Election results

[velvetpage]

Unsurprisingly, 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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It serves Tory right for losing having sided against the referendum for electoral reform.

It also serves him right for opening Pandora's box about religious school funding in the first place, rather than on the issues that most Ontarians were talking about up to July when Tory announced his position.

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[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

It serves Tory right for losing having sided against the referendum for electoral reform.

It also serves him right for opening Pandora's box about religious school funding in the first place, rather than on the issues that most Ontarians were talking about up to July when Tory announced his position.

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[girlydoll.livejournal.com]

Im happy with the results, suprised the NDP took my area though. You wanted a change in the voting structure? Personally I like the way it is, but that is just me.

Much better a liberal/ndp the way it was BEFORE the conservatives forced the issue, then a conservative leadership... I shudder to think what would have happened.

I even got Rodney to vote, I am so proud of myself :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I definitely wanted a change. I don't think First-Past-The-Post is very democratic - as evidenced by the fact that the Liberals won two thirds of the seats with only 42% of the vote.

[grrl-next-door.livejournal.com]

My attitude exactly (the last part of your post).

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.

I ran into my professor in the hall and had a chat with him about this, randomly, haha. (p.s. since when am I into politics?! since I had a midterm to study for yesterday and decided to watch the election results instead!)
anyways, he brought it to my attention that the liberal and conservative parties never once mentioned the MMP. They could have totally brought it up and bashed it, but they both decided to ignore it completely, and as a result a lot of people didn't even know what it was. Good strategy. Maybe that was obvious to everyone, but I was like whoa, never saw it that way.. haha.