Hooray for Democracy!

[pyat]

Well, that was probably the least interesting and most pointless federal election I've ever voted in. The Conservatives have a slightly larger minority government. Voter turnout was an all time low of just under 60%, meaning the Conservatives were handed the reins of government with just 26% of the population voting in their favour.

The Green Party received 6.8% of votes cast, up from the sub-1% abyss of a few years back, suggesting a growing awareness that the party is not entirely made up of extreme hippy-dippy folks. This is good.

Locally, the NDP incumbent was re-elected with a solid lead over the other candidates.

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[relee.livejournal.com]

Pat Davidson, the blue team candidate, was re-elected. I wonder if she's a good politician or an evil politician... She certainly got a lot of votes. As many as the Liberals and NDP combined. On the up side, the Green Party got way more votes than the Christian Heritage Party. YAY FOR RELEVANT!

And for a party with no seats, they sure got a hell of a lot of vote, didn't they? I was surprised, it turns out that our local Green Party candidate is the one responsible for all the gay weddings we keep having. He was the first one to minister a gay wedding in Sarnia, and continues to do all sorts of unorthodox marriages. I wonder if that hurt him in the polls? That and his crazy eyes, like staring into the arctic tundra...

WTG on the NDP! Our NDP was tied with our Liberals, only like five votes between them. I was really having a hard time deciding if I should vote for the NDP or the Green Party this year. I noticed, though, that lots of ridings the two of them had more votes than the winner. It's too bad they can't combine into the Super Robot Pumpkin Party and fight for the right of the working man to build wind turbines, or something...

I suppose the problem is that nobody is bad enough that "We have to get them out!" and nobody is good enough that "We have to get them in!" and there's nothing really exciting going on. I'm disappointed, but not mortified. The conservatives aren't THAT bad, they're just not me.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

(...) combine into the Super Robot Pumpkin Party and fight for the right of the working man to build wind turbines, or something...

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[relee.livejournal.com]

Well, you can friend my LiveJournal, that's close right?