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| MP for Macleod John Barlow C. Davis file photo |
Conservative candidate John Barlow has cruised to an expected and definitive victory in the Macleod by-election held yesterday, June 30.
The following statistics are from the Elections Canada results page, and represent 253 polls of 256 reporting (98.83 %) as of 1:30 am July 1, 2014.
Barlow received 68.8 % of the vote.
Barlow's closest competition came from Liberal Party Candidate Dustin Fuller. who received 16.9 % of the vote.
Green Party candidate Larry Ashmore received 5.8 % of the vote. New Democratic Party candidate Aileen Burke and Christian Heritage Party candidate David Reimer each received 4.3 % of the vote.
Voter turnout was low, with only 19.59 % valid votes cast out of 92,007 registered electors (which does not include electors who registered on election day). Again, those stats were with three polls left to report, but the percentages are indicative.
This was Barlow's first parliamentary run. He's probably got more than a year to make his first marks on the hill before the next general election
The next general federal election will be held on October 19, 2015 (unless the Governor General dissolves Parliament earlier). This provision was introduced in 2007.*
*www.parl.gc.ca
John Barlow gets the nod on a mighty mandate of 68.8% of 19.59% which is somewheres around 13.47% of the potential vote - quite the achievement. Another 'blue fence post with hair on top' gets stood up and voted in, and yet another stupefied Tory trundles uselessly off to Ottawa to rummage around in the closets on Parliament Hill looking for something meaningful to do - finding little other than polishing a knob or two, because nobody really gives a piece of crunchy snot for whatever goes on over here anyway - least of all our Darth Vader of a PM. Such is politics in Macleod - a sleepy little backwater in the otherwise great social experiment known as democracy. The depressing thing about apathy is that the more apathetic you get, the more apathetic you feel - and then the more apathetic you get. "Huh? - yawn - wuddever....."
ReplyDeleteAnd somewhere out on Hwy. 3 a crumpled election sign blows up against some bob wire - just another dried-up tumbleweed rolling across the desertified social contract of dear old Alberta, even as our corporate overlords pilfer what remains of our once well-coined kitty. To sleep, dear voters - perchance to dream. "Huh? - yawn - wuddever...."