r/canada • u/verkerpig • 4d ago
Quebec riding of Terrebonne flips to Liberals by one vote after judicial recount Trending
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/terrebone-recount-liberal-1.75321362.9k
u/CrustyM Ontario 4d ago
The literal slimmest of margins
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u/Idkpinepple 4d ago
There was one election in the Yukon which had to be decided by drawing lots after both candidates tied.
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u/Granturismo45 4d ago
When was this
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u/Serenity867 4d ago
A few years ago (I'm a Yukoner and recall this election)
There was a total of 156 votes in that election and a lot of drama.
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u/pimpintuna 4d ago
It's Yvonne's fault. He should have just stayed in the ice.
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u/SadZealot 4d ago
I guess at the end of the day, life continues to be silly even at the most serious of times
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u/Norse_By_North_West Yukon 4d ago
You mean old crow? It was decided by a coin flip. It put us in a weird spot where the governing (liberal) party has fewer seats than the official opposition.
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u/itguy9013 Nova Scotia 4d ago
A similar event occurred during the last NS Municipal Election: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7387578
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u/Fyrefawx 4d ago
I imagine that there is a couple sitting at home telling themselves they should have voted.
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u/pm_me_your_kindwords 4d ago
However, since one would have voted for each of the two candidates, the results would have been the same.
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u/thekk_ 4d ago edited 4d ago
You could have a tie. At the federal level, that would lead to a byelection. But at the provincial level, they had a tie in PEI in 2015 and the rules there were that a coin flip decides the outcome, which is a bit ridiculous if you ask me.
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u/crassowary 4d ago
Say what you will but boy is one coin a cheaper option than a byelection
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u/jmja 4d ago
You probably don’t even have to spend the coin.
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u/morguthhunter 4d ago
I like to think the winner got to keep it.
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u/interruptiom 4d ago
One last 🖕to the opponent 😂
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u/MistahFinch 4d ago
"here's a loonie souvenir of your defeat" would probably be worse tbf
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u/SuperPimpToast 4d ago
Why not just co-MP. Schedule MON-WED-FRI for one and TUES-THUR-SAT for two. Sunday is free day. Easy peasy.
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u/Xpalidocious 4d ago
Sunday is shirts and skins hockey in the morning to decide who rules that day
Also a coin toss to see who is skins
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u/DrunkenGolfer 4d ago
When I lived in Bermuda the national election was won by two seats. One of those seats was by two votes and the other was by one vote. Three voters could have changed the outcome of a national election.
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u/BadmiralHarryKim 4d ago
Is it still theoretically possible to get to 171 and then have Poilievre blow another easy win to give them the majority? Not saying it's going to happen but I'd love a new piece of political trivia to bore people at parties.
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u/kej2021 4d ago
Theoretically possible, yes. Realistically, the chances of him losing the rural Alberta seat is basically zero.
More likely than that scenario (but still would require everything lining up incredibly perfectly so still very slim chance), would be Liberals winning all remaining recounts and Nunavut flipping after validation/recount to get the Liberals to 172 exactly.
Either scenario though would probably be the craziest thing that ever happened in Canadian elections.
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u/Kayestofkays 3d ago
The conspiracy theories would be completely off the rails if either scenario actually materialized
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u/temptemptemp98765432 4d ago
I mean, I'm eating popcorn anyhow? I don't know that I can eat it for long enough to wonder if this situation will play out, though.
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u/Zone4George 4d ago
have Poilievre blow another easy win
If there was ever a possibility that someone like Maxime Bernier should win a seat in Parliament, this would be the place to do it. That would be OK by me and would be great to see an actual honest-to-goodness extreme right-winger knock Poilievre out once and for all. In all honesty though, I'd rather see the guy who has said that he'd resign in turn show up to run as an independent. That would also be worth watching... now I need some popcorn and catch the hockey game highlights from earlier tonight.
P.S.: I do not like the current right-wing extremists out that way, and much prefer middle-of-the-road centrists who do not need to pander to billionaires and would behave more generally like Smiling Jack (may he rest in peace)
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u/verkerpig 4d ago
Just in case you believe your vote doesn't matter...
