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Jagmeet Singh resigning as NDP leader after losing his seat, his party routed (nationalpost.com)
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suffered a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat, his party reduced to a single-digit seat count.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On Jan 1st, the 3 major canada-wide parties were:

  • Liberal, headed by Justin Trudeau out of Papineau
  • Conservative headed by Pierre Poilievre out of Carleton
  • NDP headed by Jagmeet Singh out of Burnaby South

On May 1st the 3 major parties will be:

  • Liberal, headed by Mark Carney out of Nepean
  • Conservative headed by Pierre Poilievre(?) out of ?
  • NDP headed by ? out of ?
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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    NDP aren't even a major party anymore with 7 seats, sadly

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They're not an "official party", but they still got 6% of the vote. But, because of FPTP they only got 2% of the seats. Bloc Quebecois got 6.4% of the vote and 6.7% of the seats. There are still a lot of people out there who would want to vote NDP, but who voted Liberal to achieve "anybody but Conservative". The plan worked, but I think they'd like some electoral reform.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4jd39g8y1o

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I completely agree to be clear.

    But "major party" means something in election parlance, and unfortunately because of all the required strategic voting, it means NDP won't be at the next debate.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    all the required strategic voting,

    Much of BC was lost through three-way ties that the blues won by a nose. It seems that, for some ridings, strategy wasn't strong enough.

    If two Oranges 'cross' to Red to give Mark a mandate, can they 'cross' back before the next election?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I hope the fact that both the NDP and the LPC got screwed in BC on so many ridings causes their hopeful coalition government to actually implement voting reform this time.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pierre Poilievre likely to stay as party leader since he's very popular with the base. Unless someone like Doug Ford decides to fight him for the position.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pierre is very not popular - when Trudeau quit he had a higher approval rating than Pierre. People this time were voting for the party, not for Pierre.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    He's not popular overall, but he's very popular with the conversative base.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The election results (and polling on leader specifically) do not back that claim up.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Liberal, Conservative, Bloc, other.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That's why I carefully worded it "canada-wide parties". If it were just big parties by vote, you'd definitely be right. In fact, Bloc is the only big party that came through the last few months with their leader intact.

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