PEI Election 2007

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Forgive me if there's already a thread. The election is on May 28, so it's coming right up. Advance polls already started on Saturday.

The Progressive Conservatives have governed Prince Edward Island since 1996 but look to possibly lose out to the Liberals this time around. The most recent poll shows the Liberals leading 49-42.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/peivotes2007/story/2007/05/22/ghiz-poll.html

PEI elections are usually rather boring as the PCs and Liberals really aren't that different there and the NDP and Greens are nonentities. The NDP are only running 15/27 candidates and the Greens only 18/27. The Tory government has been rather inoffensive, but they've been in a while and so will probably lose.

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Election is today. Very high turnout was reported in advance polls; 15% voted before election day. Turnout is expected to be somewhere around 85%.

There have been no polls other than the one showing the Liberals leading, so it has yet to be seen if the Liberals really do have the advantage.

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Election is today. Very high turnout was reported in advance polls; 15% voted before election day. Turnout is expected to be somewhere around 85%.

There have been no polls other than the one showing the Liberals leading, so it has yet to be seen if the Liberals really do have the advantage.

Turnout is usually high on the island. I havent checked what time the polls close; I sure hope it's not 9pm ADT. There's something far more important to watch at that time

CBC says that 15% advance voting was apparently a record for PEI, so turnout may be even higher than usual.

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I just hope they get more votes than the Green Party which may be difficult.

I think they will. Sharon Labchuk's whole policy platform is about organic foods and yogic healing. I mean, I eat mostly organic and I like yoga, but that's not a serious party platform.


I'm glad polls close early, too.

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Sleeping because I've been sick today and I miss all of the results. Oh well. Only Vernon River-Stratford left to go. The Tories are reduced to their strongholds in eastern PEI.

And apparently organic foods sell better than social democracy on the Island.

Not really a landslide in the popular vote, but the Liberal vote was very efficient.

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I wonder if Cardigan will ever go Conservative federally. Maybe if Lawrence McCaulley steps down, they'll have a shot. That area is clearly a bastion for Conservativism in provincial politics.

It went Tory in 1984, if that helps (only Charlottetown didn't, IIRC).

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Those are some low population ridings. Probably a lot of the MPs have rang every doorbell in their district.

I sincerely wish we had such small seats here in the US. New Hampshire is really far ahead of the game.