What party would you vote for in Canada?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

NDP; they run some real kooks in a lot of unwinnable urban ridings (something that they have really got to stopt doing; it damages the party's image. Better not to run a candidate at all than run a lunatic) and I wouldn't vote for that sort of candidate... but then again I wouldn't live in that sort of riding.
But on the other hand, the Social Gospel types out on the Prairies are great

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Although there is a small chance I might vote Conservative.

Is that if Ottawa South is very close and the oppertunity to claim bragging rights for beating a McGuinty is too good to miss?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And no, I haven't voted yet in the poll becuase none of them fits me that well.

See? A party system that fits you even worse than the U.S!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

WMS, you'd probably vote Liberal

Nah, you should see what he thinks about Tammany Hall types

He'd most likely be stuck with being a swing voter from hell. Again

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Brings back a lot of memories

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, a Conservative-NDP swing voter ... then again, these aren't as uncommon as you might think in Canada ...

You've just described the largest part of the Saskatchewan electorate

I've worked out what his nightmare riding would be, btw. Vancouver Centre. Hedy Fry (who must come close to being his nightmare Liberal) against Svend Robinson (and whether he's heard of him or not, he is his nightmare Dipper).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

NOT the BQ.

I. Am. Shocked.

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Winnipeg and Regina are urban Although in this context "urban" seems to mean Toronto, Vancouver et al rather than a blue collar city like Winnipeg...
The NDP in the Prairie provinces have always been more moderate than the federal party (and much more electorally sucessful, at provincial level anyway) and there's always been a strong religious element; Tommy Douglas himself was a Baptist minister.
One interesting feature of the NDP in Saskatchewan (not so much in Manitoba) is a marked fiscally conservative streak; the main reason why the federal NDP did badly there last election was the fact that the provincial government jacked up taxes to fill in a budget deficit (please compare with the approach of the B.C NDP to fiscal matters...)

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Minor party formed by ex-PC activists upset at the "merger" of the CA and PC parties.

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Do you like wheat?
Or absurdly volatile electorates?

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It's not as though you seek out Yuppy-cum-Inner City areas anyway is it?

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Yes, but it would be easier to just have a look at this site: http://www.electionprediction.org/2005_fed/index.html and read some of the entries. A lot of partisan rubbish, o/c, but some very informative postings as well.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You mean Bingogate? Or the mess over the Skeena pulp mill? Or the mess over the Ferries? Or... [etc etc repeat ad nasuem...]

IIRC they ran the provinces finances into the ground as well. Not the worst government B.C has ever had. The SoCreds were even worse...