[Canadian Parliament] Elections

Day 2,563, 07:07 • Published in Canada Canada • by DMV3


November elections saw a small increase in turnout from October. With 272 votes cast in November compared to 267 cast in October that's a net gain to voter turnout of 1.8%.

This month's turnout caused some major gains for Coalition parties. IW saw their vote total increase from 42 to 46 yielding them 16.91% of the vote, increasing their seat total from 6 to 7. PFC saw their vote total increase from 37 to 49 bringing them 18.01% of the vote, this brought their seat total up 1 from 6 to 7. SUFFER saw their vote total creep up to 23 from 22 the month before. SUFFER brought in 8.46% of the vote and their seats remained unchange at 3. Coalition parties took 17 out of 40 Congressional seats giving them the largest plurality at 42.5% compared to 37.5% of seats last month.

MDP saw their vote total increase by 2 from 66 to 68 from October to November. The retained all 10 of their seats in Congress giving them 25% in Congress again this month.

CPF was the big loser in this election. They saw their vote total drop from 100 to 86. They brought in 31.62% of the vote and while still the largest constituency of any single party it is far below the 43.38% the Coalition received this election. CPF lost two seats in Parliament dropping from 15 to 13. This gives them 32.5% of the seats in Parliament compared to 37.5% last month.

One CPF party leader I talked to attributed the loss of votes to Dill being loud and obnoxious enough to scare voters away. Another CPF party leader suggested the loss of votes may have been CPF's apparent fixation on the Coalition instead of trying to campaign for voters to vote for their own party. Regardless of the reason for their decline one thing is apparent CPF has begun losing the faith of the voter base.