The Ontario Provincial Election

[Scot4bz]

According to the news this morning the televised debate was the most watched program on Tuesday - they specifically mentioned that it beat out the Leafs/Sens game.

 

[The Red Polar Bear]

According to the news this morning the televised debate was the most watched program on Tuesday - they specifically mentioned that it beat out the Leafs/Sens game.

Well, that's probably cause the game was on LeafsTV.
(I think; I was out and missed both the game and the debate)

 

[Number 5]

According to the news this morning the televised debate was the most watched program on Tuesday - they specifically mentioned that it beat out the Leafs/Sens game.

Did they include those watching it streamed in those numbers?

 

[Scot4bz]

According to the news this morning the televised debate was the most watched program on Tuesday - they specifically mentioned that it beat out the Leafs/Sens game.

Did they include those watching it streamed in those numbers?

I doubt it, but it wasn't mentioned one way or another - I think they were just talking about TV viewing.

 

[McPwnage]

Anyone watched the debate Tuesday night?

yup, well until the Leafs game was on.  It sounded like the Liberals and the NDP/PC were living in completly different realities, the question is whos reality do you believe?

 

[Leafaholic99]

Provincial election tonight, same night the NHL season kicks off with the Leafs and Habs, they sure picked a good night for the election!

Let's see if Ontario can beat Manitoba's turnout, we had only 57% of people vote.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

Is it sad that I care more about the fact that Mr Jobs passed away yesterday than I do about the provincial election today?

 

[L K]

I'd just like to thank the Conservative Candidate Nancy Branscombe for skipping EVERY SINGLE DEBATE in London, but managed to have the awesome time to do create geometric patterns and gauntlets of campaign signs.

 

[Number 5]

I'd just like to thank the Conservative Candidate Nancy Branscombe for skipping EVERY SINGLE DEBATE in London, but managed to have the awesome time to do create geometric patterns and gauntlets of campaign signs.

So she'll be the winner by a wide margin, right?

 

[Darryl]

I'd just like to thank the Conservative Candidate Nancy Branscombe for skipping EVERY SINGLE DEBATE in London, but managed to have the awesome time to do create geometric patterns and gauntlets of campaign signs.

Sounds like she went to the Conservative MP Ed Holder school of campaigning.

 

[Kin]

Well, whoever wins the election I hope they get right to work on fixing the economy and have it done in a few weeks because, if there's one thing I've learned following this campaign, it's that the Ontario economy is so independent from the larger national/international conditions it exists in that it really, really matters who the premier is.

 

[Kin]

CBC is calling another Liberal government.

 

[bustaheims]

CBC is calling another Liberal government.

So are CTV.

 

[Derk]

Interesting numbers - by the percentages, Liberals and PC are only a little over 1% apart, but it's the distribution that counts. Looks like it will be a minority government, though, unless the Liberals pick up a few more seats.

 

[bustaheims]

Interesting numbers - by the percentages, Liberals and PC are only a little over 1% apart, but it's the distribution that counts. Looks like it will be a minority government, though, unless the Liberals pick up a few more seats.

TVO has them elected or leading in 53. One more, and they'd have a majority.

 

[Derk]

Interesting numbers - by the percentages, Liberals and PC are only a little over 1% apart, but it's the distribution that counts. Looks like it will be a minority government, though, unless the Liberals pick up a few more seats.

TVO has them elected or leading in 53. One more, and they'd have a majority.

CBC now has them in 54. (Edit: back to 53 - guess we will just have to wait).

Looking at CBC's map of Ontario, there's not a lot of red - until you zoom in - Toronto, Hamilton, Windsor, Ottawa, Niagara.

 

[bustaheims]

CBC now has them in 54.

Yeah. TVO have had them flipping between 53 and 54. Lot of ridings with less than 200 votes separating. Could go either way, but, even at 53, that Liberals would have a virtual, though, unofficial, majority.

 

[Derk]

CBC now has them in 54.

Yeah. TVO have had them flipping between 53 and 54. Lot of ridings with less than 200 votes separating. Could go either way, but, even at 53, that Liberals would have a virtual, though, unofficial, majority.

Looks like most of the major urban centres have voted Liberal, and most of the rural have gone conservative (with NDP / Lib in the far north).

 

[Kin]

If the CBC comment section is any indication, a lot of people are moving out of the province in protest of this centrist minority government.

 

[bustaheims]

Looks like most of the major urban centres have voted Liberal, and most of the rural have gone conservative (with NDP / Lib in the far north).

Not really surprising. The Conservatives have really been up against it in urban centres (especially in the 416) on a provincial level since Mike Harris.