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Winnipeg North recount
May 13, 2011 - 12:53pm
Elections Canada announces judicial recount will be held in Winnipeg North
Quote:
OTTAWA, Friday, May 13, 2011 - The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Marc Mayrand, announced today that there will be a judicial recount of the votes in the electoral district of Winnipeg North (Manitoba). Following validation of the results in the electoral district, the difference between the two leading candidates was 45 votes. An elector requested the recount.
The recount will be conducted by a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba and will begin on Monday, May 16, 2011. The results of the recount will be published on the Elections Canada Web site after the recount is completed.
Go Blaikie!
What is happening with the other ridings in which rcounts are pending?
Still nothing on the Elections Canada website with regard to results of the other recounts.
My undersytanding was that they were doing the Montmagny etc... recount this week and that it was supposed to wind up today. i don't know if all the recounts happen simultaneously.
Nipissing is starting the same time as Winnipeg North, & Etobicoke Centre starts May 18
Arthur, you wouldn't happen to be the author of the complaint, did you?
@edmundoconnor:
No, it wasn't me. I actually thought there wouldn't be a recount. That was my opinio. I truly have no idea at all how this has come about.
When the final count coming out of election night turned out to be 45 votes, instead of the 117 it had been previously reported, it was somewhat inevitable that there would be a recount (even if is slightly outside of the margin for a mandatory judicial recount). With only 138 rejected ballots, it is unlikely that there will be enough votes to overturn the result, but it isn't surprising that an elector would request a recount and that Elections Canada would grant one.
I don't expect a different result either. It is a shame, once more Winnipeg North has faux populist Corporatist elected to the House, who belongs to a party that works against the very interests of the very same people who elected this guy.
Its g-d sad!
in the Electoral District of Winnipeg North
[SPOILER ALERT: Lamoureux defetaed Blaikie by 44 votes]
Ah, nuts.
So what's happening in Nippissing and Etobicoke Centre?
You said it Jeff! That Lamoureux is a real wesal. One more electon and he gets a MPs pension to go with his MLA's pension. The guy has never had a real job. Its disgusting.
I think Lamoureux should be the next leader of the Liberal Party. They need to find a new identity and new issues that they can "own". Lamoureux is an ultra-social conservative who opposes a woman'[s right to choose and has ties to the so-called pro-life movement. Since Harper has told the pro-life crowd to get lost - this opens up a fantastic opportunity for the Liberals - they can exploit this vacuum by reinventing themselves (or really going back to their roots) as a party for socially conservative Catholics who have some vague notion of social justice being a good thing.
Go Kevin go!!
to "Crush The ConservaLibs"
but really, i prefer "LibraCons"
I've noticed in these recounts that typically the vote count doesn't change at all or it might change by a couple of votes out of tens of thousands cast. I think that the only time a recount actually has a chance of overturning anything is if the initial margin is in low single digits.
I think the rural ridings may have more issues, only because there may be fewer scrutineers available.
You know, this is amazing. I was reading a thread on Lamoureau's recount victory, and listening to the Lib gloating, you'd almost think they won the election. It's amazing. These guys lost, and they think nothing has changed. I read the Taber story. WTF? I have never seen anything like this in my life. This is unbelieveable.
Actually, beyond Lamoureux holding, the most interesting thing about Winnipeg North (and contrary to the by-election result) is that the Cons hit 26%, thus turning it into a technical 3-way marginal.
How on earth did *that* happen?!?
You know, I noticed that as well. And what is worse is the Tory candidate took forever to get her campaing underway. My answer is I don't know, but it makes me feel worried about the upcoming provincial election.
This is un-nerving.
The real problem in Manitoba isn't that the Tories might win the next provincial election, the problem is that most of the left and the labour movement has either atrophied, been utterly co-opted, or some mixture of the two under 12 years of NDP governance. Add to that that there seems to be very little real creative thinking and organizing beyond thinking about the next election, and we're in a situation where we are extremely vulnerable.
I think that Lamoureux wants to be the next Liberal leader. If he doesn't get it, Rebecca will get the riding next time.
About Manitoba, the NDP have been in power a long time.
Sounds like Manitoba has the same situation as here in Saskatchewan.
hey, they don't call it Saskitoba 4 nuthin
Or maybe that's Saskatoba?
Lamoureux will never be Libeal leader. That would be like having the batboy hit cleanup. The guy is a "legend in his own mind".
I know his last name is French, but is Lamoreux bilingual? If not, I don't see him becoming leader as all party leaders in Canada today are expected to be bilingual. This isn't like several decades ago when certain parties could get away with not having a bilingual leader. Even the Green Party is realizing it needs to have a leader who is bilingual and that Liz May has to work on her French.
The NDP won another seat (Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup) after a recount. NINE VOTES.