Eh, Canada: Everybody Lost Your Election!
Canada has spoken, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives got 143 seats in the House of Commons, thereby hanging on to their minority control of the government. But they fell short of the 155 seats they needed to win a majority, which means things haven't changed much in Ottawa, despite all the exciting partisan rancor of the past few weeks.
As for the Liberals, they wanted to win — well, I'm assuming they just wanted to win more than this…
The Conservatives have won about 37 per cent of the popular vote, up one percentage point from 2006.
But [Stephane] Dion's Liberals garnered the lowest share of popular vote the party had ever tallied — lower than the 28 per cent the John Turner-led Liberals garnered in 1984.
On the tree-hugging side of the ballot, the Greens picked up 6.8 percent of the popular vote, but they still haven't managed to win a single seat in Parliament. Oh yeah, and with 59% of eligible voters going to the polls, this election had the lowest turnout on record.
In the interest of cheering up our Canadian friends, here's my favorite clip from Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans." Nothing takes the edge off a losery election like seeing Mike Huckabee, a real American loser, complimenting you on your national igloo.
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that was funny. whats the best political blog for canadian issues?
Squat?! The NDP picked up 8 more seats during this election and got a higher popular vote than the bloc. Jack Layton and Elizabeth May will really be missing out if they don't demand a switch to proportional representation now. and I got to meet Olivia Chow, so that was cool.
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Sigh… business as usual. What a waste of money this election was. What changed? Squat divided by all.