Find Your Liberal Candidate

2011 Federal Election 61 Comments

Continued.…

I live in James Moore’s riding of Port Moody-Weswood-Port Coquitlam, and wondered who the Liberal candidate is, and discovered there isn’t one. I thought that odd. It also seemed that there sure weren’t many Liberals running in BC. So I started checking out who is running for the Liberals in every region across the country. According to the Liberals’ website, they are only running 229 candidates in 308 ridings. In fact, unless I’ve made a serious error somewhere, I’ve found that the only province that the Liberals are running a full-slate of candidates is New Brunswick!
Here are the numbers I’ve found. The Liberals of running in:
19 of 36 ridings in BC
14 of 28 in Alberta
8 of 14 in Saskatchewan
7 of 14 in Manitoba
101 of 106 in Ontario
50 of 75 in Quebec
10 of 10 in New Brunswick
10 of 11 in Nova Scotia
3 of 4 in PEI
6 of 7 in Newfoundland
0 of 1 in the Yukon
1 of 1 in the NWT
0 of 1 in Nunavut
Why is the media not talking about this?

Because it requires math, is my guess.

Update – here’s a useful site, thanks to dizzy, in the comments.

61 Replies to “Find Your Liberal Candidate”

  2. Yup. My riding here in the Estevan area has no Liberal candidate. I am wondering how this will play out? The typical liberal will have to choose between the evil Stephen Harper or the commie Jack Layton. I think either way when the vote splits the net gain will play into the hands of the Conservative majority.

  3. So Iggy is out for the “national” debate and Lizy May is in! after all it’s all about having a national presence… (no sarcasm intended)

  4. It would be interesting to see how many NDP candidates are running and if there is any synchornicity between the Liberals and the NDP.

  5. Hmmmm… so if western Canadians won’t play along, we’ll just ensure they don’t get to vote for the next Prime Minister’s party. That should go over well.
    Roughly speaking, if the block accounts for about 50 MPs and the Liberals account for 70 MPs then many people in western Canada will not even have the option to vote for over 2/3s of the coalition participants.
    Obviously the Liberals are NOT a national party! It’s time to start hitting this one home.
    IMO this has scandal written all over it.

  6. A liberal candidate for my area (South Eastern Alberta) has just been named. It’s just a symbolic gesture though, the chances of the liberal candidate winning = zero. I haven’t seen a single election sign from any party around here. This riding has been forfeited to the CPC.

  7. I think it’s more a case of the Liberals not being able to even find candidates to run. No one wants to run for a loser. That Quebec number is shockingly low. If the Liberals can’t even find candidates in Quebec, how are they going to win anything?

  9. The period for nomination meetings and election of candidates doesn’t close until some time around 11 April.

  10. I would bet that in the majority of those ridings where Liberals ARE running..there is no NDP candidate. Hmmmm
    Nah, I must be wrong..can’t be a Coalition – Mikey said so…

  11. It will be very interesting to see an analysis of all the ridings where there is only one of Liberal or NDP running and compare the prior party support in those ridings to see what a possible outcome would be without the NDP and Liberal vote split.
    It sure looks fishy for a “National” party to be so underrepresented – especially in areas (like Saskatchewan) where the NDP might be a credible opponent to the Conservative given that there is no Liberal running. What is the situation in Red Square?

  12. I think you will see them nominate a token candidate in nearly every riding, this is similar to 2008. The remaining nominees will just be cannon fodder in ridings they can’t hope to win. The key battlegrounds are mostly covered. I am a little puzzled that they still need 25 in PQ though.

  13. Because this isn’t really an election, it’s a 300 million dollar Liberal Leadership race however if Liberal Media can work it’s magic Iffy might get a minority government made up of socialists and seperatists. If MSM wins this war against the electorate we can join the US and thank the media for causing our economy to go into the tank.

