Canadian Party Candidates and (Fringe Parties)

[Jersay]

The Parties of Canada and the number of Canadidates they have fielded.

Liberal Paul Martin 307
Conservative Stephen Harper 308
Bloc Québécois Gilles Duceppe 75
New Democratic Jack Layton 308
Green Jim Harris 305 - -
Marxist-Leninist Sandra L. Smith 70 - -
Christian Heritage Ron Gray 41 - -
Canadian Action Connie Fogal 27 - -
Progressive Canadian Tracy Parsons 24 - -
Communist Miguel Figueroa 21 - -
Marijuana Blair Longley 18 - -
Libertarian Jean-Serge Brisson 7 - -
First Peoples National Barbara Wardlaw 3 * - * *
Western Block Doug Christie 2 * - * *
Animal Alliance Liz White 1 * - * *

* Means running in first election.
Independent 67 - 4

 

[Finder]

"Communist Miguel Figueroa 21"
I usto know Miguel Figueroa... good guy, and a nice guy. His only problem is he a communist. *shrugs* Funny if you look at the communist parties in Canada, and the two which run, the M-L Party and the Communist party, the Communist party runs mostly on democratic socialist princibles. But of course you would just have to guess that they would have a hidden agenda of more orthadox Marxist policy once they actually got in.

Well they won't get in and they will never again get a seat in parliment so... well unless this changes already spent too much time on them. lol

 

[FiveParadox]

Never Say Never!

Never say never!

Parties have come and gone from the House of Commons; for example, the Social Credit Party, or the Anti-Confederate Party, or the Bloc populaire canadien.

 

[Finder]

Lets just say the communist party has ever elected one MP, and that was under its legal name in the 40's. Since then it's been down hill for them. I think that was there moment in the sun. lol. If I remember right it was Fred Rose (not even his real name).

Also I just noticed only 307 canidates fielded for the Liberals. What riding are they not running in. or was that a mistake?

 

[Jersay]

Nope, all registration papers were passed either lyesterday or the day before, so the Libs are not running a candidate somewhere.

If propotional representation came to Ottawa, some of these parties that get .70% of the vote or like the Green will be able to pick up seats. So if reform is passed you might see more parties finally get a representative into the house of commons.

 

[Finder]

Nope, all registration papers were passed either lyesterday or the day before, so the Libs are not running a candidate somewhere.

If propotional representation came to Ottawa, some of these parties that get .70% of the vote or like the Green will be able to pick up seats. So if reform is passed you might see more parties finally get a representative into the house of commons.

ummm, I think there's nothing in the works for pure PR. What I've been hearing is a mix of PR with FPTP. As in we elect 200 or more MP's the old way with about 100 PR seats. That would mean it would be 1% to get a seat if those seats are pure PR. But in most nations you need to hit 4-5% in order to gain seats at all. Such as in Germany I believe the current number is 5%. So Fringe parties would stay the same unless they got the support. Only the Green party would gain a few seats as they should.

Also If the PR part of the election was done by the provinces for those PR seats it would eliminate the fringe as well.

If those things don't kill them, the fact that the Communist vote is already split would. =-D

I think any kind of electoral reform we get will only benifit the current parties in the house and possibly the Green party. It's very unlikely any other party would gain seats.

 

[Finder]

BTW does anyone know where the Liberals arn't running. Thats really odd. Since even in a riding they won't win they'd most likely have someone interested in running for the ruling party.

 

[FiveParadox]

The list of candidates running for the Liberal Party of Canada can be found by clicking here (links to the Liberal.ca Web site); they are, in fact, running candidates in all 308 electoral districts of Canada.

 

[Finder]

The list of candidates running for the Liberal Party of Canada can be found by clicking here (links to the Liberal.ca Web site); they are, in fact, running candidates in all 308 electoral districts of Canada.

thanks. I thought there would be 308. I mean if one was empty who wouldn't run under the Liberal banner for them. *shrugs*. I mean there going to get a good amount of votes in any riding and with some races split 3-5 ways it's pretty much a coin flip in getting in.