Quebec Byelection Results

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Outremont… with 5 polls reporting, NDP leading Liberals with nearly 50% of the vote.
(Jason, calm yourself. It’s early.)
Outremont … with 10 polls reporting, NDP leading Liberals 45% of the vote…
(jason, put down the glass. You’ll regret it tomorrow.)
Outremont … with 45 polls reporting, NDP leading Liberals with 49% of the vote…
(Jason, it’s not the dog’s fault. Stop kicking him.)
In other Earth Saving political developments, the Green Party is leading the NeoRhino candidate by a margin of 4 to 1. Good times at Elizabeth May’s tonight!
Outremont … with 60 polls reporting, NDP leading Liberals with 48.5% of the vote …
(Jason, come away from that window. Have another drink.)
Speaking of drink – you may take one for every time someone being interviewed on CPAC says “Stephane Dion is our leader”.
Outremont … with 100 polls reporting, NDP leading Liberals with 48.5% of the vote…
(The phone at Jason’s keeps ringing. Could someone please blackberry him for me and check that he’s ok?)
In the “Liberal stronghold” of Outremont, with the entire Liberal Quebec caucus holding tight to the handrails as she submerges below the waves…. Jocelyn Coulon has conceded defeat – “I feel as though I’ve won tonight”.
(Jason… put down the gun.)
From the comments (along with many excellent limericks) – “Pinhead just switched to English, and thanked “all Liberal militants.” I kid you not.”

123 Replies to “Quebec Byelection Results”

  2. No bias from CTV tonight. 22 minutes of liberal handwringing and pointing fingers,not one shot of any of the three winners.I guess they didn’t believe that the libs could possibly lose ,so they did not send a camera crew to any of the other candidates headquarters. How pathetic.

  3. Look at Layton standing behind Mulcair; he’s already thinking about which color he wants to paint 24 Sussex.

  4. Think Stephan Dion will still want to go to Afghanistan after tonight? Sharks have a really good sense of smell.

  5. GDW: an election is in the hands of Harper, and Harper only. He can put stuff in the throne speech that the opposition could never support. Like an intention to abolish the Senate. Watch for it.

  8. Like an intention to abolish the Senate.
    nope. That is an NDP plank. it’ll pass
    It’ll go the same as the last throne speech. The leaders will run for the mikes to oppose it. The last one gets to support it.

  9. Mr. Coulon just gracefully butted in on Mr Dion as he explained how people who vote NDP are actually protesting against the Conservatives; and got him to shut up.
    Bad case of handlers, Mr Dion. He should have made a quick egress and left the thanks all speech to Coulon. Instead, he makes pathetic, this is our finest hour speech. IMHO, this would be a good time to withdraw quietly to your quarters and then regroup tomorow. He appeared to want to explain what went wrong; well at least he didn’t complain. Shouldn’t there be some staffer paid lots of dough to say “Shut up, Stephane!” He didn’t need to make that speech and it didn’t work; how could it with 45 long faces behind him.
    Where the heck is the Lib A-team? This bunch is a gong show compared to the likes of Chretien’s juggernaut.
    The big question is: has Jack Layton finally realized where his vote comes from (hint: it doesn’t come from attacking Tories and leaving Grits alone). He put up a moderate candidate under the NDP banner; a good move (where did he get his organization) This is an definite improvement on Phil Edmonston.
    The worm seems to have turned for Grits, with the Tories sittin’ pretty as today began. How are they feeling right now? I wonder if they regret their fixed election date law?

  10. There once was a blogger named Jason
    Who’s stupidity was something amazin’
    He backed the wrong guy
    Dion is so dry
    Iggy is comin’ a chasin’

  12. Flaggman;
    He could indeed, and after tonight I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he tried. But if so, watch Duceppe and Dion start to wail about how Harper’s playing politics and trying to force an election. They’ll just position themselves as good old Canadian compromisers who are trying to fend off an election that “Canadians” (meaning themselves) don’t want. Political chicken.

  13. Syncro: Duce just said if the PM doesn’t implement Kyoto he won’t support the throne speech, and the Bloc will be ready for a general election and win back the seats he’s lost.

  14. Holy sh– again! The Conservatives are only about 5 points behind in St. Hyacinthe right now (37.1% to 42.3%). They can’t win of course, but Duceppe’s not going to want to look at the results from that one for too long, either.

  15. I would like to be handing out sharpen knives so that liberal backstabber’s can go at it.
    Liberals all suck

  16. Jason has given us his eleven comments(excuses) about tonight’s ass-whupping.His first two comments refer to the problems that the libs had with lawn signs. There must be an opposition lawn sign cartel that conspired against the libs. It is so unfair.

  18. Realistically, when you taken into consideration how far to the left (hence the enormous debt) Quebec is, I am surprised that the NDP don’t win more seats on a regular basis.

  19. Flaggman: This should be fun. Political hari kari on the left seems to be the order of the day.
    I’m sure Harper had internal polling numbers that indicated something along the lines of tonights results. Hence the delay to open the fall session of parliament and the pending throne speech.
    Duce is playing along nicely.
    Syncro

  20. “militants” is the French word for activists/party workers. he is not calling for Islamic-style jihad…yet

  21. There once was a man we called Dion
    Whom we knew couldn’t win in an eon
    His head was so pointy
    He stabbed his appointee
    When he turned for a shoulder to lean on.

  22. A carpetbagger on a mule named Jason
    Got lost on the way to the station
    Now Taliban Jack
    Is set to attack
    Looks like Iggy’s your only salvation.
    I just luv weasel stomping day.