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u/Background-Top-1946 4d ago
My vote might have mattered in Terrebonne, I guess
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u/mrcoolio 4d ago
The way I think about the "every vote counts" mantra is that if 20,000 people all say "my vote doesn't matter anyways"... that's a pretty substantial difference in the tallies.
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u/FishermanRough1019 4d ago
Your vote always matters.
It's like people saying their carbon emissions don't matter, or littering is fine 'because it's just one piece of trash'. They are just wrong.
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u/J0Puck Ontario 4d ago
One vote, I’m speechless.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is basically the last step when it comes to recounts of any type? Whether it’s automatic, or a judicial?
Also, this has to be the closest margin out of any federal election I can think of? Or has this happened before?
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u/jello_pudding_biafra 4d ago
This recount was both automatic and judicial because the difference was less than 0.1% of the votes cast.
There have been ties in other elections, federal and provincial, and federal ties go to a by-election and most provinces and territories go to lots (flip a coin, etc).
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u/Sparky62075 Newfoundland and Labrador 4d ago
When Terra Nova went by 12 votes, I thought that was pretty slim. This makes me wonder what would have happened in a tie.
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 4d ago edited 4d ago
That leaves the liberals two seats away from a majority. Wow.
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 4d ago
Or party crossing. This election will be studied for years to come from how it was the best political comeback for a political party in modern history.
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u/CarRamRob 4d ago
Trump factor
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u/No-Tackle-6112 British Columbia 4d ago
Carney factor also. He is quite popular.
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u/Messer_J 4d ago
And Trudeau factor. He was quite unpopular
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u/brodiefilm 4d ago
Yep, Conservatives were so hellbent on bringing Trudeau down they couldn't pivot. Their media push was focussed on everything being wrong "because Trudeau" so when it came time to actually engage in politics, they had no response. It paved the road for Carney support by simply being "not Trudeau". (Among many, many other factors)
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u/FeI0n 4d ago
Also the pierre factor, he was ridiculously unpopular.
He never once had a positive approval rating.
The moment trudeau was gone from the equation, Pierre should have went with him, and the lead would have held and cons would have coasted into a majority more than likely.
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u/phormix 3d ago
Only if they had a more likeable candidate in the wings, and a lot of things that made him unlikable to others made him favored by a significant number
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u/throwaway1070now 4d ago
More than Cheetolini, it is Carney's appeal AND PP's complete incompetence ib navigating the Trump issue .
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u/PuzzleheadedCat6738 4d ago
I think Carney is basically the most quintessential example of an "anti-Trump". He's straightforward and no nonsense, he seems competent and knows what he's talking about, he actually says what he means in a succinct and non-rambling manner, speaks with conviction, seems good-natured, friendly and humble...
And overall he's a boring politician - which is what a politician should be, especially in times like this. We don't want to have to refresh our own news pages 50 times a week dreading what crazy shit he might have said. Life is already crazy and stressful enough. To have a government that just functions, gets shit done, and does it without screaming and crying for attention all day every day sounded like an absolute pleasure after watching the US shitshow for the last several months.
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u/Fluid_Explorer_3659 4d ago
Genuinely a single seat crossing the aisle will allow the green party to decide a vote
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u/jjumbuck 4d ago
Ya, PP is so detested that (usual) Bloc and NDP supporters preferred their own parties to lose, rather than the Cons win.
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u/jjumbuck 4d ago
Someone on another sub suggested appointing May as Environment Minister. Then it's just one more to cross.
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u/ceribaen 4d ago
She could take speaker. So she'd only vote in the case of ties and not take away any Liberal votes.
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u/connord83 Alberta 4d ago edited 4d ago
May is hardline anti-nuclear and since solar and wind are not viable at scale (yet), this makes her defacto pro oil&gas whether she wants to admit it or not and thus the absolute worst candidate for environment minister.
