Newfoundland election, Nov 2015

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So this is the next Canadian election, although it will probably end up looking like your average North Korean election unless something goes weird.

So to recaP, following the highly popular rule of Danny "the Harper-hating Tory" Williams, fellow Tory Kathy Dunderdale was duly elected to succeed him. Following a series of mishaps, poor economic figures, budget bloating, struggles with fishing legislation and an attempt to weaken the Freedom of Info law her approval figures were left subterranean and she resigned. A leadership race was held with three candidates, the first of which was kicked out for racist Twitter messages, the second left because "his heart wasn't in it" (and apparently nobody liked him) and the apparent leader by default Frank Coleman never bothered to take up his post, citing a family situation.

So ... nobody won? Which was a very silly situation. A new race was called, which Paul Davis (eventually, after the first ballot showed a tie) won. He immediately served with distinction, putting an unelected lawyer in cabinet who started a strange reform of the emergency services that nobody understood; had a month long semantics-based argument with the state bar on his proposal to rename the Dept of Justice and had to otherwise weather the brutal conditions many oil-producing regions are enduring at present.

So what about the NDP? They got a record 5 seats in 2011, what will happen there? Well turns out the new four MP's had a falling out with leader Lorraine Michael sending her a letter urging her to call a leadership race. She was offended, causing two members to backtrack, but two others to resign their whips and join the Liberals. Then she was endorsed in a leadership review, but resigned anyway after poor by-election results, which were won by trade unionist Earl McCUrdy.

Oh yeah, by elections. There's been a few. A typical example of the swings involved is Conception Bay South:

Liberal (+42)
Tory (-21)
NDP (-21)

Trinity Bay Verde?

Liberal (+42)
Tory (-33)
NDP (-9)

Or good old Humber East (the seat of the interim PC leader and long term-cabinet minister)?

Liberal (+48)
Etc.

Anyway, last election the numbers were:

Tory 37
Liberal 6
NDP 5

Although they now look like this:

Tory 28
Liberal 18
NDP 3

(there are no Greens btw, as they tore themselves to shreds a while back over the seal hunt)

So yes. then the province was swept up by Biebermania, and no doubt this election will have the effect of a happy honeymoon for the Liberals led by Dwight Ball. I personally will be on tenterhooks at what will no doubt be a compelling and very suspenseful election.

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Lmao Krago.

I wonder if any defeated MP's (like Jack Harris) could be emergency drafted in to rescue the chance of an opposition existing.

The number of seats has been reduced to forty. The NDP has nominated 9 candidates so far.

Yes, a poor decision by the Pc's seizing as it makes them even less likely to have a presence in the legislature.

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Atlantic Canada: the place where the ideologies are made-up and the parties don't matter.

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Just wondering, but what is the highest percentage a single political party has got in a Canada provincial election?