  14. For a breakdown of all the 2008 winners check out Electionprediction.org. All ridings are listed with the winner. Click on the winner and all votes for every party comes up. Takes time but interesting. Then you can make a prediction who will win on May 2.
    79 liberal ridings to check out to see who won and by how much last time.

  15. Interesting. I’m in Winnipeg South and couldn’t find an NDP candidate. Same for St. Boniface.
    I might not have the right information but as of 5:45 PM CDT, that’s what I (don’t) have…

  16. According to Elections Canada, there are only TWO confirmed candidates as of today. A Liberal in St. Boniface and a Green in Victoria. No conservatives at all.
    Another non-story, Kate.

  17. It’s not that big a deal with respect to coalition plotting, at least in Manitoba. All 7 of the Manitoba ridings without liberal candidates right now were won by the Tories by greater than 50% (sometimes 65%+) of the popular vote in 2008.

  18. Nanaimo-Cowichan (Vancouver Island) the Liberal candidate who has been in the race for three days has announced today that he is dropping out (for personal reasons).
    He was up against NDP Jean Crowder – she of the “soldiers should be designated as war criminals” fame.
    No Liberal as of yet named for Nanaimo-Alberni – currently Conservative held riding.

  19. The list shows 0 of 1 running in Yukon. But Bagnell (incumbent lieberal) is running. Maybe something is wrong with the source list?

  21. “Why is the media not talking about this?”
    As others have already pointed out, because there’s no story here. Eight seconds on Google would have revealed as much.
    Of course, reality won’t stop a good number of your loyal readers from going on about how this further proves the existence of a coalition conspiracy.

  23. The co-operation of the opposition in deciding where to run candidates or not is relevant to the question of whether they’re working towards a formal coalition. That isn’t a factor from the Conservatives’ standpoint.
    However, I’ll remind readers that sometimes I just get emails posing good questions. This is the way they get answered.

  24. Kate: “The co-operation of the opposition in deciding where to run candidates or not is relevant to the question of whether they’re working towards a formal coalition.”
    Well, if there was any evidence of that happening, it will be very interesting. But there’s none of that here…

  25. So much for the Liberals’ claim that they were ready for the election…

  26. The Candidates in those ridings in Winnipeg are sitting MPs ….there is ONE sitting Librano in WPG …. Anita Neville …. the conservative candidate candidate was selected to depose her over a year ago.
    Neville should have been gone in 08 …. except for a successful smear campaign against Trevor Kennerd …. acted out by Nevilles social services friends and abbeted by CBC in Winnipeg … she would be.

  28. I live in the same riding as Kate, Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar. It is listed as one of the 50 s
    eats to watch. Kelly Block is the Conservative incumbent and Nettie Wiebe is the perennial NDP candidate. Neither the Liberals nor The Green Party are running candidates this election.

  29. That little trick worked well for the Dippers and the Libbies last time with May. Oh, wait…it’s didn’t. God I hope the Liberals are slaughtered at the polls along with the NDP.

  33. After checking with NDP headquarters, there are currently 221 candidates running. Oddly, in ridings which were split vote last time, there seems to be a dearth of either Liberal or NDP candidates.

  34. Jack:
    ALthough the wp site was last updated today, I expect it is out of date. But then I would expect the Liberal candidate list to be out of date as well.

  35. The Prime Minister has said over and over again just what Kate’s question and the answers to that question,with facts and actions, reveal. Canadians have a either/or choice in this election, they can vote for the Ducippee driven Troika with Icky as the puppet, Jacko and his other brother Ducippee in the wings Calling the shots) or they can vote Conservative. If the Conservatives get a majority our country will win.
    The troika has a ‘living agreement’ and they are ‘honoring’ it in their own twisted ways. Our country will tank if the Troika get their fingers on the keys to the treasury.

  36. I think the problem is that the local Riding associations were a bit slow on the uptake, as we just got our Liberal Candidate named a couple of days ago,in Kelowna-Lake Country.
    Haven’t seen a single Liberal or Dip sign anywhere yet, just a sea of blue ones, but once they get up and running,I’m sure they’ll have candidates in every Riding.
    The Lib/Dips are in this to WIN by hook or by…ahem.., so expect a landslide of last minute candidates.

