UPDATE: Thanks to FleetAdmiralJ for taking over with diary #3 on our election --
here. Please recommend that diary up and let's keep this going.
Official results site -- (yes, this is Canada, we have official everything). Elections Canada national results.
You can set it to refresh every 90 seconds if you want.
Last update, per them:(Not final numbers as of yet, just leading. Magic number of seats for majority: 155. Percentage is popular vote.)
Con. 124 - 36.6%
Lib. 102 - 30.4%
Bloc 50 - 10.3%
N.D.P. 31 - 17.4%
Other 1 - 5.5%
Total 308 (of 308)
CBC News is calling it -- minority Conservative government.
I voted Liberal myself. Even though since I was a child, I've had NDP tattooed on my bum. Really. (Not literally.) Basically, it's a strategic vote... NDP hasn't a chance in the riding in which I live, which is Parry-Sound Muskoka, heart of Toronto cottage country.
UPDATE: Occurs to me that American readers might be confused by some of the references to red & blue here... in Canada it's the other way around from down there. Blue is right wing (Conservatives) and red is more left (Liberals). These have been the colours for longer than I've been alive.
UPDATE: Check out this heartfelt letter to all Canadian voters by science fiction writer and US ex-pat Spider Robinson. What's it all about, in his mind? Kindness.
UPDATE: I know Jack Layton (NDP leader) -- I was in a class he taught on city politics when I was in university for journalism, some time back around the Paleolithic. He had a bit of the car salesman about him, but I learned not to be fooled by that -- he is a good guy. But then... NDPers are always good guys... complete with the "finishing last" part...
So I feel plenty guilty not voting for his party... and yet I know that I am voting for him in a way. By voting against the party polling strongest, I am helping produce a minority... which puts the NDP in the balance of power position. Historically this has produced many good things for Canada.