Author: TheNewTeddy

Teddy here with a quick reference guide to the election in British Columbia. First, some links that may be useful: Media and other Info sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_2013http://www.elections.bc.ca/ge2013/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bcvotes2013/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/election-2013http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc-election/index.htmlhttp://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/ Our “Competition” for BC Election Projections:http://www.tooclosetocall.ca/ (bilingual author)http://www.threehundredeight.com/ (the big one)http://bciconcoclast.blogspot.ca/ (More focus on analysis, like here at Blunt Objects)http://cdnelectionwatch.blogspot.ca/ (not active this election?)http://canadianelectionatlas.blogspot.ca/ (great source for maps)http://www.electionprediction.org/2013_bc/index.php (Veteran of the field)

Teddy here with a quick message to let you all know that voting is open for the 2013 Liberal Party of Canada leadership. The information mailer which contained the information for you to vote was incorrect on it’s list of candidates, and there are only 6, not 7. We can

Teddy here. I can confirm the final ballot for the Liberal Leadership contains 7 names, and one of them is David Bertschi. Along with Cauchon, Coyne, Hall Findlay, McCrimmon, Murray and Trudeau, Bertschi is included in the official list of candidates. I know this because I’ve received my mailer, which

Teddy here. I was browsing around when I found out that Eric from 308 has requested and received this: http://www.threehundredeight.com/2013/03/preferential-ballot-poll.html?spref=tw data. I’ve been able to determine that the data is almost certainly from this poll: http://abacusdata.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Political-Update_Mar-2013.pdf by Abacus. Eric’s analysis itself is interesting as to what might happen if we had a voting system

As of today, we are on our first full day without a Pope. We will need to elect a new one, and while it is officially a church election, it’s also an election for the leader of a (very small) country. The Vatican. Thus, this qualifies for another one of

Teddy here with some interesting information glamed from the always fun-to-analyze Vote Compass results (Quebec in this case). One question in particular caught my attention; on Independence; which suggests that things have changed quite radically from the last Referendum. If you don’t see it at first, this map may help: In short,

On Monday, Italy goes to the polls to elect a new government. The results for the lower house are all but certain. The Socialist alliance will take exactly 344 seats. We know this, in part, because whichever party wins the most votes, regardless of if it’s by 1 vote of

For those who have not been following news coming from the PEI Official Opposition  it may surprise you to learn there is trouble. While the “problem” seems to have been solved now, the fact remains the party is divided. I believe I’ve been able to patch together what has happened though

Teddy here again with another weekly special, this time scheduled for Sundays. This will be the only time when you’ll get both a Saturday and Sunday update, as, I’ll be using this to help full out the weekend on those weeks when there is nothing to update. This series focuses

Teddy here, starting a weekly Saturday update of politics from around the world! First, we should look at where the next elections are. Tomorrow, there are elections in little Monaco; but I’d like to focus on some larger nations that are more crucial to world affairs. Italy is the next “big” country

It’s all over but the voting. Unless divine intervention occurs, Kathleen Wynne will be elected as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 2 to 3 hours. Unfortunately, I will not be able to be around for that, as I had other plans for today, so this is the final update

The final ballot is being cast. The deadline to withdraw has passed. Kennedy went to Wynne with about 8 minutes left. Sousa has decided to join him. Wynne has a clear advantage here. Whatever the math people are trying to push on Twitter right now, the race is still undecided.

This is likely the penultimate ballot, as Kennedy and Sousa would be silly to carry on at this stage. He would need over 100% support to even edge into second. The results of the ballot are as follows:817 – Pupatello750 – Wynne285 – Kennedy203 – Sousa18 – Takhar Kennedy, if