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PP's riding update as of approximately midnight EST:
Image Source: Globalnews
105,000
eligible voters (Source: Citizen)43,394
people cast an early ballot (Source: CTV News)Alternative: National Post > Just the subframe for Carleton
This might be the most interesting thing so far, actually, with the orange-blue swing votes in second place.
Poilievre could leave this as a freshly minted lobbyist: His first normal job.
Iirc he's got a 5 yr wait before he can register as a lobbyist.
That would make sense. Hmm. A desk job at Harper & Associates I guess, then.
Hopefully it's in the American regime and we never see him again. Opps...was that out loud
Hopefully we've passed an inflection point now, and we're not doomed to keep following their trajectory.
Update about 00:35 EST
110
/266
polls reporting28,327
votes reporting14,529
51.3%
12,817
45.2%
(source Globalnews)
Update about 01:05 EST
PP pulls up 0.5%
24,248
51%
21,688
45.6%
709
1.5%
(source Globalnews)
Comment: Thy have counted 6709 votes in the past 30 minutes or so. This is the riding with 1 meter long ballots. What the fuck.
Update about 10:40 est
264/266 polls reporting
83,756 votes reporting
Bruce Fanjoy LIB 42,374 50.6%
Pierre Poilievre* CON 38,581 46.1%
Beth Prokaska NDP 1,190 1.4%
Same source as previous
Comment: that's about 80% voter turnout
https://globalnews.ca/news/11153487/canada-election-pierre-poilievre-carleton-riding-results/