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The Canada election vote
See body of thread | October 20, 2015

Posted on 10/20/2015 5:12:31 PM PDT by EveningStar

The elections for the House of Commons of Canada took place yesterday. The Conservative Party of Canada fell from a 54% majority in 2011 to a 29% minority in 2015. The four liberal parties outnumber them at 71%.

Here are the breakdowns:

Party 2011 2011 pct  2015 2015 pct
Conservative  166 53.9% 99 29.3%
Liberal 34 11.0% 184 54.4%
New Democratic 103 33.4% 44 13.0%
Bloc Québécois 4 1.3% 10 3.0%
Green 1 0.3% 1 0.3%
Totals 308 100.0% 338 100.0%

Combined Left 142 46.1% 239 70.7%
Conservative 166 53.9% 99 29.3%

Source, with graphs and analysis


TOPICS: Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; election; houseofcommons
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1 posted on 10/20/2015 5:12:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Squawk 8888

ping


2 posted on 10/20/2015 5:13:01 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

The four liberal parties? Only someone who believes Republicans are conservative would believe the Canadian Conservative party is conservative.


3 posted on 10/20/2015 5:18:18 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: deadrock

For Canada, the Canadian Conservative party is conservative. :)


4 posted on 10/20/2015 5:20:37 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Why did the conservatives lose so badly?


5 posted on 10/20/2015 5:24:02 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: deadrock
Only someone who believes Republicans are conservative would believe the Canadian Conservative party is conservative.

One h*ll of a lot more conservative than the Republican establishment Party, or what you call the "GOPE".

6 posted on 10/20/2015 5:26:33 PM PDT by Dartman (Canada 10/19/15 Santa Claus won.)
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To: Signalman; Squawk 8888

Election patterns are cyclical, but our friends from the North are better able to answer this question than I am. :)


7 posted on 10/20/2015 5:28:37 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Signalman
Why did the conservatives lose so badly?

Because LIVs wanted "change". Sound familiar?

8 posted on 10/20/2015 5:29:50 PM PDT by Dartman (Canada 10/19/15 Santa Claus won.)
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To: Signalman

people were pissed at Harper, or so i was told...

i was at the Indianapolis 500 this year with a tour group which including a couple from Calgary...one morning over breakfast we started talking about politics- this couple were real conservatives and told me Calgary- the Canadian equivalent of Texas, had elected a straight out socialist a few months earlier and they were both pissed and concerned...

i’m not sure if it was an election for just Calgary or the entire province but the writing was on the wall..


9 posted on 10/20/2015 5:33:26 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Signalman
Why did the conservatives lose so badly?

Because LIVs wanted "change". Sound familiar?

10 posted on 10/20/2015 5:35:02 PM PDT by Dartman (Canada 10/19/15 Santa Claus won.)
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To: Signalman

- the evil media joined the libs in creating Harper Derangement Syndrome

- they used the same play book as B. Hussein - change, shovel ready jobs, spend, spend, spend and expand government jobs and debt

- bring in loads of revenue by legalizing the sale of pot and taxing it (so, basically the government getting rich by selling drugs)

- many more younger voters, raised in a socialist school system and listening to socialist media, Hollywood, music industry, etc.

Now we wait for Trudeau to mount his unicorn and ride into power sprinkling fairy dust all around, fixing all of the problems, and singing kumbaya. At least Obama is no longer the biggest buffoon on the world stage. Putin is laughing and Iran is plotting.

Do I sound ticked? lol


11 posted on 10/20/2015 5:38:07 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: EveningStar

Some can be attributed to the all too common habit of discontent that humans have. There are things that people hate changed, like their soft drinks. But in politics all too often people want change just because they like change. It is the nature of the beast. In order to sell a candidate the case must be made that things are not good now.

It is the same principle that often happens with parenting. A permissive parent will raise kids who become strict parents and vice versa. Sometimes it is just the arrogance of thinking “I can do better...”

The bigger government becomes the more this principle will apply. A small limited government is not as affected by it except when the people start realizing they can elect robbers who will take from their neighbors and give to themselves, and poof, big government.


12 posted on 10/20/2015 5:48:02 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: JudyinCanada

My friend back home was saying “We need leadership, we’ve had no leadership.” Harper’s handling of the economy during the global recession puts lie to that, obviously that was a media narrative that she picked up on. Lots of charges that Harper was acting “too American” as well.


13 posted on 10/20/2015 5:50:14 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

He was certainly more American than Obama! Maybe that’s why I like him lol.


14 posted on 10/20/2015 5:52:12 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Dartman; JudyinCanada

Many years ago I joined Free Dominion. I posted a thread about being happy that there were conservatives in Canada.

One of the posters replied, “We also have electricity and indoor plumbing.”

LOL! :)


15 posted on 10/20/2015 5:58:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
"Many years ago I joined Free Dominion. I posted a thread about being happy that there were conservatives in Canada.

One of the posters replied, “We also have electricity and indoor plumbing.”

Don't let the Libs and the NDP know that or they might take it away from them.

16 posted on 10/20/2015 6:14:20 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Don't let the Libs and the NDP know that or they might take it away from them.

And, as you know, they did take it away from them. :(

17 posted on 10/20/2015 6:24:59 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Yup.


18 posted on 10/20/2015 6:35:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: EveningStar

I had heard that this election was going to be close.


19 posted on 10/20/2015 6:36:36 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: EveningStar

I suppose envious Canucks looked at how the US has fared the last 7 years under the 0bomb and said: I want some of that!


20 posted on 10/20/2015 7:09:17 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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