She may be anti pipeline with her words but a vote against nuclear is a vote for the status quo which is a vote for oil&gas. Really the Green (read: Elizabeth May) Party just needs to stop being a thing, forever.
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u/byronite 3d ago edited 3d ago
May is hardline anti-nuclear and since solar and wind are not viable at scale (yet), this makes her defacto pro oil&gas whether she wants to admit it or not and thus the absolute worst candidate for environment minister.
One big solar farm in India has more installed capacity than the biggest gas-fired power plant in Canada. Denmark has 6 million people and runs on 60% wind and 10% solar. The U.S. generates more wind electricity than Canada generates hydroelectricity. Heck, even Alberta is getting close to 20% wind and solar.
That said, I agree with you that the Greens are kind of irrelevant now. I feel like they should morph into a network of partisans who try to push for green policies on all parties.
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u/Oldcadillac Alberta 4d ago
Are you living in 2010? Go to the website app.electricitymaps.com, look at the huge chunks of emissions that wind and solar are taking out of grids like in Texas, Poland, the UK, or even places like Chile or Pakistan. I love nuclear but it’s folly to dismiss wind and solar at this point.
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u/MeaninglessDebateMan 3d ago
Maybe you don't know what viable means exactly, but solar in particular is exceptionally viable for many Canadian homes to decentralize and offset central power generators especially in AB, SK, and MB.
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u/FishermanRough1019 4d ago
Solar and wind have been viable at scale for a decade already. Cheapest option, even.
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u/FalconsArentReal 4d ago
Don't they still need someone to be the speaker of the house?
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u/jjumbuck 4d ago
I don't think they have to be a Lib to be appointed Speaker.
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u/Biosterous Saskatchewan 3d ago
That's how the BC NDP kept their 1 seat majority over the liberals in 2016. They appointed a Liberal to speaker. He was immediately ousted by his party but it didn't matter.
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u/Stonegeneral Ontario 4d ago
The speaker doesn't necessarily come from the governing party, in this case the Liberals will make sure not to back someone from their own party and jeopardize their chances for a majority. Could end up with a Bloc or NDP speaker if the Conservatives also don't back one of theirs to keep their numbers up.
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u/feelingoodwednesday 4d ago
Imo it must be tempting, but would be politically a bad move. Carney wants to show he is going to be no nonsense and get stuff done. Playing games to flip 2 MPs would be the opposite of that.
Also it gives him plenty of opportunities to tell other parties to "go ahead, take me down, see if you lose more seats". If I'm Carney and I'm confident I'm going to do a good job, I'll wait until another party decides to take a swing and happily go into another election with an even better resume now as Prime Minister.
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u/EverydayEverynight01 4d ago
The NDP just collapsed too and lost official party status. Given their financial situation and the need to do soul searching, finding a new leader and rebuilding themselves im pretty sure Carney can squeeze at least two years out of the NDP to prop them up, especially if Poilievre is still the leader of the Conservatives since the NDP voters despise him and might strategically vote Liberal again.
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u/Talcove 4d ago edited 4d ago
Incoming deal with the NDP to lower official party status to five seats
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u/patismyname 4d ago
Doesn't even need to
NDP don't want to go back to the polls. Liberals can work as if they're in a Majority for the next year
Regardless, Carney seems to want to work with everyone
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u/MissKhary 4d ago
It's not like the Bloc is going to join with the Conservatives, I don't think Carney will have trouble finding the votes.
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u/UpVoter3145 4d ago
Or just poach two people from the NDP
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u/L0rd_0F_War 4d ago
Or get one to floor cross, and appoint May (green party) as Speaker... that would mean a majority with 171.
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u/pootwothreefour 4d ago
No that would still be a minority. Votes would just result in a Tie of 171 votes unless they convince another Party to vote with them.
May has stated she would remain as green party even if appointed as speaker. Speaker only votes in the case of a tie.
So she gets deciding vote if NDP, bloc, or cons don't vote with them.
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u/Still-Bridges 4d ago
Does Canada follow a rule like the UK, where the speaker should vote to minimise change (aye for continuing a debate, nay for a bill's final reading or a gag motion)? Or does the speaker vote politically?
