40th Canadian Parliament

[randomness]

Conservative Party of Canada: 143 seats (+19 from 2006, 155 needed for majority)
Liberal Party: 76 (-27)
Bloc Québécois: 50 (-1)
New Democratic Party: 37 (+8)
Independents: 2

There's a lot of post-game analysis. (Those are just the two I've read so far.)

I find the contrasts and similarities in political campaigning intriguing. It's not that often we have two neighboring countries having simultaneous campaigns that we can compare.

This graphic from Wikipedia lists seats by riding coded by party:

Comments

[ceo]

I was confused by that graphic until I saw that the Conservatives were blue and the Liberals were red.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Hah! :)

[choirsoftheeye.livejournal.com]

How do their conservative/liberal parties compare with American conceptions of Left and Right?

[jimmystagger.livejournal.com]

Our conservatives would call their conservatives "communists." :)

Having a Tory government didn't stop Pat Buchanan from referring to their nation as "Soviet Canuckistan" on his TV show on MSNBC.

The Canadian concepts, to the best of my knowledge, are not unlike the British concepts (just swap out "Labour" for "Liberal").

The NDP really split the Liberals' votes in Atlantic Canada but even without the NDP the Liberals wouldn't have won. Stephane Dion needs to go. Harper only called this election because he thought he could win a straight Tory majority, so I guess the fact that they didn't is a win for the left.

Oh, and the Bloc can suck it. You're not a country, never gonna be a country, own up and play ball.