned her seat citing family and health reasons.
Provencher (Federal)- vacant July 9/13 to Nov 25/13 - Vic Toews resigned from politics.

For 4 1/2 months the overlapping areas (Morris, Niverville) was without representation.

You can say that during a Federal Election (or Provincial) there is no real representation. So if a Provincial Riding (or Federal) is vacant a riding (or area) is both vacant federally and provincially.

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John Turmel losing strikes continues. Now has lost 88 straight elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Turmel

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PCs are up by 1,096 (38.7%, Lib 30.1%) 104/234 Polls

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and so has CBC

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Final Results:

Cho, Raymond PC Party of Ontario 9,693 38.58 %
Thiru, Piragal Ontario Liberal Party  7,264 28.91 % 
Shan, Neethan Ontario NDP/NPD 6,883 27.40 % 
Yu, Queenie INDEPENDENT 582 2.32 % 
De Silva, Priyan Green Party of Ontario 217 0.86 % 
Small, Allen Libertarian 146 0.58 % 
Znoneofthe, Above None of the Above Party 135 0.54 % 
Simmons, Wayne Freedom Party of Ontario 76 0.30 % 
McLean, Dwight The People 56 0.22 % 
Turmel, John Paupers 37 0.15 % 
Krosinska, Ania Trillium Party TPO 36 0.14 % 
 
Percentage of polls reporting: 100.00 % 
Voter turnout: 28.14 % 
Registered Electors on List: 89,279 
Results Last Updated Date: 09/01/16 
Results Last Updated Time: 11:25 pm

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After 3 Polls

Conservative - 92.3%

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Conservative support After
20 Polls: 73.3%
25 Polls 70.8%
30 - 70.3%
35 - 69.2%
40 - 69.3%
45 - 68.4%
50 - 68.0%
55 - 69.0%

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The CHP party candidate beat the NDP is the MacLeod by-election in 2014 by 4 votes.

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The CHP party candidate beat the NDP is the MacLeod by-election in 2014 by 4 votes.

Was that a Federal by-election?

Yep
http://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rep/off/ovr_2014&document=p2&lang=e

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CBC projects that the Conservatives won.

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If anybody really cares.

School Board By-Election was held in Winnipeg Last Saturday.
Results:
Arlene REID  252 
Alon WEINBERG 250
Jane PAGUIO 173
Marty GREEN 25
Total Votes = 701 out of 13,724 (Turnout 5.11%)
Cost of By-election around $100,000. Around $7 voters (If all voters voted)
Cost of each actual vote: $142.

2nd Place candidate thinks since he lost by 2 votes, that the winner should share the seat with him. He suggested that he would share the seat had he won by 2 votes.