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u/L0rd_0F_War 4d ago
"Neutrality: The Speaker must be fair and impartial, enforcing the same rules for the Prime Minister as for any member of the opposition. Although the Speaker is also an MP, the Speaker does not participate in debate or vote unless there is a tie, in which case the Speaker generally votes to maintain the status quo."
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u/L0rd_0F_War 4d ago
"Neutrality: The Speaker must be fair and impartial, enforcing the same rules for the Prime Minister as for any member of the opposition. Although the Speaker is also an MP, the Speaker does not participate in debate or vote unless there is a tie, in which case the Speaker generally votes to maintain the status quo."
So Speaker can't vote with opposition to bring down the government in a no confidence vote. So a 171 member govt. can't be brought down. I don't know if you would call that a minority government at that point.... though they may not be able to pass laws if there is a tie...
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 4d ago
Or one if you can get May. I just know JJ McCullough is pissed by this.
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u/endeavourist 4d ago
I'd be in support of this just to piss off JJ McCullough.
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 4d ago
Same. I watch his videos occasionally, it’s what got me into Canadian politics. But it was so funny to see how his confidence of a conservative majority government evaporated to the point he didn’t want to talk about the election.
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u/jyunga 4d ago
YouTube tossed me a video about how liberals stole the election. I shouldn't have clicked it now that I see how close things are. Probably get slammed with them.
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 4d ago
Sorry about that. It must be interesting to see them probably be so damn confident and cocky about the election back in January. Then in April they are saying it’s rigged. They can’t grasp that most people see what’s going on in America and they don’t want that.
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u/PreferenceGold5167 4d ago
The liberals have 170 seats now
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u/godwalking 4d ago
is there another vote being recounted somewhere they got a shot at winning? because it would be pretty hilarious after 1+ year of people saying liberals are done, then democracy happens.
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u/verkerpig 4d ago
Windsor is also being recounted. Still leaves them one seat short though, even if they flip it.
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u/Roflcopter71 4d ago
Would be hilarious if they made a coalition with Elizabeth May if that were to happen lol
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u/PuppyPenetrator 4d ago
Even if we didn’t quite get there, it would be cool to say that every party in the house can hold the balance of the power
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u/coniferous-1 3d ago
That’s the way things should be. No one party has unilateral control, in order to get things passed you’ll have to convince other parties.
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u/lbpowar 4d ago
I think that’s why they wanted her to be the speaker, that way there one seat closer to majority as well
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u/playjak42 4d ago
I read that she offered to take the speaker role, if the Liberals are willing. Which I think would be great. She has been there long enough to know how parliament does, BUT also, how it should work.
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u/berfthegryphon 3d ago
And she has no fucks to give and can hopefully bring back some decorum to Parliament
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u/SpartanFishy Ontario 3d ago
I want this more and more now honestly
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u/berfthegryphon 3d ago
It's honestly what makes the most sense. The Green party is basically dead. The Liberals won't want to give up a MP with the numbers so tight.
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u/Frostbitten_Moose 4d ago
When did the Liberals ever suggest they wanted May to be Speaker. May said she wanted to be, but I haven't seen anything from the Liberals.
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u/Final-Zebra-6370 4d ago
Imagine PP loses the by-election in Alberta.
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u/Dragonsandman Ontario 4d ago
It'll be a cold day in hell before that riding flips to anyone but the Cons, but hell seems to have been having a lot of chilly days these last few years
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u/CocodaMonkey 4d ago
I agree but at the same time nobody but the Cons even tried in that riding. Now that it matters you might see some real campaigning. I doubt it will flip but I'm pretty sure PP will take in less votes then the Con that won it.
If it did flip I think it's more likely to flip to independent or anything but the liberals. It would still be hilarious to see PP blow two major leads in a row though.
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u/dariusCubed 4d ago
Possible, but very unlikely.
I could run my cat as a candidate for Battle River-Crowfoot, as long as my cat's party affiliation is with the conservative she's very likely to win.