  23. With these results, and the conservative popular vote, will Danny boy still say, vote ABC. Will these results have any affect on the Ont by-elections to be set after Oct 16. Biggest question, will any more liberals resign before Oct 2009. Will Garth want to re-cross the floor. Any word from Scott.
    With all the hype how imortant Outremont was, the voters didn’t think so, with such a low turnout.
    We need an election before dion suddenly comes down with some weird disease and has to resign.
    But, could the liberals afford another leadership race, and how many more by-elections can they afford. Martha, Rae and Kennedy better not plan on an MPs salary for a while. If Que voters can turn on the liberals, so can Toronto voters.
    Layton will be fighting to become the leader of the opposition.

  25. PM Harper and his Consrvatives won by as much as 40% MORE than our beloved media “polls” were predicting.
    Why did the “pollsters” get this one so wrong ??
    The media would not have been intentially skewing the poll numbers in order to downplay CPC strength, would they ??
    We will never know as they never reveal the raw data or who was actually polled.

  26. This is bad, but imagine if the Toronto ridings are not as friendly to the Liberals? We might have an identity crisis in the Liberal Party seeing they are only the Liberal Party of Toronto now if they lose one of the Ontario byelections too!

  27. Congratulations to the NDP for winning. We need more real opposition to Stinky Steven Harper and his cronies.

  28. There’s a blogger named J. Cherniak
    On the payroll; a Liberal hack
    Put his eggs in one basket
    Now Dion’s in a casket
    Your integrity’s gone; grab a snack.

  29. *
    jason must have stroked out… he’s babbling incoherently
    “No honest Liberal is happy with tonight’s results. At the
    same time, no journalist who claims that this is a “blow
    to Dion’s leadership” knows what he or she is talking about.”
    *

  30. Say Amen, Reform brothers and sisters! You did indeed open your hearts to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
    “But westward, look…the land is bright.”
    (A.H. Clough)
    …-
    Chuckercanuck said…
    did he start the sea-change?
    absolutely. I mean, of course he was reading this blog in those early days before the 2006 election, but aside from that, he’s the one who had the cahones to look to his reform brethren and say, “trust me and open your hearts”.
    they did, they have and we are all the beneficiaries of that.
    Harper gets full credit….-
    https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17821047&postID=2340121352467858461

  31. I seem to remember a column by John Ibbitson of the G&M in which he makes known Harper has some kind of plan to supplant the natural governing party with the Conservatives, perhaps even reducing the Liberals to less than Official Opposition in the House. Can anyone find this column?

  32. HOL EEEE SHIT!!!
    The CPC gives the Bloc a smackdown with authority in Roberval, they hold the Bloc to a 5% spread in Ste Hyacinthe, and the NDP beat out the libs in Outremont.
    In the words of chandler bing…
    Could it get ANY better???

  34. I think Citoyenne Dion (if you saw the safety dance, citoyenne is apt) will suddenly find that trip to Af’stan ideal right about now…

  35. Cherniak said “Somebody put out the story of Liberal infighting only two days before the vote. That person made a bad situation worse and should be fired…”
    He then went on to say that Paul Revere should have been shot…

  36. A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi,
    Bis interimitur, qui suis armis perit.
    Nulla avarita sine poena est,
    Palmam qui meruit ferat.
    (Sensu stricto, nullo metro compositum est.)

  38. Forget the blogger named Jas..,
    ‘Cause its the end of this race.
    He’s so far back of us now,
    He’s sure to think how
    The Libs must be in first place.

  40. *
    MINUTIAE:
    Outremont has fallen out of Liberal hands
    only once previously since 1935.
    The Liberals’ current seat-count in Quebec
    – 12 – is the lowest since Confederation.
    *

  43. Cherniak wrote: “No honest Liberal is happy with tonight’s results.”
    Huh?? Doesn’t that suggest that all Liberals are happy with tonight’s results?

  44. CTV newsnet is reporting that this evening’s results have “maginalized the Liberals and the Conservatives are now the federalist option in Quebec.” Robert Fife

  45. If these by-election were meant to be a test to see how much support the Conservatives have in Quebec, it didn’t go that well. On the other hand, it went really badly for the Liberals.

  46. Iberia:
    I’m going to give you a little math quiz.
    Add up the total votes in all three by-elections and report back which party got most of the votes.
    BTW, Outremount apparently has a large immigrant population, so it’s no surprise they went NDP.

  47. Fun with tonights numbers. Total votes summed for all three ridings and percentages.
    Con 31475 36.9
    Lib 12118 14.2
    Bloc 23983 28.1
    NDP 14587 17.1
    Green 2197 2.6
    neorhino 529 0.6
    other 366 0.4
    The last year of polling across Canada had the Green party at ~10%. Where did that vote go? What can be said about the Liberals at 14% in Quebec with a native son as the leader?

  48. The stench must have been pretty bad in Lib.headquarters..so bad ,that the even the media-whore Garth stayed away!

  49. This is bad news for Harper unless all of the opposition leaders goes insane and vote down the throne speech.
    There’s no way he can force a fall election based on this, which means he has no momentum to count on. He also has no significant policy, and no staying power in the polls. Cut the GST another point? Yawn.
    He’s hooped himself. Ticks me off, and I was hoping for a Tory majority sometime before 2050. The Libs have time to knife Dion and bring a new leader forward before Steve’s (can I call him Steve?) fixed election date arrives.
    This is a sad day for the Conservative Party. Mark my words.

  50. There once was a guy named Iggy
    who caused Stephane to squeal like Miss Piggy
    when he snuck around town,
    sowing doubt all around,
    now Stephane is not very giggly…
    (sorry, it’s late)

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