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First-past-the-post = big NDP majority in Nova Scotia
Proportional representation = two fascists elected in England
Actually I think Manitoba and Sask have some of the lower unemployment rates right now. And Saskatchewan is a veritable haven for public enterprise and social democratic progress compared to the more neoliberalised provinces.
Congratulations to all new democrats. Well done and very exciting.
Doesn't the difference have to be less than one percentage point for there to be an automatic re-count?
Honestly though, the Liberals did piss poor tonight. They got less seats than they did under Danny Graham. And they're one... ONE... seat ahead of the Tories. And they got less than 3% more of the vote than the Tories. Not sure how celebratory many Liberals will be... or should be.
And with Younger, you get a self-promoting blowhard who won because all the Tory vote collapsed and it appears it went to him (Tory vote went from 33% to 10%). One of his HRM councillor colleagues said it was HRM's win and NS's loss tonight.
If the Tories pick a half decent leader, being one seat out of official opposition isn't going to matter especially considering their long history in this province.
But so many highlights tonight... strong NDP wins in rural NS like Colchester and Cumberland. WOW! And Zann winning Truro Bible-Hill when critics around here said... get this... she was too "exotic" for that riding. She won with 48% of the vote
No one on CBC mentioned our 29% female caucus, although 29% is not bad:
Denise Peterson-Rafuse, Chester-St. Margaret's, new
Ramona Jennex, Kings South, new
Pam Birdsall, Lunenburg, new
Lenore Zann, Truro-Bible Hill, new
Becky Kent, Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage, re-elected
Michele Raymond, Halifax Atlantic, re-elected
Vicki Conrad, Queens, re-elected
Maureen MacDonald, Halifax Needham, re-elected
Marilyn More, Dartmouth South-Portland Valley, re-elected
Congratulations! Fabulous news! :)
Um... Barbara Gallagher didn't win... sadly :( Great candidate.
Elections Nova Scotia says she did.
Yes, Barbara Gallagher by a landslide: 6052 votes
Paula Lunn(Liberal): 1498
NS election results(pdf)
Unfortunately, you will see the identical numbers for the previous riding as well. A glitch. Sorry.
They also show a Green coming a close second, Marilyn More failing to get re-elected, and god knows what else.
Gee that's bad.
Election footnote:
Greens get 2% of vote
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Election/9012097.html
Actually, 2.3%
The leader ran in the riding with by far the largest student population, and got 4%
So, with as much total revenue as the NSNDP had in the mid-Nineties, in the 3 years since public funding started the NSGP has gone backwards slightly in the vote share. In fact, barely maintaining the 2% required to keep that $11,000 per month coming in.
And the little attention they got during the campaign was a hundred times more than they get the rest of the time. Yet they spent only $30K of all that money on the election?
Certainly wonder where the money does go.
I hate to do it to this awesome thread :) but...closing for length. Please do continue in a new one. :)