  38. Oh geez, waddaya wanna bet Jon Kay will have a feature article on thins by mid next week. Luv ya Kate.

  39. Well if you are broke as a party you probably CAN’T run in all of the ridings.
    Besides, Jack is right … find me a Liberal anywhere in Alberta except for Edmonton. Why waste money on a seat that you will never fill??
    And if the Bloc can do it .. well —

  40. This was a hasty bid by Iggula, considering the state of Lieberal finances could there be money being funnelled via tides or one of Geo’s many other clandestine “fixer” organizations. Could it be that Iggula was at Harvard when Power and Sunstein were carrying on with one BO, seems coincidental as far as timing this election. And just who is funnelling cash to the so called MSM to try to get Iggula elected? The only thing Bourque CBC CTV Globe and the Starwipe havn’t done is physically assault Harper yet. This is very fishy for timing, and anyone who votes for this SCARY Iggula man is a fool, got that Mcleans, Iggula really is SCARY, my children crawl under their beds when he comes on TV, safer with that boogie man.

  41. @ Trent
    Not that it matters, but the Green candidate in S-B-R is Vicki Strelioff. No Liberal candidate though. (like you, I am in S-B-R)
    In SK, the number of nominated candidates for each party are as follows:
    CPC 14/14
    GPC 14/14
    LPC 8/14
    NDP 14/14

  42. I notice that the Liberals aren’t running a candidate in Edmonton Strathcona, which is (was) the only NDP seat in Alberta.

  44. Check out the Conservative website for Newton-North Delta … nothing. There are rumors in google, but nothing as far as contacts etc. The libs have had their signs up for almost a week.

  45. It just shows that even the libs and the NDP didn’t think they (the libs and NDP) were stupid enough to force an election.
    Bluffing gone wrong.

  46. Where do you get your information that the CPC has nominated roughly the same amount of candidates as the Liberals, Ted? If you’re using the link dizzy provided, you should note that it isn’t up-to-date, and the easy-to-glance-at (obviously) graph doesn’t reflect the current number of Conservatives candidates.
    In BC, for example, the Conservatives didn’t have candidates in six ridings at the time the page was posted, but they had upcoming nomination meetings for those six ridings (nomination meetings that have been held by now, according to the dates provided) but the results are obviously not reflected in the now stale-dated data at the link.

  47. “I notice that the Liberals aren’t running a candidate in Edmonton Strathcona, which is (was) the only NDP seat in Alberta.”
    Linda Duncan won that seat by 463 votes in the last election, and the third-place Liberal garnered 4279 total votes. By not having a candidate until the last possible moment, the Liberals are ceding all the left-of-centre editorial real-estate & local media attention (in this riding anyway) to the NDP. That smells to me. And I’m willing to bet the dog the Libs put in that fight not only won’t hunt, but will also advocate for legislation to ban hunting.
    It also smells that the party that brought the government down seems so unprepared on the ground to fight this election.
    All their ducks are in a row in Ontario, of course, but the rest of the country is an after-thought for the Liberals. That’s why they do so poorly out here. Much has been made already in this election about Harper’s blase attitude toward Quebec –but suggesting that the Liberals should have a candidate in my riding three weeks after the writ is dropped? Outrageous!

  48. EBD: “… not reflected in the now stale-dated data at the link.”
    Different but kinda the same issue for me. Why isn’t the info showing up on the Conservative web site? It really should be job 1 for those maintaining the site.

  50. Trent at 8:19 PM: “Nettie Wiebe is the perennial NDP candidate”
    =====================
    That puts me in mind of the old song:
    “The old gray mare,
    she ain’t what she used to be,
    ain’t what she used to be,
    ain’t what she used to be,
    Many long years ago….”
    http://tinyurl.com/3k9pq27

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