The BC Provincial Election
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Sapio @ Tue May 12, 2009 10:37 pm
RUEZ RUEZ:
Sapio Sapio:
Carol James is just not getting the job done. They are so close and if they had a better leader, which they do not, they could have won this election.
Goes to show how unpopular the Libs are. Even with a leader like her and the faint stank of the NDP still on BC they got a large percentage of votes.
Yeah, I took a BC history class this year and we talked about why the left has always been strong in BC and that for most of our history the government has been a mix of the right against the Left. Take the Bennett government and this one.
sandorski @ Tue May 12, 2009 10:53 pm
woo, Liberals win again. Like I said earlier in the thread, they were really the only Choice.
Sapio @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:17 pm
Mine is close as well. Less than 100 votes between them.
RUEZ @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:19 pm
sandorski sandorski:
woo, Liberals win again. Like I said earlier in the thread, they were really the only Choice.
Unless you live outside of the GVRD and want decent healthcare.
Sapio @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:32 pm
lily lily:
Sapio Sapio:
Mine is close as well. Less than 100 votes between them.
Mine's closer.
I'm actually surprised. People here are upset aobut a few issues, and believe the gov't didn't listen to them... so they want to send an independant to Victoria?
You beat me. Mine is up to almost 200 votes now.
Sapio @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:36 pm
lily lily:
Mine is still at 15.
Wally Oppal (Lib) - 8118 (42.29%)
Vicki Huntington (Ind) - 8103 (42.21%)
Wally Oppal (Lib) - 8118 (42.29%)
Vicki Huntington (Ind) - 8103 (42.21%)
No matter what happens there, that is going to a re-count.
Sapio @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:42 pm
As of now. It looks like STV is not passing. Looks like only 6 or so ridings are voting for it.
http://results.elections.bc.ca/REF-2009-001.html
Proculation @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:54 pm
wow, 60% to change the voting system of a province but Quebec would only need 50% to separate... that tells a lot.
Well, at least you didn't get the NDP !
RUEZ @ Tue May 12, 2009 11:56 pm
Proculation Proculation:
Well, at least you didn't get the NDP !
Ya we don't need properly funded healthcare.
Proculation @ Wed May 13, 2009 12:02 am
RUEZ RUEZ:
Proculation Proculation:
Well, at least you didn't get the NDP !
Ya we don't need properly funded healthcare.
I don't know what was the issues of that election. Here in Quebec anyway the two parties are the same. The difference: one is separatist and the other is not. Everything else is the same. That's why I don't follow provincial politics that much.
But just thinking that you would get the NDP... that's scary.
Sapio @ Wed May 13, 2009 12:08 am
Both of them are bad, both are big government statist. The Liberals are only 0.1 percent better.
Proculation @ Wed May 13, 2009 12:13 am
wow only a few percents for the conservatives. are they that bad there ?
xerxes @ Wed May 13, 2009 12:18 am
They're mostly non-existant. The Liberals are in many ways our Conservative Party. The only difference from the national and other provincial versions is the lack of religious conservatism. Our Liberals are almost purely economic conservatives.
Proculation @ Wed May 13, 2009 12:23 am
xerxes xerxes:
They're mostly non-existant. The Liberals are in many ways our Conservative Party. The only difference from the national and other provincial versions is the lack of religious conservatism. Our Liberals are almost purely economic conservatives.
Oh really. Interesting.
I know that the only provincial Liberal party that is not affiliated with the federal Liberal party is in Quebec. Like I said, our Liberal party is much like the Parti québécois but without the separatist thing.
sandorski @ Wed May 13, 2009 12:25 am
Proculation Proculation:
wow only a few percents for the conservatives. are they that bad there ?
Not really. BC's Political history has long been dominated by a Liberal/Conservative coalition of sorts. Began with the Social Credit Party and now lives in the BC Liberal Party. Both the Social Credit and current Liberals are BC's Pro-Business parties, Center-Right. The NDP being the Left, as it is everywhere.
Most of the "Conservative" parties in BC are fringe far Right, for the most part. The Pro-Christian Social Conservative and other Rightwing fringes.
Xerxes beat me to it, he laid it out very well.
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