Three New Political Parties in the Works?
While I assemble a nominations update, I thought readers might be interested to read about three new potential actors in Canadian electoral politics:
As has been mentioned here several times, I'm working on getting the older election results into shape to include in this database. One thing you'll notice about the 1993 results is the very large number of political parties that ran candidates in that election, and the large number of candidates who ran in each riding. I wonder if we're moving in the same direction again.
- National Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - I saw this linked to in one of the threads at the Blogging Tories forums (sorry I can't find which one now, had a little computer crash since then). The website just contains an email address to contact for further information.
- The Pirate Party of Canada - Their main issue seems to be copyright laws, but they already have an online presence and set of discussion fora. I found them because someone in one of the forums linked to my site.
- The True North Party of Canada - Looks to be a new libertarian party trying to get going. I heard about it through a blogpost at the LangleyPolitics.com blog.
As has been mentioned here several times, I'm working on getting the older election results into shape to include in this database. One thing you'll notice about the 1993 results is the very large number of political parties that ran candidates in that election, and the large number of candidates who ran in each riding. I wonder if we're moving in the same direction again.
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