Official Canadian Election Thread

[MikelArteta]

voted for the Lib candidate in our riding.

Goodbye Harper, Kenny, and all the rest of those scumbag cacs.

sorbara?

 

[bsmooth]

Liberal majority coming

 

[RileyC]

live coverage started

. east coast doesn't fukk with harper. hopefully all of canada is like this.

 

[MVike28]

sorbara?

Strategic voting

Green party and ndp have zero chance

 

[RileyC]

if liberals get majority

 

[JulesWinfield]

My first time voting today. Feels good.

 

[Savior]

Wynne fukking up Ontario doe...doesnt really matter who's in charge at the end of it. Still voted Liberal

 

[waltthizzney]

CAC HARPER IS GONE

FINALLY REAL FEDERAL LEADERSHIP HAS COME BACK TO CANADA! #DOYOUSMELLWHATTHEJUSTINISCOOKING?

 

[MikelArteta]

Breh were you just voting

Saw a black breh with hiz wife and a strollers

Strategic voting

Green party and ndp have zero chance

 

[Tate]

NDP gonna suffer badly from voters deciding that Harper being out is worth voting for the lesser evil.

Preferable to a prospective continuing conservative government however.

 

[MVike28]

Breh were you just voting

Saw a black breh with hiz wife and a strollers

Nah voted this morning at 11:30am at that school on via campanele

 

[MikelArteta]

Nah voted this morning at 11:30am at that school on via campanele

oh Pierre Berton

 

[MikelArteta]

NDP gonna suffer badly from voters deciding that Harper being out is worth voting for the lesser evil.

Preferable to a prospective continuing conservative government however.

mulclair blew this election

 

[MikelArteta]

i voted conservative
the evil that I know is better than the evil I don't


liberals got this though

• Liberals win six out of seven ridings in Newfoundland, with one riding still too close to call.

• St. John’s East in N.L. is a close race between incumbent NDP candidate Jack Harris and Liberal candidate Nick Whalen. Harris has been MP for that riding since 2008.

• In St. John's South-Mount Pearl, Liberal candidate (and former CTV correspondent) Seamus O'Regan has defeated incumbent NDP candidate Ryan Cleary.

• In New Brunswick, the Liberals have won seven out of ten ridings. Bernard Valcourt, who was the Aboriginal Affairs Minister, lost his seat to Liberal René Arseneault in Madawaska-Restigouche. The Liberals are leading in the other four ridings.

• In Nova Scotia, the Liberals are have won all 11 ridings — including in Peter MacKay’s old riding of Central Nova.

• In P.E.I. the Liberals have won all four ridings, defeating Conservative candidate Gail Shea, the former minister of Fisheries and Oceans, in her riding of Egmont

 

[MikelArteta]

The Liberals have so far elected 29 MPs in Atlantic Canada and are leading in all of the 32 ridings. If the trend continues, the Conservatives would lose all of their 13 seats.

The losses for the Conservatives include two cabinet ministers: Conservative Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea in P.E.I. and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt in New Brunswick.

Among other significant losses include Peter MacKay's former riding in Central Nova, a riding that the former defence minister had held since 1997. Meanwhile, the NDP was poised to lose all six seats it has held.

Success there has not necessarily an indication of how the rest of the evening will go. The region has on several occasions bucked national trends.