Canada: Election Results

Preliminary Results

National Party Party standing %   Popular vote %

Animal Alliance/Environment Voters	0	0.0		1,451	0.0
Bloc Québécois	4	1.3		889,788	6.0
CAP	0	0.0		2,030	0.0
CHP Canada	0	0.0		19,218	0.1
Communist	0	0.0		2,925	0.0
Conservative	167	54.2		5,832,401	39.6
FPNP	0	0.0		228	0.0
Green Party	1	0.3		576,221	3.9
Independent	0	0.0		63,340	0.4
Liberal	34	11.0		2,783,175	18.9
Libertarian	0	0.0		6,017	0.0
Marxist-Leninist	0	0.0		10,160	0.1
NDP-New Democratic Party	102	33.1		4,508,474	30.6
No Affiliation	0	0.0		9,391	0.1
PC Party	0	0.0		5,838	0.0
Pirate Party	0	0.0		3,198	0.0
Radical Marijuana	0	0.0		1,864	0.0
Rhinoceros	0	0.0		3,819	0.0
United Party	0	0.0		294	0.0
WBP	0	0.0		748	0.0

Total number of valid votes:

14,720,580

Polls reporting: 71,486/71,513	Voter turnout: 14,720,580 of 23,971,740 registered electors (61.4%)
The number of registered electors shown in this table does not include electors who registered on election day.

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Source: Elections Canada

Submissive Canadians Happy With Economic Conditions

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How would you rate the economic conditions in Canada today?

	Mar. 2010	Feb. 2010	Jan. 2010	Oct. 2009
Very Good / Good	54%	52%	48%	49%
Poor / Very Poor	41%	45%	45%	47%
Not sure	5%	3%	7%	4%

Source: Angus Reid Public Opinion
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,004 Canadian adults, conducted on Mar. 25 and Mar. 26, 2010. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

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Real Conservatism on the Rise in Canada Too

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Earlier this month, the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Ottawa played host to two consecutive conferences, a small one by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada followed by a big one by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. Both were well attended by current and former ministers, employees and strategists of the Harper government. Both drew energetic crowds of activists and ordinary people. Both gave free rein to an unabashed social conservatism that is rarely mentioned, and even less frequently championed, by even prominent fiscal conservatives in the big papers and magazines. And the mood at both gatherings was overwhelmingly optimistic, because the kind of conservatism that appeals to these organizations is demonstrably on the march in Ottawa and across Canada.

MacLean's

Half of Canadians Happy With Their Economy

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How would you rate the economic conditions in Canada today?

	Feb. 2010	Jan. 2010	Oct. 2009	Sept. 2009
Very Good / Good	52%	48%	49%	47%
Poor / Very Poor	45%	45%	47%	49%
Not sure	3%	7%	4%	4%

Source: Angus Reid Public Opinion
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,013 Canadian adults, conducted on Feb. 23 and Feb. 24, 2010. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

 

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Australian Sheep: Almost 2/3 Approve of Statist Kevin Rudd Government

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Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Kevin Rudd is doing his job as prime minister?

	Sept. 22	Aug. 23	Aug. 9
Satisfied	65%	61%	60%
Dissatisfied	24%	29%	28%
Uncommitted	11%	10%	12%

Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Malcolm Turnbull is doing his job as leader of the opposition?

	Sept. 22	Aug. 23	Aug. 9
Satisfied	33%	30%	26%
Dissatisfied	50%	56%	57%
Uncommitted	17%	14%	17%

Who do you think would make the better prime minister?

	Sept. 22	Aug. 23	Aug. 9
Kevin Rudd (ALP)	65%	66%	65%
Malcolm Turnbull (Lib.)	17%	19%	17%
Uncommitted	18%	15%	18%

Source: Newspoll / The Australian
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,150 Australian voters, conducted from Sept.18 to Sept. 20, 2009. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

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Children Don't Dream of Being Politicians

When you were a child, did you ever fantasize about holding any of these jobs? (Positive responses only)

CAN - Prime Minister of Canada	9%
USA - President of the United States	8%
BRI - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	5%

Source: Angus Reid Strategies
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,006 Canadian adults, 1,002 American adults, and 2,001 British adults, conducted from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30, 2009. Margins of error range from 2.2 per cent to 3.1 per cent.