Author: TheNewTeddy

As the year draws to a close, I’d like to review some events from late December; things that may have been skipped in “year end reviews”. I am also going to include smaller stories from earlier that may have been passed by. I’ll go alphabetically. Alberta There has been a

There are a number of things to look forward to in the coming year. January 31stSouth Australia (Provincial Level) election Start of “Spring Election Season” March 17thIsrael Election March 22ndSweden Election March 28thNew South Wales (Australia, Provincial Level) election End of “Spring Election Season” April 19thFinland Election May 7thUnited Kingdom

WildRump will retain the title of “Official Opposition” it seems. The Wildrose party, which was originally elected with 17 members, now has 5 remaining. This ties the Liberals at 5; however, due to precedent, they will retain the title they already hold. Speakers across the country have ruled, time and

7 Wildrose MLAs are crossing the floor, including the leader, leaving WildRump as the official opposition for the time being. I’ve decided to respond to this by making a map of the party affiliations, post defection, of Alberta’s MLAs.

While Wildrose figures out what it’s future is, and Glenn Thibeault decides to bring Ontario provincial politics in the news, I thought I would take a step back and examine some other issues. The final results from Japan are out. The map I posted earlier is correct and still stands,

Nothing confirmed yet, but word from the grapevine is that Wildrose may merge with the PC Party. I want to take a look at party standings in the Alberta Legislature first. In the 2012 election, the results were as follows: PC – 61WR – 17LB – 5ND – 4 Between

I’ve created a results map, using more “Canadian” party colours. This is adapted from the Wikipedia map on the Japan election page. The LDP is shown in Conservative Blue, while the DPJ has been assigned Liberal Red. The JIP has Reform-Alliance Green, while I’ve assigned NDP Orange to the JCP

This election did not change much, it seems, when all the ballots have been counted. The Governing LDP has taken 290 seats, down from 294 in the last election. It’s coalition partner, Komeito, has taken 35, up from 31. The main opposition party, the DPJ, has gone from 57 seats

Early in the counting of ballots in Japan, results seem to indicate a few trends. First, the LDP will not, alone, take a 2/3rds majority; but will retain said majority when allied with it’s coalition partner. Secondly, the DPJ, while gaining seats, will not gain as many as hoped. Third,

Things are heating up in the Israeli election, scheduled for March. There are a number of developments in the past week. Hatnuah, the party of Tzipi Livni, has decided to run under a temporary merger with Labour. This is not terribly unusual; Yisrael Beitenu and Likud had a one-election merger

Japan, the world’s third largest economy, goes to the polls this sunday in an election focused on economic recovery. The governing LDP has a right-wing stimulus package known as “Abenomics”, named after the Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Abenomics has proven somewhat controversial but also popular among some. Abe, whose name

This is a quick post, but I wanted to give everyone a heads up that within the last 24 hours, no less than three countries, have gone into snap elections. I will update you all as usual as more information comes out. FTR: Japan, Israel, and Sweden.

Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has surprised even his own voting public by calling a sudden snap election. Fortunately, this was one of the two countries that had not yet set an election date (the other being Israel) that I’ve been following. In fact I stumbled upon this, not via

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/11/30/mayorelect_john_tory_unveils_his_new_team.html# This article by the star outlines who will fill the seats. In short, the new government looks a lot like the old government. Only one, possibly two councillors are “too right-wing” for the new government, that is Rob Ford, and possibly Giorgio Mammoliti. Missing is Norm Kelly, though as

Using the figures I worked out in my last post, I’ve done up a map. I want to note I ended up using 3 as the Liberal figure as after looking at polls, it seemed more in line with reality. While this would be terrible for the Tories, it would

This is partly in reply to a 308 post about the by-elections provincially in Newfoundland. What I want to discuss is two things. First; what to do when you want to do a projection but are short on time. Right now I am very short on time (sorry for not

Teddy here; as most of you likely know by now, US politics is not my cup of tea. However, I thought I should at least outline some results from last night’s Mid-Terms. SENATE:R – 53D – 47This presumes that Angus King will caucus with the majority. If he does not,

Teddy here. I am still getting used to my new computer, so the graphics quality of my maps may be below par for a while, however, I take pride in creating maps that can share quality information. Take for example the Summerside election. Summerside is the second largest city in

Teddy here on his laptop with a quick update. The above is a colour coded results table. The largest victory is in Calgary-Foothills.The ratio margin is 0.5129That means even if the PC Party had only managed 51.29% of their vote they would have still won (or at least tied) in

I hope everyone who follows this blog who can vote today has already done so. Those who have yet to, I hope you do so soon, even if you simply submit an empty ballot. I’ve voted for Morgan Baskin. I am unconvinced she could do any worse than the “big