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Election results
Oct. 11th, 2007 05:50 amUnsurprisingly, the Liberals won a majority government with 71 seats, while taking only 42% of the vote. The NDP appears to have taken my riding, though the margin is slim enough that there's no check mark next to his name yet, and there may be a recount. It appears the Liberal candidate on the mountain squeaked through to hold that seat. She's been declared elected even though the margin is similarly slim. Other local ridings were no surprise.
The leader of the Conservative party lost his own seat to Kathleen Wynne, the education minister. (Tory chose to run in the riding in which he grew up, in Toronto, rather than in the safer northern riding where he won his seat to begin with. He gambled and lost, and Kathleen Wynne is the giant slayer. Anyone want to bet she's a future premier?) I think the Conservatives and the NDP are both in line for leadership conventions in the not-too-distant future.
The referendum didn't pass, to nobody's surprise but my great disappointment. It should have dominated the campaign, and it very clearly didn't.
So, that's the run-down. I was hoping for a slim majority or slim minority for the Liberals, in which the NDP would hold the balance of power, but I'm not particularly upset at these results.
The leader of the Conservative party lost his own seat to Kathleen Wynne, the education minister. (Tory chose to run in the riding in which he grew up, in Toronto, rather than in the safer northern riding where he won his seat to begin with. He gambled and lost, and Kathleen Wynne is the giant slayer. Anyone want to bet she's a future premier?) I think the Conservatives and the NDP are both in line for leadership conventions in the not-too-distant future.
The referendum didn't pass, to nobody's surprise but my great disappointment. It should have dominated the campaign, and it very clearly didn't.
So, that's the run-down. I was hoping for a slim majority or slim minority for the Liberals, in which the NDP would hold the balance of power, but I'm not particularly upset at these results.