Conservatives win majority government

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Conservatives win majority government

Jered Stuffco, CTV.ca News

Date: Mon. May. 2 2011 10:46 PM ET

Canadians have handed Prime Minister Stephen Harper his first-ever majority government, in a historic result that also saw the mighty Liberals decimated and the separatist movement in Quebec all but obliterated, according to CTV projections.
In a stunning result, NDP Leader Jack Layton made history by becoming the first-ever NDP leader to move into Stornaway as the official Opposition leader, CTV also projects.

While Layton and his party were cruising to a historic win, the Liberals and the Bloc were heading for crushing defeats.
Much of the NDP's rise has been attributed to a burst of support in Quebec, where Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe was forced to do heavy battle in his home Montreal riding and across the province.

Just after 10:30 p.m. ET, these were the results for elected or leading ridings:

• Conservatives: 156 ridings
• NDP: 105 ridings
• Liberals: 33
• Bloc Quebecois: 3

To secure a majority government, 155 of 308 seats are needed.

At NDP gatherings across the country, the party faithful were giddy with excitement as the left-leaning party reaped massive wins in Quebec and knocked off high-profile MPs across the country.

"This is really good for Canada," said former NDP Judy Wasylycia-Leis.

"This really shakes things up in Quebec and it really shows that the separatist movement is in trouble.
Among those MPs who won't be returning to Parliament:

• Conservative cabinet minister Lawrence Cannon
• Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy
• Liberal Mark Holland
• Independent Helena Guergis

The numbers were also dismal for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, who officially became the party's leader exactly two years ago to the day.

To secure a majority government, 155 of 308 seats are needed.

In Atlantic Canada, Conservative cabinet ministers Peter MacKay and Gail Shea held onto their seats.
Liberal candidate Siobhan Coady, meanwhile, was dislodged in St. John's South-Mount Pearl as part of the NDP bump that led to the party picking up seats across the region.

The Liberals lost five seats in Atlantic Canada, with the NDP and the Conservatives picking up the slack.
"We were offering a choice," said incumbent NDP MP Jack Harris in St. John's East in Newfoundland. "Mr. Ignatieff said 'Red door, blue door' (but) he forgot about the orange door."
Conservative Fabian Manning, an ex-MP who quit his Senate post to run in Newfoundland, was defeated in a close battle.
Reflecting on the party's increased haul in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Maritimes, MacKay said the party had done well.

"We had tough ground to till on the Rock but we ran a very good campaign in the region."
Exactly two years ago, Ignatieff was officially endorsed as the Liberal leader, and many in the party were hopeful he could heal a fractured group that suffered a major loss in the 2008 campaign.
But the results Monday were anything but encouraging, falling into third
place for the first time in the party's storied history.
Results were still being tallied in Quebec, Ontario and the West, but the Liberals were already licking their wounds.
Some, like Liberal insider and Senate mainstay David Smith, were looking beyond the results for glimpses of hope.
"I hear that word ‘demise,' but there's another word: regeneration," Smith said. "There will be soul-searching, no doubt about that, but we'll come back."

In the Prairies, Harper grabbed his home seat in Calgary
While the election campaign began with a whimper, the contest heated up as Layton, Ignatieff, Harper and Duceppe jostled for support in key ridings.
"This started out like an episode from Seinfeld -- an election about nothing -- but it turned into the Big Bang Theory," said pollster Nik Nanos.

As of the beginning of the campaign, Parliament looked like this:

• Conservatives: 143 seats
• Liberals: 77 seats
• NDP: 47 seats
• Bloc Quebecois: 36 seats

There were also two independents and three vacant seats.

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民主的力量。

简自易

回复  心向真善美


    其实layton的能力不亚于harper。
  这次大选可看作加拿大政治走向的分水岭，今后的斗争就是左右对决， 日后从极右转向左倾的可能性还是存在的（Ndp收获了百席左右）。
northyork51 发表于 2011-5-2 23:10

我感到哈勃看得对，而奥巴马有点昏头昏脑。

林顿的政治经验丰富、比哈勃更能折腾。

华荣

应该是好结果。

下一轮，如果保守党干得好，还可以继续执政。如果干得不好，就把它赶下台。

华荣

将来加拿大可能分为左右两党。

northyork51

回复 4# 心向真善美


    其实layton的能力不亚于harper。
  这次大选可看作加拿大政治走向的分水岭，今后的斗争就是左右对决， 日后从极右转向左倾的可能性还是存在的（Ndp收获了百席左右）。

简自易

客观地说：哈勃的领导才干比较强，哈勃比较可能是加拿大有史以来屈指可数的杰出总理之一，尽管比较年轻。

Y_2OO9

应该是好结果。

华荣

大多数加拿大人现在还是较信任保守党。