Canada Tilts To the Absurd

In my stepmother's native Canada, parliamentary elections yesterday handed the governing Liberals a fourth straight election victory - albeit this time without a majorty. The results overall appeared to mirror recent elections, although the New Democrats were the big winners in terms of votes. In fact, the expected Conservative win failed to materialize because the NDP got most of the protest vote and thereby denied the CPC a stronger showing in Ontario.

That being said, the voters also failed to produce a clear working majority for either side. A likely alliance of the Liberals and the NDP, before the inevitable recounts, stand at 154 - exactly half of the new Parliament. The Conservatives and the separatists also land at 154. Not an exactly happy occurrance.

Patrick Taylor has a couple good tables summarizing the results.