Philippe J. Fournier: The Liberals remain in strong minority territory, while the Conservatives sit near their unshakeable floor of 30 per cent support
Philippe J. Fournier: As of this moment, Blaine Higgs’s PCs are projected to win an average of 28 seats to the Liberals 17. The Greens are solidly in third place.
Philippe J. Fournier: The NDP and leaderless Greens are up, while the Conservatives aren’t fading. Don’t expect a snap election.
Elizabeth May’s party wants to cooperate
The Green candidate in the Calgary Centre byelection finds lessons in the result.
Some of the Green party leader’s comments to reporters after QP yesterday.
Reviewing the by-elections, Alice Funke focuses on the Green vote.
Adam Radwanski explains Elizabeth May’s first-past-the-post conundrum.
Working with the rebate threshold, Alice Funke tallies the number of ridings in which each party received at least 10% of the vote. Those totals are as follows, with changes from 2008 in brackets.
Changes in popular vote totals for the parties from 2008 to 2011.
Each party leader has picked their favourite speech. Read the full text here.
Here is the magazine piece on Michael Ignatieff’s current situation. Here is the math.