Can the BC Liberals win?
Teddy here to answer a simple question: can the BC Liberals win. The answer, which might surprise some, is yes. A few things need to happen though to make this…
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BC Projection (Teddy)
Teddy here with a final but personal projection. The BC Liberals will finish with 23 seats. This is the core of the projection. I’ve made projections like this before for…
Number of Candidates
Teddy here for a hat trick of posts, this time, examining the number of candidates parties run in elections. For those who have been following my tweets, you will know…
Around the world
Teddy again with a quick look at politics around the world. We start today in Japan, where a summer election for the upper house is scheduled. If the polls are…
More on Quebec
Teddy here with some expansion on an earlier post about Quebec. The poll taken, as outlined in that article, had Federal and Provincial questions asked. Since the poll used the…
Quick Reference Guide to the BC election
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…
"Final" turnout numbers (Updated)
Teddy here again; this time on the right day! I’ve gathered the data from the turnout results and present them to you in this table: It would seem requiring registration…
Liberal Leadership Vote Turnout
Teddy here. I’ve complied the data from ballots cast as of 3pm on Sunday Saturday (turns out I don’t know what day is its!) Note that while this is the…
Voting is open!
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…
David Bertschi still on ballot.
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…
Preferential Balloting and Merger
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…
World Elections – Pope/Vatican
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…
Changes in Quebec
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…
World Elections – Italy
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.…
Chaos for the PEI PC Party
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…
Historical Elections
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…
Around the world
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;…
Wynne to become Premier
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…
OLP Leadership – Penultimate
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…
OLP Leadership – 2nd ballot
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.…