Charlatan

This is just sour grapes. Look at how the vote went. The reality is that the Conservatives and the Liberals lost votes in the popular totals while the Bloc, Greens and NDP all gained in the popular totals. This shows a distint shift to the LEFT rather to the right as the Conservatives would have needed to secure even a Minority.

The Conservatives have to start acting like a National Party if they want to control the parliament. With a leader like Harper, who advocated the "firewall" around Alberta and in the last days of the election showed his true colours by suggesting that "Alberta will now be in charge", it doesn't surprise me that Canadians outside of Alberta chose another option.

Interestingly, there was a high percentage of votes for Liberal and NDP candidates in the west... just no seats. I don't hear you getting upset for those voters who don't get representation in the House of Commons.

Also interesting is that the Conservatives made inroads into Ontario winning 24 seat and 31.5% of the popular vote. A year ago this was unthinkable.

I'm not sure what the complaint is... This is the first election of a united right. They made more gains (seat wise) than they have in the last few elections.

I think you really need to look at Canadian voting trends... traditional voting trends have been Centre Left... The American style conservatism that Harper was espousing just doesn't appeal to a large number of Canadians... we are proud of our traditions of progressive social politics.

As I've said elsewhere, only proportional representation (of some form or another) will solve this issue of under representation from the disconnect between popular vote and the number of seats held.

Quebec:
PARTY............SEATS.......# of Votes...........% of pop vote
Bloc Québécois........54............1,672,184...........48.8
Conservative.............0..............300,499..............8.8
Green Party...............0..............108,650..............3.2
Liberal.....................21............1,159,879.............33.9
N.D.P.........................0..............158,838................4.6

Ontario:
PARTY............SEATS.......# of Votes...........% of pop vote
Conservative..........24.............1,592,724..........31.5
Green Party..............0................226,014............4.5
Liberal....................75.............2,260,172...........44.7
N.D.P........................7................915,310...........18.1

Manitoba
PARTY............SEATS.......# of Votes...........% of pop vote
Conservative...........7................185,022................39.1
Green Party.............0..................12,894................2.7
Liberal.....................3................156,970................33.2
N.D.P.......................4................110,901................23.5

Saskatchewan
PARTY............SEATS.......# of Votes...........% of pop vote
Conservative........13................178,180................41.8
Green Party............0..................11,522................2.7
Liberal....................1................115,671................27.2
N.D.P......................0...................99,479................23.4

Alberta
PARTY............SEATS.......# of Votes...........% of pop vote
Conservative.........26................783,379................61.6
Green Party.............0..................78,095................6.2
Liberal.....................2................279,219................22.0
N.D.P.......................0................121,249................9.5

BC
PARTY............SEATS.......# of Votes...........% of pop vote
Conservative......22................625,071................36.2
Green Party..........0................109,538................6.4
Liberal..................8................492,865................28.6
N.D.P....................5................457,815................26.6

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