Election Information

I recommend that you check the links yourself! I’ve copied some of the information below:

Ways to vote

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Vote on election day (April 28)

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Special Ballots

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Data on your district:

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      Incumbent government gets first chance to form government, so they can form a coalition with bloc. It doesn’t actually matter at this point as long as that coalition can be formed. Which it will. Bloc has said they won’t form a government with the cons

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        11 minutes ago

        Yeah, just seems a little too close for comfort.

        Anyway, PP’s trailing by over 1K votes right now!! 😂😂😂

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    Hopefully we get a minority liberal government tonight. Mark Carney needs to taught to collaborate with others. I want him to be much more mature than Justin Trudeau ever was.

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      My only problem with this plan is it seems they’d need both NDP and BQ. If they only needed NDP, should be business as ususal. If they need BQ… could be hairier.

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        There’s also a chance the Greens could be a kingmaker here if that’s preferable to a potential bloc rugpull.

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    Are the early polling votes from last week not counted already? Because they’ve called the election for liberals already but the total vote count is less than the 7.6 million that voted early…?

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        Yup. At least one riding started counting the early votes 6 hours before the polls closed. Usually it’s about an hour before.

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      Are the early polling votes from last week not counted already

      In one province they were allowed to start counting those 6 hours before polls closed. In all others, they could start 2 hours before, but it is optional and up to each riding’s returning officer. So some ridings have it, some don’t. CBC made it sound like they don’t even know which ones have and which have not.

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    Maxime Bernier lost his seat. Yves- François Blanchet BQ has kept his seat but the BQ is poised to lose 12 seats.

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        Anti-Conservative sentiment in Quebec. The Bloc is never going to hold a majority, so strategically at this time the Liberals were the obvious choice to keep the Conservatives out of power. Among other things.

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          I am so glad we don’t have to worry about that here in Aus.

          But I do find it kinda curious. This seems a little different from how things played out in the UK. Over there, the anti-conservative vote didn’t always go to Labour, but instead would tend to go to Labour or Liberal Democrat, depending on the seat. You’d expect if an incumbent is non-conservative, the strategic anti-conservative vote would be to re-elect the incumbent. That should play in BQ’s favour in terms of retaining their seats. And yet that apparently isn’t what happened.

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        Independence is not a priority with the current geopolitical situation. Plus a lot of people want to make sure PP doesn’t get in.

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        10:41 p.m. EDT: Blanchet holds seat as party suffers losses

        Blanchet caused some upset days before the election calling Canada an “artificially country with very little meaning,” then doubled down in the face of denunciation by his political rivals.

        The Bloc lost ground to Mark Carney’s Liberals early in the election campaign – as many voters rallied around the incumbent government in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threat – and Blanchet struggled to win back that support.

        https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/ctv-news-declares-liberal-minority-live-updates-here/

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    This liberal guy on CBC is super fucking annoying. He doesn’t need to be campaigning on the results show. JFC

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        I saw it momentarily on the map but it disappeared. FWIW Mike Morrice in Kitchener Centre has a very good shot at keeping his seat. Very few polls reporting there at this time

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          I was hoping it was him.

          I used to work in his riding and it was reassuring seeing all the green election signs outside of houses. Knowing that people were realizing they are not stuck voting for the same two parties over and over.

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    Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.

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      Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,

      Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.

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    Can’t believe the CBC Live news coverage … just a moment ago, they asked Conservative Jason Kenny what his thoughts were on resource development in regards to First Nations

    What the hell do you think he’s going to say

    It’s like asking a Irishman what his thoughts are of potatoes

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    Well, I did it. I feel dirty, but I voted liberal. Not that it matters here. First time ever voting liberal, but the cons platform is just so damn terrible. And my usual ndp vote for the past couple times doesn’t even have a hope.

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      It’s close, but remember the Conservatives would probably have to win an absolute majority, because nobody else wants to work with them.

      If the east coast is representative, they probably get the most votes but fall short of that.

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        Oh yeah, to be clear if the libs win delay is absolutely the key word here. They won’t do shit to fight fascism so it’s up to the few that give a fuck to do it.

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          I suspect a lot of pivotal things will happen in the next 4 years. The fascists are at the point where they actually have to put things into practice, and that’s what brought them down the last time around. This election is just the first example.

          So, maybe it’s not just a delay? Fingers crossed.

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            If it’s a minority government, the conservatives are going to be the opposition and they’re going to block everything.

            They might still have to make a coalition with the NDP but most importantly, the Bloc québécois.

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              I really expect the NDP will be up for it. The Bloc might be dicier. ATM they still haven’t called a minority so I have a feeling the NDP will suffice.

              Hoping for some kind of Conservative participation is a pipe dream, though, you’re right about that. I haven’t even heard it discussed.