Unsurprisingly, the Liberals took home a nice majority in the election and the electoral reform measure for MMP failed. I'm more ticked about the latter than the former, but c'est la vie.
I was surprised that the MMP only got 38%, I was hoping for at least closer to 50%. What it tells me is that either the public is afraid of change or is sufficiently happy with the current system, hard to say which is stronger. Voter turnout was around 53% which is rather pathetic but not surprising; for some reason people can be bothered to vote more in a federal election but not in a provincial even though their say has more weight in the smaller numbers of the latter and the laws and rulings from the provincial legislature have far more effect on their day to day lives. Weird.
John Tory didn't even win his seat. Had he won it I might have suspected he would get another chance in 2011 (yay fixed election dates) but now I figure he is a dead man walking in terms of PC leader. More leadership conventions, sigh.
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