2025 Election Thread

[robkelk]

Starting with the one in Ontario. CBC News ticker

As of the first morning:

• Conservatives (who called the election 18 months early): "Protect Ontario", negotiate with the USA in a position of strength. No mention of health care.
  
• Liberals: They say the province didn't need an early election, it needs doctors. They also want to fight the perception that young people need to leave Ontario in order to succeed.
  
• NDP: “Time and time again, Doug Ford has shown he can’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag.” They're making health care a major platform plank.
  
• Greens: “We should be here at Queen’s Park working across party lines to show Donald Trump strength through unity. Instead Doug Ford has called an election, abandoning the people of Ontario when they need him the most” They're also campaigning on housing and health care.
  

[robkelk]

Well, that's happened.

The Conservatives -- the party that presented its platform last (and was the only one that didn't cost-out their platform) -- kept its majority. A big majority -- three seats away from a two-thirds majority -- but they actually lost a seat.

The Liberals took a half-dozen seats from the NDP and Conservatives, but despite placing second in the popular vote, ended up third in the Legislative Assembly.

Status quo for the Greens. Somebody got elected as an independent.

There are a few ridings that are legally required to recount because the margins are so close, but they won't affect the overall outcome.

So... no change, essentially.

[robkelk]

This one's a party leadership election that has ramifications for the entire continent... and more.

Congratulations to Mark Carney for being elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (with over 85% of the votes cast on the first ballot), and thus Prime-Minister-apparent of Canada.