2014 Ontario Provincial Election

Oh for christ’s sake. A Liberal majority?!

Yeah, although the numbers are close, and there are still a few riding not reporting yet (polls haven’t even closed in Kenora – Rainy River due to flooding delaying things). And many ridings will be close races. So we’ll see. I agree that a Liberal government is looking very likely at this point.

It’s fucking mind boggling.

That was me. Sorry.

Okay, actually I’m in Oshawa. Never mind.

It might just be - they’re leading/elected in mid-fifties number of ridings right now, and they only need 54.

CBC calls it for the Liberals, but don’t predict whether it will be a majority yet.

This was an absolutely disastrous campaign by the PCs.

This is a really long quote from a comment on one of the newspapers. Sorry for the length, but I couldn’t link to it. Fascinating.

[ The first 20 were easily linked: - Mod ]
20 lies the Libs told you

National Post is predicting 57 seats for the Liberals.

Looks like the PC vote share may actually be significantly down from 2011 - it’s at 30.25% right now, compared to 35.45% last time. Most of the difference is NDP gains.

Tim Hudak needs to resign I guess.

I want Lisa MacLeod in as the leader.

CBC projects a majority. Unbelievable.

Hopefully the PC party learns the right lesson from this. A centre-right platform should have gotten them a majority.

The geographic distribution suggests PC support may have fell down to their traditional base. I see rural, farming areas in southern Ontario in blue, but not much else.

Northeastern Ontario looks to be an NDP sweep, with wide margins in all ridings except two. In Sudbury, the NDP is narrowly leading the Liberals following the retirement of cabinet minister Rick Bartolucci; in Nipissing, former North Bay mayor Vic Fedeli is elected in Mike Harris’ old riding.

Greater Toronto and Hamilton - basically the GO Transit service area - are almost all Liberal, with a few spots of orange. Maybe The Big Move sold well?

Urban areas in the south outside the GT(H)A - Windsor, Niagara, Ottawa, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, all look to go Liberal or NDP.

Huh, the libs, cons, and NDP are all within 10% of each other, but the seat count for the libs are quite good. Any Tories in favour for proportional representation now? :slight_smile:

Nah, I expect to see them start a “unite the fringe” campaign with the NDP. :wink:

Absolutely befuddling. I can’t believe they voted them back in power. Again.

Hudak is about as charismatic and dynamic as a block of wood though, time for him to go. He should of been booted out the last time around I thought. He should of won that one as well.

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I must have had him confused with Zorg from The Fifth Element.

Either way, he was never going to get to his chosen number via attrition. Is there a lot of potential in privatization? Privatize the LCBO perhaps?

In any case, it’s moot for this time around.

There is very little positive one can take from this result. It’s arguably the most objectively incompetent government to ever be re-elected in the history of the province, or, in my lifetime, in ANY province.

About the only slim hope I have is that by virtue of having a majority the Liberals won’t have to bother trying to please the NDP and will now implement the cuts they quietly said they were going to implement in two years anyway.

Moving into grammar nazi territory like the rest of them, really Jeff?

Go fuck yourself, and every other retard on this board.

Jeff?

You made the same grammatical error in two sentences in a row: the type of grammatical error that usually gets corrected by grade 7.

Sorry for pointing it out.

ETA: The election results leave me grumpy.