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Nova Scotia Election Results
June 9, 2009 - 5:42pm
Polls close at 7:00 AST. [6:00 EST / 3:00 PST]
If I remember correctly results start trickling in after half an hour.
[My memory of which elections that is true are rather dim, if someone else in NS wants to correct me.]
It the actual results are anything like the polling numbers, things will start being called pretty quickly. Ditto for when/if a NDP government, at least a minority, is called.
People could post where you can get the quickest live results on the web.
Well the polls have just closed and no results are in yet, but CTV has just projected that they are 81% certain the NDP will win a majority government.
6 Lib, 5 NDP, 4 Cons -- but just about 1 poll reporting in each.
NDP - 13 (+1) - 45%
Lib - 6 (+1) - 29
PC - 6 (-2) - 24
this one is nice, though perhaps a little premature:
The polls have now closed in Nova Scotia, and CTV Atlantic is projecting an NDP government, the first ever in Atlantic Canada.
NDP Leader Darrell Dexter is now set to become the next premier of Nova Scotia.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090609/NS_election...
NDP leading in Glace Bay and neck-and-neck with the PCs in Cape Breton North.
Beliveau now way out in front in Shelburne, Conrad trailing the Liberals in Queens with only one poll in, Whynott out to a decent lead in Hammonds Plains, decent NDP lead in Guysborough, Paris trailing in Waverly-Fall River-Beaverbank (only 1 poll in), Whalen leading by 1 vote with 1 poll in Halifax-Clayton Park.
OMG, I just saw GBay, lol 43% of the vote province wide
NDP 22
Libs 12
PC 5
almost vote for vote, the NDP is taking votes from Tories. 23 now for NDP
NDP leads in Cumberland North! Conrad just left the Tories and Grits in her dust in Queens. NDP leading in Kings North and Lunenberg.
CBC just projected an NDP government!
just decalred by CBC as winner of election!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CBC projects NDP government. Not willing to say majority/minority yet.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nsvotes2009/map/2009/
oops, g, you beat me to it I see, I have tears in my eyes, I can't quite believe it, so many yrs!! Call me sentimental - I do not care , lol WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where's Jaihu? Trevor Zinck has 63% of the vote in Dartmouth North.
I suspect we swon't see him, think he was a Lib or Tory plant.
and of course, we were always going to win Dart North - that has been NDPO for a decade!
I was very nervous all day -- butterflies in my stomach -- but I seem to be feeling better now.
I'm heading for Dartmouth quite soon.
NDP 18
Lib 12
PC 7
There are six ridings way too close to call, three with margins of ONE vote! Chester St. Marg, Hfx Clyton Park - the former held by Tories , latter by Libs - both have us nipping at their heels.
Cumberalnd North the NDP WAY ahead! So glad I called that one, lol
oops, CUMBERLAND NORTH
In Colchester- Musquodoboit Valley, where Brooke Taylor won last time by 3,000 votes, Ken Streach who hails from a long time Tory family is behind by one vote.
Darn, Libs just jumped ahrad again in Glace Bay, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
But NDP has 46% of the vote which means one in two Nova Scotians has voted NDP!! How wonderful is that?
as a Lib commentator just said, the NDP is just on the verge of a Majority Govt!!!!
by the way, I predicted 30 NDP, 12 PC and 10 Libs and now is it is 30 NDP and 11 each for the others. Judy Stretch, wife of gerald Keddy and sister of the oth strech mentioned, is running third in Chester- St, Margaret's. The NDP is ahead! 157 vote lead!
CBC has just declared the NDP will form a MAJORITY govt!
NDP 31
Lib 11
PC 10
The 11 points gained by the NDP almost exclusively came from the PC's.
and where is my friend in Cumberaland North, now elected an NDP MLA!
NDP Gains- Eastern Shore, Cumberland North, (Tory since Charles Tupper), Lunenburg!, Guysborough, Truro Bible Hill(Lenore Zann- an interestng seat!),