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Election Information
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Ways to vote
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Vote on election day (April 28)
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- uses the special ballot process
Special Ballots
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Lurking American here. Curious who you think will win in your gut? I understand we won’t really know until results are counted. A couple of stories covered by American media (one definitely liberal leaning) I’ve read and listened to seems to think because of the odiousness of our president, liberals may take it? Do you think that’s likely?
Honestly hard to tell, but I’d say a conservative minority is the most likely outcome.
My riding has voted NDP every time for as long as it has existed, but I expect it to flip conservative because the liberals will split the vote enough thanks to Carney’s “popularity” despite their candidate here having zero chance (seriously, PPC got more votes than the liberals did last election).
Curious who you think will win in your gut?
I’m feeling it’s Carney but I don’t feel confident at all. Might be wishful thinking. Polling hasn’t been reliable enough for me to be at peace.
to think because of the odiousness of our president, liberals may take it? Do you think that’s likely?
Trump being disgusting seems to have nudged some in favor of Liberals, but it’s also not the major reason imho. Their strategy of getting rid of Trudeau and the consumer carbon pricing worked, because Conservatives spent the last 5 years yammering non-stop about these two things as their promise. They were literally calling it a “carbon tax election”. Scrambling to find a new platform, they started to pivot into generic Conservative bullshit like “Canada First”, and that’s where they ended up likening themselves to Trump even more.
Pretty much the only thing Conservatives have going for them now is chanting that Liberals have been in power for too long and “we need change”. But their platform is without ax-the-tax and fuck-trudeau was reduced to the same basic shit as ever: tough on crime, cheap gas, and transphobia.
Congrats! Looks like CBC is projecting a liberal win!
If enough people saw Trump’s rant this morning, Carney and Libs get a majority. If they didn’t, it could be tight.
Carney. Liberal Majority.
Go Bruce Fanjoy! Stop that demagogue!
the article I read about him said that he left his job to raise his children fulltime while his wife worked. then goes on to say his children are well into their post-secodary degrees so he’s been renovating his house and talking everyone’s ear off about how great it is because of its greenness. One of the things he’d like to do as MP is help other people renovate their houses the same way he did.
Losing to Carney, a serious member of the financial class is one thing. But losing to full time parent of 2 adults, who loves eco-friendly home renos is another thing. It’s interesting that neither men has held a conventional job in 20 years. Not to mention the dynamics (esp gender) of one of them having spent the time being a homemaker and the other being a brainwrecker.
Demagogue in a Milhouse suit who let the internet bully him out of wearing glasses. Pathetic.
Looks like everything is in and it ended up with Liberals 169 seats, three short of a majority.
Although jeez, I can’t imagine there isn’t a recount in the riding where the difference was literally 12 votes out of 21,000. Crazy close.
Either way, I’m guessing the 7 NDP and 1 Green basically become de facto Liberals to create a pseudo majority since at least that way they’ll have some influence and it wouldn’t be in their best interest to topple the government and go through all this again.
Here’s the two main poll aggregator’s per-riding projections for all of those considering voting strategically:
- 338Canada. Use the French version if the main one is down. The site is under attack
- Eric Grenier (CBC Poll Tracker)
No pollster will be able to predict a ridding, there is just not enough information collected per ridding.
True. That’s why I’m looking at aggregators, as well as pollsters. Just in case the one I look at is way off for some reason.
Bringing your voter information card with a driver’s license or any other Canadian Gov’t issued card with photo, name and address is like having a FastPass for voting.
If you don’t know who to vote for, I recommend using vote compass to see how closely you align to the parties.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
I got the same result for the same reason.
I think the parties not releasing their platform until so late makes it incorrect.
It’s a good idea, but not good this election.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
They’ve introduced a feature at the end where you can choose to weight your answers, so the social issues you don’t really care about can be weighted
0and get a more accurate result.Ain’t got time for that. I did a few questions and it did change the result dramatically.
There’s a “weight your results” button that let’s you indicate how much you care about each question.
Isn’t the right trying to tell people what race and genders are valid…
Yes. I feel like polls such as Vote Compass are hampered by the fact that they take right wing policies at face value rather than what they actually do once in power.
Very much agreed
Just got this beautiful flyer hand delivered by the CPC to help me vote against the CPC:
And, if you truly don’t know for who to vote: cancel your vote. Go and check every single boxes of your ballot!
There’s no reason why you shouldn’t go and vote, even if you want to vote for no one!
