Nominations Update – May 3, 2010
Nominations Progress – 41st General Election
| YT | NT | NU | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | Tot | Pct | Wom | Pct | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 106 | 75 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 308 | |||
| Lib | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 88 | 44 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 192 | 62% | 62 | 32.3% | |
| NDP | 1 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 71 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 133 | 43% | 48 | 36.1% | |||
| Grn | 1 | 1 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 77 | 50 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 192 | 62% | 57 | 29.7% | ||
| BQ | 38 | 38 | 12% | 9 | 23.7% | ||||||||||||
| Cons | 1 | 30 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 78 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 193 | 63% | 38 | 19.7% | |||
| Ind | 1 | 1 | 0% | ||||||||||||||
| Oth | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1% | 1 | 50.0% | |||||||||||
I’ll keep this first post in WordPress short and sweet due to the late hour, but we finally have an updated tally of party nominations for the four main parties, including some candidates who have stepped down (although I haven’t added them to that list yet).
In the coming days, we’ll get caught up on the smaller parties, take a look at the back stories on who stepped down and why, review which incumbents are retiring and which seats are vacant and who’s lining up to run in them, take a look at who else is planning a run, and see where the parties have filled their slates and where they still have some holes to fill.
And, as always, if you have nomination news to pass along from your part of the country or political spectrum, I’m back in the nomination news swing of things, so please do send them along.
I had also expected that last Friday, being the last day in April, might have seen the Party Financial Returns for the first quarter of 2010 posted at Elections Canada, but no luck there, so I expect we’ll see them on Monday instead. As I said on Twitter, I’m not expecting any huge blow-outs from any party, or they would have tweeted them out to supporters to get ahead of the news. The Green Party tweeted theirs on Friday: they were up $14K to $228K from 5,919 donors, but did not break that down by category of donation size so I’ll have to wait to see the returns before entering that into the database.
This is my first substantive post using WordPress. Over the past little while, we’ve been working furiously to get things ready for a migration over from Blogger. Because of the square-peg-round-hole issues of trying to squeeze my custom database-generated pages into a content-management system environment, not every little thing about the site is working as you remember, or is in exactly the same place. No matter: pretty soon we’re going to start to move a few more things around to make more space, and hopefully make the interface a bit easier to work with as well. “Less purple” is also the refrain I keep hearing from people who know something about design, so who am I to argue.
The RSS feed address for the blog has moved as well: it’s now at http://www.punditsguide.ca/feed/ and I hope you’ll switch your RSS reader subscription over (or start a new one!), and follow along that way if you’re so inclined. You can also follow @punditsguide on Twitter.
I think the site is set up to moderate comments at the moment, which I’ll remove as soon as I figure out how to do it. Early indications were that a new WordPress blog seems to attract a LOT of spam though, although luckily my fabulous developer knew to add the Akismet plug-in which has cleaned up nearly all of that.
Right: keep your fingers crossed that this works. Here I go, I’m clicking Publish now …
