Poll Shows Canadian Greens Have Fair Chance to Elect Their First Member of Parliament
September 3rd, 2010A poll released on September 3 suggests that the Green Party has a fair chance to elect its first member of the Canadian Parliament. The poll, for the Saanich-Gulf Islands district just north of Victoria, British Columbia, shows: Gary Lunn, Conservative, 34%; Elizabeth May, Green Party, 32%; Renee Hetherington, Liberal, 17%; Edith Loring-Kohanga, New Democratic, 17%. See this story. The Canadian Green Party has never before elected anyone to Parliament. The date of the election is not set yet, but it will be this year.
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
The poll I stumbled across last night showed the Green Party would elect THREE new members of the legislature.
Especially liked the chances of the retired Army Col. running as Green Party candidate..
September 3rd, 2010 at 6:05 pm
That sounds pretty unlikely a Green will get elected since Canada uses single winner districts, last I heard. BAN sure has a lot of half-baked truths, and useless speculations.
September 3rd, 2010 at 6:18 pm
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September 3rd, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Posts #2 and #3 look like spam.
The Vancouver Sun article is encouraging. It is unfortunate that there is such a split between the Greens and the NDP. I don’t know a lot about the development of the Green Party in Canada, but would it be accurate to say that the party was based on disaffected Liberal voters rather than NDP constituencies?
September 4th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Canada like the U.K. has the standard EVIL minority rule gerrymander plurality system for the Canada House of Commons – aka the MORON *first past the post* — from U.K. horse racing.
P.R. and App.V.
September 5th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Greens have won seats in England and Australia under single member ridings.
It is difficult, but certainly possible.