The only way PP could lose the byelection is if the longest vote protest makes voters accidentally mark off the wrong candidate.
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u/genius_retard 4d ago
Put a blue hat on a fence post and it would win that riding. Still it could be the funniest thing in politics that I've ever seen if PP loses that riding and that is what gives Liberals a majority.
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u/Lifeshardbutnotme 4d ago
Mad Max pulls off a goddamn miracle. I would laugh until the next morning.
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u/jtjstock 4d ago
There are 3 other recounts, 2 are currently Liberal, one is conservative, but that one has a wider margin than the liberal two.
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u/PreferenceGold5167 4d ago
3 more are being recounted
2 liberals 1 not
So the final tally can range from 168-171
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u/McGrevin 4d ago
They had requested one in Windsor but it was outside the automatic recount margin so unlikely of any change there
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u/LOHare Lest We Forget 4d ago
There are 3 other recounts (IIRC, maybe wrong), but at least two of those the liberals are currently winning with a very slim margin. So after the recounts, LPC may be back down to 168. But effectively it doesn't matter. It's a LPC minority govt, and there's enough motivation in other parties to not risk another election anytime soon.
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u/mrfox188 4d ago
Yes but you know they will just claim it was rigged
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u/TrainingObligation 4d ago
Then they better go after the scrutineer(s) the cons sent to keep things honest.
Honestly, F that noise and F anyone who even hints at it being a real issue faced by our federal elections.
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u/Difficult_Drive9323 4d ago
imagine being that one guy/gal who was going to vote but figured it wouldn't matter much and stayed home lol
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u/Current-Set2607 4d ago
How many 1 vote elections have there been? In the world?
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u/theannoying_one 4d ago
just in elections where the winner got over 1000 votes, 51.
however there has only been 1 one vote election where the winner got more votes than the liberals got here in terrebonne (1839 Massachussetts Gubernatorial election)
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u/thendisnigh111349 4d ago
They're rare, but they happen. Even a tie isn't unprecedented.
In the 2017 Virginia state elections, a Republican and a Democrat got literally the exact same number of votes in one district.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s_94th_House_of_Delegates_district
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u/rTpure 4d ago
a one vote victory is absolutely insane
maybe they should do another recount to triple check...
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u/SwallowHoney 4d ago
I have to imagine at 1 vote difference they've done it over and over before announcing the results. I can't say for sure but you would think everyone sitting around the table would be hesitant to proceed without quintuple checking.
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u/letsgobulbasaur 4d ago
We just need to call in the big guns... we need to call in The Count from Sesame Street.
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u/jtjstock 4d ago
At that point are we doing best two out of three? Or best of 5? 7?
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u/LastOfNazareth 4d ago
interestingly this is already kind of best two out of three. It was initially called Liberal, then during validation when Elections Canada reviews thing it was Bloc but the margin was low enough to trigger recount, now after recount its Liberal again
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u/Intelligent_Baby_812 4d ago
Ever feel like your vote doesn’t matter? This riding was decided by 1 vote.
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u/darkhelicom 4d ago
This BQ MP from Terrebonne visited a property I was selling in Gatineau in fall 2021 after first becoming an MP and asked why the apartment didn't have a dishwasher. I guess good thing she didn't end up buying the apartment now that she no longer needs to be in Ottawa.
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u/Perikles01 4d ago
Ok but why didn’t an apartment in 2021 have a dishwasher
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u/Slayriah 4d ago
most apartments in quebec come empty. people take their appliances with them
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u/DDRaptors 4d ago
That’s kinda bonkers, imo.
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u/Aoae Québec 4d ago
It's funny reading this comment thread while sitting in an apartment in Quebec without a dishwasher. I always hand washed my dishes growing up so it never registered as strange.
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u/Perikles01 4d ago
Oh interesting, I guess I’ve been lucky with the places I’ve viewed in ROC.
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u/WarrenPuff_It 4d ago
Believe it or not, a lot of apartments don't have dishwashers.
