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New Foundland and Labrador by elections
November 25, 2014 - 10:43am
Today! I see they have garnered a lot of attention on Rabble!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/voters-head-to-the-p...
Humber East
FLYNN, Stelman Liberal Party
WARE, Martin New Democratic Party
WELLS, Lary Progressive Conservative Party (Lary? The P.Cs are even cutting back on 'R's)
by election caused by retirement of outgoing P.C Premier Tom Marshall
1.Stelman Flynn, President Hospitality New Foundland and Labrador
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/stelman-flynn-wins-l...
http://stelmanflynn.ca/
2.Martin Ware. Retired English Professor
http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/Local/2014-11-04/article-3928582/Mart...
https://www.facebook.com/Martin.Ware.HumberEast
3.Lary Wells, Tom Marshall Executive Assistant
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/lary-wells-to-repres...
http://larywells.com/
2011 General Election results
Progressive Conservative Tom Marshall3,494 78.25%
NDP Marc Best593 13.28%
Liberal Charles Murphy3788.47%
Trinity-Bay De Verde
CROCKER, Steve Liberal Party
JOHNSON, Ronald Progressive Conservative Party
RENDELL, Tolson New Democratic Party
By election caused by retirement of P.C Finance Minister Charlene Johnson
1.Steve Crocker, Liberal Leader Dwight Ball Executive Assistant (on leave)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/steve-crocker-is-lib...
https://www.facebook.com/SteveCrockerLib
2.Ronald Johnson, Retired Liquor Inspector, Retired Volunteer Fire Chief and Paramedic
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/charlene-johnson-s-f...
https://www.facebook.com/electronjohnson
3.Tolson Rendell, Heart's Content Town Councillor, Cable Station Custodian, Sheep Farmer
http://www.cbncompass.ca/News/Local/2014-11-24/article-3949850/Who-are-y...
https://www.facebook.com/Tolson.Rendell.TBDV
2011 General Election results
Progressive Conservative Charlene Johnson 2882 61.91%
Liberal Barry Snow 1114 23.93%
NDP Sheina Lerman 659 14.16%
Trinity-Bay De Verde 16/41 polls
Liberal 740
P.C 457
NDP 63
Humber East 11/35 polls
Liberal 581
P.C 438
NDP 89
Trinity-Bay De Verde 31/41 polls
Lib 2,023
P.C 1,036
NDP 157
Humber East 21/35 polls
Lib 1,088
P.C 790
NDP 170
Trinity-Bay De Verde 41/41
Liberal: 3,074
P.C: 1,363
NDP: 254
Humber East 31/35 polls
Liberal: 1,818
P.C:1,238
NDP: 276
Humber East 35/35 polls
Liberal: 2,263
P.C: 1,454
NDP: 315
Sorry to see that you've been alone in this thread, Adam T.
Here's an article this morning by David Cochrane on the Tories losing 2 more by-elections to the Liberals:
The Tories are governing on borrowed time
Excerpt:
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The Tories have now lost seven byelections in a row, a losing streak without precedent in this province.
Six of those losses came in seats held by two former premiers, two finance ministers, a house leader and a justice minister.
The Tories are a general election call away from losing the government.
Humber East provided the Tories with their biggest margin of victory in the 2011 election with 78 per cent of the vote. On Tuesday the Liberals blew them out of the water.
It was an even bigger electoral slaughter in Trinity Bay de Verde. The Liberal margin of victory of 1,700 votes exceeded their entire vote total in that district from the 2011 election.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cochrane-the-tories-...
* The NDP ran credible candidates in these two by-elections.
* In Humber East, Martin Ware garnered plenty of media attention on fracking, an issue for which the NL NDP is strongly identified.
* Unlike the recent Conception Bay South byelection, the problem of strategically voting Liberal to depose the PCs was not seen as necessary amongst the electorate.
Despite all of these factors, the NDP received 8% in Humber East and 5% in Trinity Bay de Verde. The party is currently irrelevant in large swaths of the province.
Yet leader Lorraine Michael sails serenely on, apparently oblivious to the stark reality her party faces heading into an election year. We hear nothing from her about why anyone should consider voting NDP, even though the House of Assembly is in session. MHA Gerry Rogers is proving to be a strong performer, but the NL NDP requires a strong vision from its leader. This, unfortunately, is not happening and party stalwarts are stepping away until the inevitable occurs - Lorraine is mortal after all and must eventually resign.
The frustrating part of this is that the Liberals have done nothing to deserve their victories. The party is made up of people who have nothing in common except to enjoy the perks of power. They wear red shirts and carry business cards stamped with the letter "L" - and the sharp divisions within caucus (since the Liberal MHAs largely despise one another) are smothered by party discipline.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014
From bad to worse for the NL PCs
A quick follow-up on yesterday's post on the two by-elections held last night in Newfoundland and Labrador. By-elections over the last three years have been rough for the governing Progressive Conservatives. These last two were catastrophic.
The Liberals won both of these ridings by very comfortable margins after benefiting from gigantic swings from both the NDP and the PCs to their party.
In Trinity-Bay de Verde, Liberal Steve Crocker took 65.5% of the vote, with the Tories dropping to 29.1% and the NDP to 5.4%.
In Humber East, Stelman Flynn of the Liberals took 56.1% of the vote, with the Tories plummeting to 36.1% and the NDP falling to 7.8%.
The swing that occurred in Humber East is absolutely extraordinary. The Liberals gained 47.6 points and the PCs fell 42.1 points, for a total swing of 89.7 points. This has to be one of the largest swings in Canadian electoral history, if not the largest. To recall, just three years ago the PCs took 78.2% of the vote here and the Liberals only 8.5%. The PC vote share fell by more than half. The Liberal share increased almost seven fold.
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More:
http://www.threehundredeight.com/2014/11/from-bad-to-worse-for-nl-pcs.html
If Lary Wells' name was "Larry Wells" he would have won. Either him or John Turmel.
Two big victories for the slightly smaller bad party over the slightly larger bad party.