NDP needs to drop Singh. Conservatives need to drop PP.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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I may as well get to bed, but I wish I would know before if the NDP will have enough seats to prop up an LPC minority. I'd hate to see the LPC+NDP be one or two seats short, leaving the CPC/BQ with enough votes to stymie everything. Right now it's sitting at 170 combined, need 172 or more to make it work.
LPC+NDP could be 171 and be ok on current numbers, with the 1 GRN projected reaching a majority without needing BQ. Still...they're 1 short of that.
We've still got those advance polls keeping things in flux, though. A Liberal majority hasn't even been ruled out.
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Canadians, what's the deal with "official party status"? I gather from the CBC that you need 12 seats to achieve it, but what does it actually do, what's the reasoning behind it, and do people generally like this system?
For context, here in Australia party status is decided pre-election, and only requires you have 1500 active members, or at least 1 incumbent. To my knowledge the only thing it gives you here is more flexibility with respect to campaign financing.
It's time allotment in the HoC and money for staff, research, etc. Not much more.
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This Liberal woman CBC has just finished talking to both looks and speaks an awful lot like Leslie Knope from Parks & Rec.
(This is not a bad thing.)
Binge watching Parks and Rec currently hehe
How can CBC declare Liberal government when it's this currently?
A snapshot of the summary isn't the full picture.
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
Oh OK, that makes more sense now. Thanks!
It could be a minority and they’re ahead.
Yeah, just seems a little too close for comfort.
Anyway, PP's trailing by over 1K votes right now!! 😂😂😂
Yes, I'm watching that too. Probably, it's the advanced polls like they're saying, but wouldn't it be something if it was the long, confusing ballot?
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.
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.
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...?
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.
CBC said it's riding by riding the order they count the ballots.
Yup. At least one riding started counting the early votes 6 hours before the polls closed. Usually it's about an hour before.
I think that was Carleton because they have 91 candidates on the ballot, so they had to get a special dispensation to start early.
EDIT fixed autocorrect
Maxime Bernier lost his seat. Yves- François Blanchet BQ has kept his seat but the BQ is poised to lose 12 seats.
What did the BQ do loose so much favor? As usual I am out of touch with Qc goings-on.
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.
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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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.
Independence is not a priority with the current geopolitical situation. Plus a lot of people want to make sure PP doesn't get in.
Interactive live results pages are clearly losing this election.
Lmao PP’s on his way to lose his own riding
Watching the CBC feed on YouTube. It says only 10 of 266 polls reported, but Fanjoy (what an apt name) is ahead by over 50%. That's pretty incredible.
Also wtf? 91 candidates? In a country with FPTP‽
It’s a joke/protest setup by the Longest Ballot Committee ironically in opposition to FPTP and definitely isn’t the norm haha
Oh that's brilliant! I love it!
Imagine if he came in 91st. It'd be a heritage moment up there with balcony guy
Hahahaha that’d be incredible
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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
Yeah way too eager, super annoying. The woman beside him is visibly annoyed with him it's pretty entertaining
Yeah the blatant campaigning is unnecessary and leaves a bad taste in my mouth
Please don't put your phone in your mouth, even during election night.