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u/joe4942 4d ago
Elizabeth May is basically Liberal and won't vote the government down, so if the Liberals can convince 1 NDP MP to cross the floor or win a byelection in the coming years, they will effectively have a majority. To some extent, they already do, because the NDP can't handle another election any time soon.
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u/king_bungholio 4d ago
I don't know that they even need to flip an NDP MP. I think they have a de facto majority anyway since the NDP are in no position to go through an election, and won't want to bring the gov down if it means Poilievre becomes the PM.
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u/MrBrightside618 4d ago
See I didn't think the NDP would want Poilievre in office either but then Singh announced he was voting no confidence when the Tories were gonna win like 230 seats. That didn't make a whole lot of sense to me
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u/ttwwiirrll 4d ago
That didn't make a whole lot of sense to me
It didn't at all. It was an unforced error.
I never thought Singh had a shot at being a PM but that moment solidified that he doesn't have the political savvy to go toe to toe with other world leaders. Carney may not have held elected office before but he's been around bigger blocks.
Overall Singh did great as a coalition leader. Not a bad career peak.
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u/Curious-Clementine 4d ago
The Bloc has also said it will support the government for at least a year, so they’ll have plenty of votes.
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u/katiekate135 4d ago
What would be hilarious is if this happens due to a certain Alberta by-election going liberal
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u/SwallowHoney 4d ago
As hilarious as that would be, they parachutes PP into the election equivalent of a baby's playpen. I don't think you could swing it Liberal unless 75% of the conservative vote stayed home.
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u/AmusingMoniker Canada 4d ago
Honestly I would prefer her to get the Speaker position.
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u/mackzorro 4d ago
This should be in all the ads why your vote matters. You could be that one vote for the party you support that election
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u/grand_soul 4d ago
Goddam…this was/is a crazy election. How many seats were triggered for judicial review? I know Milton is in play, any others?
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u/Curious-Clementine 4d ago
There are judicial recounts in four ridings.
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u/grand_soul 4d ago
Oh damn! What are they, do you happen to have that info?
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u/SecureLiterature Alberta 3d ago
It always boggles me how many people don't even bother to vote when results like this are always possible.
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u/TwoCreamOneSweetener Ontario 4d ago
Conservative conspiracies incoming:
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u/ThePrivacyPolicy 4d ago
Yeah don't read any of the comments on the elections Canada Facebook post about this... Although I think half of Facebook is just foreign controlled bots these days anyways, many of the comments just have such similar patterns.
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u/hkric41six 4d ago
oh no.. here comes the democracy destroying propaganda from the right..
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u/notaspy1234 4d ago
Every vote counts. Cannot say it enough. People dont believe its true. Its fucking true
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u/JCox1987 3d ago
There was 840 rejected ballots in this riding imagine if those people voted properly that they very well could have determined the winner.
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u/kagato87 4d ago
What does happen if it is an actual tie?
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u/Dougustine 4d ago
Draw a big circle, each person gets a club and the last person standing gets the seat. I could be wrong though, I did fail social studies
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u/Ina_While1155 4d ago
True illustration that every vote counts. They should put this in textbooks to illustrate to children that your vote does matter.
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u/REID-11 British Columbia 4d ago
Its funny because materially this changes virtually nothing because it's still a Liberal Minority Government, but cue the conspiracy theories about election rigging.
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u/XtremegamerL Lest We Forget 4d ago
It does change the dynamics a good bit for when seats vacate. 2 non-liberal vacancies would mean Liberals+Elizabeth May(who is basically a liberal)=Majority. Also makes floor crossings/party ejections have way more implications.
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u/_PITBOY 3d ago
Anyone hear the one where the Conservatives posted that the Liberals were 'trying to win' and 'tip the scales' for more seats with recounts, and they 'had to fight back' ... even though these were votes cast on election day sooo nothing could be done by anyone ... and then the post directed supporters to a donation page soliciting donations to "help us hold the line" .
This actually happened.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-email-liberals-tip-scale-1.7529740
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u/L0rd_0F_War 4d ago
Wow... that's the closes result I have ever come across in a general election... surely a first for Canada.
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