DonLever Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 As expected, the NDP has won both BC By-Elections tonight. Joe Trasolini won the Port Moody-Coquitlam with more than 50% of the popular vote. Gwen O'Mahony won more than 40% of the popular vote in Chilliwack-Hope. The Liberals finish 2nd in both ridings. The BC Conservatives finished 3rd in both ridings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 The Conservatives will split the right vote, and usher in another era of the NDP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Brown Burrows Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Lookin' good for the NDP. Next election should be an easy NDP win. * provincial election Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonLever Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 The Conservatives will split the right vote, and usher in another era of the NDP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfect From Now On Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 what's the seat distribution in parliament looking like now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magikal Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 While all the parties are corrupt and full of BS I still think the NDP are the lesser of the three evils. Orange crush! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapper Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 In true BC Liberal style they are blaming everyone but themselves for the loss. Just like the true narcacists they are - they are simplyl not capable of comprehending that people are not happy with them. In Chilliwack the total votes cast for candidates other then the NDP where greater then 50% - instead of accepting that the majority of the voters chose NOT to vote Liberal they blame a split on the right. They have some kind of magic ball that told them that if the Conservatives had not run they would have gotten all their votes on top of theirs. The BC Liberals simply refuse to accept that voters are mad at them - and their policies. Just like the HST disaster they will blame everyone and everything but themselves. The magic number is 6 liberals to cross the floor to the Conservatives and the Libs will loose the House Majority. Not sure which will happen first - a BC Liberal Leadership review to pick a new leader or the house falling on a vote of confidence after they see folks cross parties. In any event their inability to accept that voters are not happy with their direction is going to see the BC Liberals go the way of the socreds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamero89 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 While all the parties are corrupt and full of BS I still think the NDP are the lesser of the three evils. Orange crush! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbo Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 In Chilliwack-Hope, the split in the right wing vote help elect the NDP first ever win in that riding. The NDP candidate had about 42%, the Liberals, 32%, the Conservatives 25%. It does not take a genius to add up the numbers together of the Tories and Libs to see why the NDP won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 The Conservatives will split the right vote, and usher in another era of the NDP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckNut4Life Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 what's the seat distribution in parliament looking like now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 The Conservatives will split the right vote, and usher in another era of the NDP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 John Cummins wins it for the NDP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 As much as the NDP suck at governing, I guess them getting elected is a cycle that needs to happen once every couple of decades, to keep the right wing parties honest. The right wing parties just need to clean house, regroup and reorganize quickly enough, so that we can elect them (whatever name they go by, ie. SoCred, Liberal, Conservative...) again after one NDP term instead of two before too much damage is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Here's hoping the NDP does a better job than last time. At least they set the bar low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Situation Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Assuming all Conservative voters would have voted Liberal, which is not a safe assumption. I imagine there are many past Liberal supporters who are tired of them and wanted to vote for a change, but took the option to vote Conservative instead of NDP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Situation Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 As much as the NDP suck at governing, I guess them getting elected is a cycle that needs to happen once every couple of decades, to keep the right wing parties honest. The right wing parties just need to clean house, regroup and reorganize quickly enough, so that we can elect them (whatever name they go by, ie. SoCred, Liberal, Conservative...) again after one NDP term instead of two before too much damage is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfect From Now On Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalie13 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 SO sad that this is the way of thinking when people vote. It is even sadder that you are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllHailSmyl Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 what's the seat distribution in parliament looking like now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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