Canadian Election Results

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And now for the bad news. The CPC has swept Saskatchewan as a result of the Child Porn slur. Proctor and Nystrom lost by a handful of votes each.
They go down as heros.

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Jean Crowder's won Nanaimo-Cowichan!!! The Dippers are back on the Island!!

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Nathen Cullen has taken Skeena-Bulkley Valley! Yeeesssssss!!!!!!!!!

There's a really, really tight race in Vancouver Island North: incumbent CPC MP John Duncan (who had been expected to walk re-election) is leading by just 26 votes with 4 polls to come in.

And in New Westminster-Coquitlam where a Dipper challenger leads the CPC incumbent by 75 votes with a few polls left to close

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As a general point I still think that the Dippers should have picked Blaikie as leader.

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Duncan's won. The CPC lead in the other undecided seat.

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LIB 135 0 135 36.71%  
CON 99 0 99 29.61%  
BQ 54 0 54 12.41%  
NDP 19 0 19 15.68%  
NA 1 0 1 .13%  
OTH 0 0 0 5.46%  

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Ed's baaaaaaaaack!

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The following cabinet ministers lost their seats:

Stan Keyes
Hélène Chalifour Scherrer
Gar Knutson
David Pratt
Rey D. Pagtakhan
Bob Speller

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Great cartoon

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Did Belinda Stronach win?

Yes. By 702 votes. In a race she was expected by the media to walk.

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Yes. By 702 votes. In a race she was expected by the media to walk.

Even odds she's the conservative leader in the next federal election?

Depends when it's called... if Martin calls another one soon and wins a majority it'll be bye-bye Harper.

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Is Paul Martin the new Prime Minister?  By the way what does MP stand for?

Martin was PM before the election. He's just been re-elected. M.P stands for Member of Parliament.

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Interesting trend for you all to ponder: the Dippers did well out in the boondacks... even in ridings they were not targeting.
Take a look at these examples:

In Madawaska-Restigouche, NB the NDP came second with 27.5% of the vote

In Prince George-Peace River, BC they came second with 20% of the vote

These are the sort of ridings that it was assumed that "Jack wouldn't play well" and neither were targeted at all.

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NDP/Liberal= 153 ( 154-1 seat for the Speaker)
Bloc/Conservative Opposistion 154 (153+1 Right of Center Independent)

The BQ and the CPC are unlikely to co-operate in Opposition. It's not in either parties interest to do so.

It's odd to see that the leader under the most pressure now is Harper... who'd of though that 2 weeks ago?

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NDP/Liberal= 153 ( 154-1 seat for the Speaker)
Bloc/Conservative Opposistion 154 (153+1 Right of Center Independent)

The BQ and the CPC are unlikely to co-operate in Opposition. It's not in either parties interest to do so.

It's odd to see that the leader under the most pressure now is Harper... who'd of though that 2 weeks ago?

But it is in their combined interest to give the government all the headaches they can.

If the liberals try throwing a bill at the commons that deals with provincial powers or some budget that throws too much money Ontario's way...and they could be in for some trouble.

Yes and no. The last thing that Duceppe wants is to be linked with the CPC

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If the Liberals appoint a Tory as Speaker, then the Liberal-NDPs will hold a majority of the seats in Parliament.

Or a BQ MP