Everyone I’ve known who has done has always been an incredibly low information voter. It isn’t that hard to make a choice. Expecting to have a federal party that matches 100 percent of your beliefs is not realistic and presenting it as an option is just used to suppress votes.
It would be easier if we had ranked choice voting. My mom wants to vote green but she feels like her vote is worthless (I’m not sure how the cons are her 2nd choice given her environmental concerns but i guess no one is immune to propaganda).
The Green Party has had it’s fair share of unscientific policies in the past so I wouldn’t be that surprised.
I’ve worked elections before (but currently not working this one), it’s amazing how few spoiled ballots there were.
Just in case anyone is using 338 for info:
- the higher voter turnout so far indicates this type of model will be less accurate this election.
- the riding numbers are from provincial polling, there is no per riding polling incorporated. With increased turnout, I expect these to be less accurate.
- the model works by rating pollsters based on how well the predict past elections. That’s why increased turnout means things may swing from their forecast.
All that adds up to the potential for huge swings in votes, swings that can go either direction.
Things to watch for:
- Gen Z men’s rightward swing. Expect high turnout from this group for the Conservatives. They consume a lot of right wing media and have been struggling with tough economic conditions, so will be motivated.
- Boomer influence is waning — this is the first election they are not the largest demographic.
- Gen X are actually wealthier than boomers and are the only demographic that en masse had better economic outlooks since COVID. I don’t know if they’re going to stay the coarse with LPC or vote CPC for the tax cuts, traditionally more income swings right, especially with how Pollievre wants to change housing taxes
- Older women and Quebec are very anti-Pollievre, this might end up with a suppressed vote or a very strong vote LPC.
- Rural areas I think will swing more conservative than ever, and this might be where the forecasts swing. E.g. rural Ontario may not be as safe as thought.
TLDR be prepared for surprises today.
I’m gen-x, my kids are Z. We all voted ABC.
Yep. BC. Habitual NDP voter, first time liberal voter.
The problem with the Conservative vote is it’s very concentrated in provinces with less seats. Winning AB/SK/MB won’t matter if you lose enough seats in BC/ON/PQ, mostly ON.
I think they might pick up seats in areas like Ontario and Manitoba, even areas like Hamilton.
That’s my concern anyway.
They did much better in ON that many thought, but they lost and Pierre lost his seat. So that’s great news.
I’m personally pretty happy with the outcome overall
But yeah exactly what I was thinking would happen did.
Poll aggregators undercounted less traditional voters but did count things like older conservatives moving liberal.
I don’t think this is a “shy conservative” phenomenon, which CBC and polling companies are talking about that a lot today. it’s really a failure in models to adapt to non baseline conditions, and this was sort of a black swan election.
That became clear to me when advanced turnout was so high.
I think the future for models should be to incorporate more “causal” style models, and for pollsters to break their traditional voter demographics up more. Right now it’s not granular enough.
When my special ballot hadn’t shown up the local election office said that there is still a process to vote in person, you have to sign a statement saying you have not voted yet. It showed up the next day but according to them there is a process but they don’t mention it unless it’s really needed. It was last Thursday so I was a bit worried I wouldn’t be able to vote at all.
Good information.
Given we live in a FPTP country, this is a worthwhile thing to consider as well: https://smartvoting.ca/ridings/federal-2025
You can look up your riding to see vote projections; you ultimately vote the system you have.
There’s also 338Canada’s per-riding projection. There’s the one by Eric Grenier too (CBC Poll Tracker).
One should check more than one to ensure there’s no funny business going on.
No harm to you at all, but I’m avoiding that site completely and advising everyone I work with and care about to stick with one of the other poll prediction sites like 338 if they have to use anything (scroll down for tl;dr).
Originally called polarispolls, smartvoting is run out of Polaris Entertainment.
When the smartvoting site was launched during the last Ontario election and started showing up on facebook/twitter/lemmy/etc, they didn’t include specific information about their (proprietary) methodology, but they’ve put together a pdf for the federal launch. If anyone cares to read it, it’s here.
Polaris Entertainment is made up of 3 people, afaict, and they’re all podcast influencers. The youtube link here is a joint podcast they did 5 months ago. In it, the guy who claims he made the smartvoting website suggests twice just in this one interview that the NDP should bow out federally. Pretty standard Hot Take these days so not particularly sus, except that it’s coming from a guy who made a vote recommendation website.
