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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

PPS. Checked one last time.
99.7% of polls are in.
57.37% turnout.
#bcNDP: 46 ridings 908,175 votes 44.59%
#CPBC: 45 ridings 887,397 votes 43.57%
#bcgreens: 2 ridings 166,661 votes 8.18%

Just 1 seat and 1.02% of the vote separates the two. But unless there is a reversal in a recount, it looks like the NDP have just held onto power. They will need to come to an agreement with the Green Party in order to govern long term like they did in 2017.

Night all!

#bcpoli #bcelxn2024

martin_fff

@chris shows the power of lies on FB ...

Rainer 🇵🇸

@chris as fucked up as it is that the clown party won so many seats, and as much as I resent my fellow Fraser Valley voters for being...you know...so willing to vote for hateful climate deniers, a minority government where the environmentalists control all of the power seems like not the worst thing ever?

Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

@chris Jesus. Well, this sure isn’t going to be boring! I’m glad BC was spared the worst outcome.

Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

@chris one question: how much of that result is extreme polarisation from one riding to the next (ie most individual ridings were won decisively) and how much of it is ridings that were themselves very close and could have gone either way? Either way you’re in for some rough waters ahead but the type of issue will be different!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@Rainer agreed

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@IPEdmonton I think it was about 10 ridings that were quite close of 93. There is definitely a big urban/rural split (except Vancouver Island perhaps) but the biggest factor was the federal conservative talking points I think. Complete rejection of reason by half the people who voted and half the electorate just didn’t vote at all. That part makes me think there is a lot of work to do to get people believing there is good to vote for

Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

@chris thanks for the answer. Good luck with it all!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@IPEdmonton I think it is not unique to BC either. This is the general western zeitgeist. People are fed up, scared, and irrational. I am glad the most likely outcome is a minority coalition with the Greens. But this is really showing that there are deep problems that people are really upset about and all governments need to take it seriously.

Next up, New Brunswick tomorrow!!

Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

@chris so far, Nova Scotia’s conservatives have remained cast firmly in the old Tory, “business first and ignore the poor” model, so that’s something. However, even here the anti-houseless and anti-immigrant mouthing-off I’ve heard sometimes (not from conservative politicians but from conservative individuals) has worried me.

Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn:

@chris we should be heading into an election soon, which might teach us something. My guess: the rhetoric of the conservative leadership won’t change much, but if they end up accepting some unacceptable candidates into their ranks, that’s a sign for a much darker potential future.