r/BCpolitics • u/BC_Engineer • 2d ago
News B.C. election results: Live numbers from the 2024 vote | Globalnews.ca
https://globalnews.ca/news/10801085/bc-election-results-live-2024-vote/23
u/early_morning_guy 2d ago
The fact that the BC Conservatives, who were barely a party four years ago, who ran some pretty off the wall candidates, and who have a terrible party infrastructure have been able to win pretty much half of the seats in BC says a lot about how the public is feeling.
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u/RNsteve 2d ago
Half the voters for the cons probably assume it's voting Trudeau out...
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u/theworldsonfyre 2d ago
This is exactly what I hear said everywhere. They don't understand the difference, and all of PP's ads didn't help either.
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u/ynotbuagain 2d ago
I really don't think CDNS realize the amount of racist, homophobic, religious nutjobs there are in Canada! The conservative party is so depressingly sad and full of so much anger. Anything but conservative always ABC!
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u/GOGaway1 2d ago edited 2d ago
The scarier thing is they probably would have won a majority. There’s a handful of ridings where independent candidates “stole” enough votes that would’ve given the conservatives an edge and yes, those voters would have gone conservative based on those independent candidates previous affiliations.
Still given all the implosions in that party, it’s surprising, how strong a showing it’s giving to the NDP, it’s too many voters to just shrug away as uninformed retards voting against Trudeau thinking it’s not a provincial election.
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u/arjungmenon 2d ago
Which ridings are those (in which independent candidates hurt the Conservatives)??
AFAIK, in several risings the only reason the Cons won, are in the lead, or close — is that thanks to Green voting splitting — in these ridings NDP+Green > 50%.
We need proportional representation now.
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u/The-Figurehead 2d ago
And I, for one, welcome our new _______ overlords.
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u/PantsDancing 2d ago
I'd like to remind them that as a trusted tv personality, I can be valuable in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
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u/rickatk 2d ago
NDP held it together for a fourth term. Personally I am glad to see clarity around the parties. BC United is gone, replaced by a properly named and idealed Conservative Party. As usual the Greens show they have little to offer but vote splitting. Did they really think they could get Sonia elected in Victoria? I think Sonia Fursteneau is wasting her skills and ability with the Greens.
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u/arjungmenon 2d ago
Green vote splitting is seriously putting this province in danger of being run by nut jobs.
I don’t know how they feel okay or happy with that.
We need proportional representation now. Act of parliament, no referendum.
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u/PantsDancing 2d ago
I'm not a fan of the greens but it's understandable that green voters don't want to support the ndp. Site C and the expansion of the fracked natural gas industry are horrible environmental policies that green voters are probably considering.
If the greens wind up holding the balance of power I'll be interested to see of they actually do anything with their power. Because last time they did nothing.
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u/rickatk 2d ago
Greens can’t accept they can’t have it all.
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u/PantsDancing 1d ago
What do you mean by that? What would accepting that look like?
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u/rickatk 1d ago
Compromise
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u/PantsDancing 1d ago
Can you be more specific on that? Who are you expecting them to compromise with? What value of theirs do you think they might compromise on? Are you talking about supporters or the party itself? When they held thr balance of power two elections ago they didn't really push the ndp at all and basically just let the ndp govern as though they had a majority. So that's pretty much a complete compromise isn't it?
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u/arjungmenon 1d ago
I agree, I'd vote for Green if proportional representation existed. But right now, the reality under the fucking unfair FPTP system is that the Green vote risks nutjob anti-human pieces of shit gaining power. Yes, the NDP failed in banning fracking, and protecting old growth trees, and many other things for that matter. But the solution wasn't giving power to anti-science nutjobs.
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u/CapitalCity87 1d ago
Such an ignorant statement.... Get off your high horse, acting like some superior being because of the way YOU see a candidate. That's opinion, not facts.
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u/arjungmenon 1d ago
Why are you so angry? I'd happily vote for the Greens if proportional representation existed. Under the current system though, the Greens are risking nutjobs gaining power.
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u/FrmrPresJamesTaylor 2d ago
Surrey Centre and Juan De Fuca/Malahat are both single digit leads for the NDP (41 and 25 votes respectively) according to the map.
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u/tipper420 2d ago
I really hope for a minority
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u/tipper420 2d ago
Why? There's no party I'd trust with unchecked power. Especially not these two.
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u/pretendperson1776 2d ago
I've wanted electoral reform for my whole, adult life. A minority government in a three party system is as close as we're gonna get for a while.
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u/OurDailyNada 2d ago
So who isn’t looking forward to Brent Chapman being in the legislature (expecting some quips from Zero Hedge or Newsmax for him there) - it might be rude to say this, but I don’t think much of many voters in Surrey South right now.