Thursday, February 02, 2006

Post election at the Ranch

The wife and I voted first thing in the morning on election day, on the way to work. She had received her voter registration card, I had not. As we moved only 6 months ago, all of our info was incorrect, and she called them to change it. She says she told them ot change my information as well as hers. For some reason mine did not get sorted out, but hers did, even though she says she changed them as the same time. A bit suspicious, eh?

Not to worry, I was able to vote and thereby cancel her vote. Which is the same reason she said she was voting.

I need not have bothered. In our riding, Vergreville-Wainwright, the CPC candidate won by a landslide. (For election results try here.)


CPC Candidate, Leon Benoit, won with 74.2% of the vote (37,854 votes). The next closest candidate was the NDP at 9.2% (4,727 votes)

It is interesting to look at the third and fourth place:

Liberal 7.6% (3,873)
Green 7.5% (3,822)

Is this a reflection of how far the Liberals have fallen in Alberta when they can just barely beat the Greens?

The Liberal president of this riding must be going some real soul searching.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

BTW, the new kitten is NDP orange. - LWG

MB said...

I've been suckered!

The cat goes back tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

CPC won by moving to the majority of Canadians values: they have become Liberals, only better. What I can't see is why people think the Federal Fiberals will survive? NDP is now the party of the left, and where does that leave the morally bankrupt Fiberals???