The person running the site used the royal WE a tonne when smartvoting was just one person during the Ontario election, and he now claims to have a “bipartisan data board.” The site also now has someone they’re naming as a general manager of the site, and she’s said the NDP is running a harassment campaign against them, which is affecting everyone’s mental health. Now, the same guy who claims he made the site says the reason he won’t name any of the people on his new board and won’t share any of his data is because of the NDP.
tl;dr: At best, smartvoting is a do-gooder project by someone trying to save us all from ourselves. With project 2025 rushing down the pipe and the mass media influence of the rightwing, I totally get it. People with fab intentions don’t always come up smelling like roses, and I never require Purity from my left allies. But at worst, smartvoting could be another disinfo campaign, claiming to be anti-conservative, openly interfering with our elections to amplify the appearance of division between Canadians on the left, when we’re already pretty cool with strategic voting and have been doing it when necessary for decades.
[disclaimer: this is the second comment I’ve left about being suspicious of this site since I made my lemmy account.]
Gen Z are in their phones too much, they just don’t get off the couch and vote, like Gen X or even boomers.
May I ask on what type of electronic device and what location you chose to write your comment?
My daughter is 20 and in her second year of university. She came home to vote in the provincial election and she just voted in the federal election. If you raise your kids right and teach them how important voting is they will vote. She’s very politically engaged.
Complete interprovincial trade by July?
And for those that are unaware, that isn’t a cigarette.
The NDP had 9 years to press the promise of PR and did nothing. Fuck em. I hope they lose party status.
PR is a non-starter for the liberals, their party would completely disappear if they passed it. That’s why they sabotaged/killed it even though they promised last time.
The NDP couldn’t push it through even if they wanted, all it would have done is forced an election into the Conservatives.
I’m not sold on PP/PR, and I understand RCV to help liberals more, but I disagree that LPC would do poorly under PP.
The Liberals only benefit from various PR type options if we assume that new parties wouldn’t form and only the existing parties are competing.
That wouldn’t be the case.
Doesn’t matter in the end though. I think Liberals have a large enough conservative (status quo) voterbase among WASPy city population that they would always be an at least German SDP level party, forming coalition governments left and right.
And if not, well, they’ve been the “default party of Canada” for long enough.
This. PR is a death knell for the bigger parties and they’ll fight it. Maybe. Mayyyybe that can be pushed for RCV. But I think Mr Singh didn’t have the poker hand for that and needed to play the dental framework instead. Continuing on that would have been great, but he overplayed his hand as it was and set Justin on the election course.
This time, if Mark wins the big bag and runs majority, we’ll see lots of minor improvements but nothing glamorous: his people will keep any big gains in the war chest and/or spent immediately on an independent euro-connected peacekeeper force.
We’re gonna see real estate shenanigans, though, same as cons, with bungalow boondoggles and sprawl for quick cheap housing to satisfy the numbers, and it’ll be a long time before we can claw ourselves farther away from the same Muni economic brink that Detroit fell over with its unsustainable bungalow sprawl. But keep in mind almost no one has a good plan to get good, dense, walkable mixed-use tower housing linked to trains because that’s a project with excellent returns at a pace too slow for the protestors. If Mark does anything foundational for that it’ll be noise amid the effort to placate the short-thinkers and stay in power for a better term next time.
We’re gonna see a lot of younger voters looking for the whizbang change the cons offer, not understanding the whole story, the motivations, and the history of every other time we got onboard there. Harper.
But if we can get steady gains, if we can improve ancillary healthcare coverage like the last term, if we can start the ground work for RCV which is more appealing to the incumbent giants, then we could see that in 5 years as a hard promise.
In those 5 years we need to teach kids what “the whole truth” looked like under Mr Harper and see whether they like the side of the box with the nutrient value - mmm, riboflavin - as much as the front of the box with the splashy graphics the offer of the free prize inside.
It was a mistake (in obvious retrospect) to not settle for RCV. Singh made his weekend speech, “vote strategically to not split for CPC win”, which never has to be said under RCV. You can instead double down on why you should be first or 2nd choice, and voter only needs to agree to help you/party. You don’t get strategic voting instructions from mainstream media. You have to rely on actively searched for leaked polling data that may or may not be true.
That’s what I meant in long form. If they would have held the Libs to account, they could have got it. Instead they backed themselves into a corner and us into a two-party system. Fuck them in the 🐐 🍑 but this is what they get for not being the NDP Canadians needed.
Did they accomplish something? Sure, but not what we most need to avoid the pitfalls of a two-party ticket in the future. And the future is here.
