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Maybe the real people who were selling access were the voters of Ontario. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/31/opinion/ford-bribe-ontario-early-vote
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If Did Not Vote had been a party in the Ontario election, they would have won the election.
#OntarioElection #onpoli #ProportionalRepresentation
It was risky for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to call an early election — but it did pay off
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https://the-14.com/it-was-risky-for-ontario-premier-doug-ford-to-call-an-early-election-but-it-did-pay-off/
There are 124 provincial ridings in Ontario.
Here are 20 ridings where a combined Lib & NDP vote would have beaten the PCs.,
There's also another dozen where the addition of the Green votes to the Lib & NDP votes would have beaten the PC candidate .
#OntarioElection #cdnpoli
The majority of #ontario people did not vote for Ford. A biased electoral system puts our democracy at risk. #cbc The Current raises concern about loss of #democracy #usa
#resistance #canada
#ontarioelection NOT #democratic
ELECT LEAD TOTAL VOTES SHARE
PC 75 5 80 2,158,452 43%
NDP 25 2 27 931,796 18.6%
LIB 13 1 14 1,504,688 29.9%
PC 27,500 votes to win 1 seat
NDP 37,240
LIB. 115,384
Thoughts on the #election: Not much has changed. The highlights of the night are the Christine Hogarth lost her seat and the Liberals now have official party status.
Feels like a good (or would it be bad?) time to repost this.
https://theemptypress.com/why-our-only-hope-in-hell-is-proportional-representation/
My observations on the Ontario Election:
Once again, first-past-the-post delivers a government that is not representative of the overall will of the people. Specifically, 57% of voters are progressive, but 100% of power goes to the minority who is not.
A few weeks ago I started reading what Conservative voters were saying on social media to try to understand why they liked Ford. The only articulated reasons I heard were of the form “We can’t afford for the Liberals to get back in because last time they did [X]”. In all cases, the accusations of [X] were correct, but also the Ford government had done the same thing to a much larger extent.
A large number of comments were just saying how great Doug is, but when someone asked why they were non-responsive — probably bots.
Now I guess we get four more years of a government dedicated to taking all of our collectively-owned wealth and converting it to private wealth for their friends.
My cold comfort: almost always, Ontarians vote a different party Federally than they have in power Provincially. (I honestly think that’s why Ford called the election when he did). So perhaps Ford’s victory yesterday will help protect us from a PP majority in the upcoming Federal election.
Dear Ontario:
Most of you exercised your right not to bother voting yesterday.
That's fine.
Just know the rest of us no longer have any interest in hearing about how you are getting your booze delivered by Uber now or how your gramma died of thirst lying in her own shit & vomit in an Ontario LTC home.
Thank you. #OntarioElection #onpoli
Well done, Ontario, less than half of you bothered to vote. #OntarioElection
Cons - 80 seats NDP - 27 seats Libs - 14 seats
as per unofficial Elections Ontario results so far...
And that's where I'm going to call it a night.
With nearly all of the vote counted, Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives have finished with a third straight majority government.
The NDP retains official opposition status, despite finishing a distant third in the popular vote.
The Liberals regain official party status, but Bonnie Crombie fails to win a seat of her own.
@canadianglen FPTP definitely does have to go but according to unofficial results from Elections Ontario, the votes to the other parties combined only add up to half of what voters gave Ford:
Elections Ontario: Voter turnout : 45%
PC - 82 seats
NDP - 25 seats
Libs - 14 seats
Green - 2 seats
#OntarioElection
I'm going to save my major commentary about the #election until tomorrow. I'm so tired from traveling around my riding to push people to vote. How has your #electionday gone?
Overall, not a lot of seats changed hands in this election.
No, Marit Styles. Pollsters don't need to take another look. This result is broadly in line with the seat projection I tweeted yesterday (on my mstdn.ca account, which seems to be having issues tonight).
STATE OF THE PARTIES AT 23:00 EST:
The last of the delayed polls have just closed, and nearly all of the vote has now been counted.
The Liberals have made considerable gains in the popular vote, but that vote was spread too thinly to turn it into seats in the legislature.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles is addressing supporters at party headquarters in Toronto.
Her party retained official opposition status in the legislature, despite finishing a distant third in the popular vote. That's because they managed to concentrate their vote in a small number of areas, and better hold onto their seats as a result.
There’re too many parties splitting the vote in Ontario provincial elections, at least unless/until proportional representation becomes reality. Seems it, as expected, made it easy for a scandal-ridden & relatively unpopular Premier to win a historic 3rd majority government. #ONpoli #OntarioElection
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3lj5yj6fsy22n
Really, you just expect miserable, worst outcomes in elections in this era, don't you? Huge tracts of people voting to entrench the worst timeline against their own community's best interests, but you still keep hoping for a positive surprise some day.
Oh well, not today. Keep your head down and chisel away at the supports under the oligarchy.
Ontario votes Ford in for third time, and gives a populist conservative a majority government as people go without access to healthcare, disability support, housing and basic friggin necessities.
I’m disappointed in my fellow citizens. The rich and privileged few just voted to leave the rest of us by the wayside.
They will never care until it happens to them, and by then it’ll be too late.
#canpoli #onelection #ontarioelection #dougford #ford #disability #housing #healthcare #socialjustice
Fun fact: Vincent Ke had misrepresented/lied about being an engineer when he got elected.
I filed a complaint to the Professional Engineers Ontario association. I ended up quoted in the newspaper for doing so.
My former MPP Vincent Ke in Don Valley North lost the election (he had been kicked out of the Conservative Party) and the PC lost the seat to the liberals
A small win that I will take
Pues nada, otra legislatura con el cabestro este, y ya van tres... Qué disparate.
I've seen enough. The result of the #Ontario election will be a PC MAJORITY GOVERNMENT.
Just voted. I think it took me less than 2 minutes, even without my voter card. #OntarioElection
My wife and I always took our kids with us when we voted — federal, provincial, and municipal elections. We wanted them to see us doing it and understand the importance. This is the first provincial election where all of our family members were eligible to vote, and everyone did! One of our sons voted early, while another voted by mail. The rest of us voted first thing this morning. A voter-suppressing winter election didn't stop us! I'm proud of that. 😀
Vote!
Well. I just went and voted in the Ontario election. It was 6 houses away and took me 10mins. I had no excuses not to.
Get in losers, we're going voting!
Easy way for Ontarians to stop losing – let's replace this government.
Vote strategically, and avoid splitting the vote on the left/centre. Choose the most popular non-con in your riding.
It may have been ten minutes since you last heard someone encourage you to vote in #Ontario, so I'll pop in here and say I hope you make time to go vote today if you haven't already!
Yay! Last vestiges of #democracy for the win!
Jost got back from voting in the Ontario provincial election. I can't help but feel that a majority of voters who are mobile and have the time to vote won't bother.
And they will be the ones griping the loudest over four more years. #onpoli #ontarioElection