As this strange week in Canada’s most populous metropolis (also most domestically hated and now “internationally” laughed-at) draws to a close, Mayor Rob Ford has at last broken his silence about the “Allegedly Seen Smoking Crack” video ... [read more]

The court yesterday found that fraud had been used in the May 2011 election in 6 ridings in an attempt to suppress the vote, as this article from the Globe & Mail sets out: [read more]

There were 35 independent candidates and 11 unaffiliated ones of which 7 were defacto independent.   Overall the independents did much better in this election than in past ones even if you ignore the impact of Bob Simpson and John van D ... [read more]

The Mulcair envelope issues [read more]

Since we have not yet counted the special ballots, here is the comparison to the 2009 preliminary vote so that we can have a more a accurate comparison between the two elections in the interim. [read more]

One of the quirks of our arcane electoral system is that some candidates do much better than others in getting votes but still lose the election. [read more]

This is the preliminary turnout which includes advance voting and the voting on May 14th, it is does not include special ballots like absentee ballots or early voting.  In 2009 there were 102,467 special ballots cast and in 2005 there w ... [read more]

There have been 21 federal by-elections since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister of Canada.* Of those 21, the Conservatives held 4 (Labrador, Durham, Calgary Centre and Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette.) Of those 4 by-elections 3 took pla ... [read more]

These results are comparing the vote before the absentee and other special ballots are considered in this election and past elections.   These ballots, which are likely to number between 1,000 and 2,000 in each of the ridings, will be c ... [read more]

Two of the independents running for re-election [read more]