We're with Dion

It’s going to be a great few weeks for anonymous Liberals.

Forget that bit about Dion appealing for calm. That’s what it looked like from eight feet back. But up closer (and to a national audience) it sounded a bit different.

Stephane Dion emerged from the elevator just past midnight, walking fast in a dark suit, his wife at his right, his daughter at his left. Down the hall, past the water fountain, then a left, then another hundred feet and into the first burst of camera flashes and questions. 

With Duceppe having spoken and Layton speaking now, Dion should be along soon. The audience in front of the stage has filled in some, but it is hardly a large gathering. Maybe 150.

A running tally of Liberal incumbents defeated tonight.

Still very close: Outremont, Ahuntsic, Guelph, Mississauga Erindale, Kitchener-Waterloo, Kitchener Centre, Vancouver South, Newton North Delta and Brampton West.

Mulcair goes ahead, for the first time, by 17 votes.

CTV is interviewing Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae by split screen. The analysts on all the networks are calling Dion done.

Re-elected: Ken Dryden, Martha Hall Findlay, Lui Temelkovski, John McCallum, Derek Lee, Dan McTeague, John McKay, John Cannis, Jim Karygiannis, Bryon Wilfert, Borys W., Maria Minna, Bob Rae, Carolyn Bennett, Alan Tonks, Mario Silva, Michael Ignatieff, Navdeep Bains, Albina Guarnieri.

Ralph Goodale re-elected. Belinda Stronach’s riding goes to the Conservatives. Bonnie Brown is out.

For the Liberals…

We are reliably informed that Stephane Dion is watching the results come in on television with his family.