My oh-so-convenient Globe-and-Mail Politics App says 22:00 EDT, but I’m sure it’s using my phone’s location. So here’s the straight dope from Elections Canada:
This is either Standard time or Daylight time for the various time zones. In each time zone, we start getting media coverage when the polls close. I thought they had it set up so that the polls close at the same instant (just expressed as different times in different time zones), or maybe two different instants, but looking at the list, that doesn’t seem to make sense.
Gosh, that’s much later than here, where voting ceases at 6.00pm.
So you’ve still got a couple of hours before the easternmost provinces finish voting, and then a couple more for the west to finish. Then the counting, which will presumably be close. So probably no result - if any - until late this afternoon perhaps.
Be not confused - I was responding from memory with information that’s about 15 years out of date.
I still remember what it was like tuning in from Manitoba to discover that the Liberals had already won despite not electing a single member west of Winnipeg.
Yes, the 1993 election was billed as a potential nailbiter but everyone in the Central timezone and west got to turn into Peter Mansbridge telling us it was over within 5 seconds.
Got around to voting around 7 or so. It was odd, as there seemed to be a line-up for one polling booth, but none for others…we just walked right up to our assigned one past a line of 15-20 people for another. Our polling station is in an old folk’s home, so the experience involves mandatory hand washing with Purell. Ours are the cleanest votes in Canada!
It is entirely possible that whether or not the Conservatives get a majority will come down to whether they win, say, 15 seats in BC versus 13. So it very well could be not just a nailbiter, but the nail-bitingest election in Canadian history.
I got a leak… Good GOD… all the polls were wrong… the very fabric of our country!
NATO will probably attack within hours of this being released. Prime Minister Dogg? Will the secession of Nova Scotia offset Argentinia… damn, I’ve said too much!
More interestingly, there is also a report that Prime Minister Harper campaigned on the radio this morning, in contravention of Elections Canada rules. I’m waiting to see if this gets picked up and confirmed by mainstream media, or whether this is a last-minute tactic to discredit the Prime Minister. Sadly, either one would seem to be possible with this election.
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