Congrats to Pierre poilievre, who won his new seat in Alberta, beating over 200 registered candidates in the riding.
This unusual situation was caused by an electoral reform campaign called the longest ballot, which sought to make a point about first past the post voting systems by messing with the election process. This is a new record for number of candidates, the previous record being set in poilievres Carlton riding in the last federal election at 90 names on the ballot.
Elections Canada chose to use a write-in voting campaign because the resulting ballot would have been 1.5 meters (1.5 yards for Americans) long.
Damien C. Kurek, the Member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot since 2019, stepped down to make his seat available for Pierre Poilievre’s return to the House of Commons. That seemed like a deeply honorable move to me, and we should keep that guy's name in mind.
This unusual situation was caused by an electoral reform campaign called the longest ballot, which sought to make a point about first past the post voting systems by messing with the election process. This is a new record for number of candidates, the previous record being set in poilievres Carlton riding in the last federal election at 90 names on the ballot.
Elections Canada chose to use a write-in voting campaign because the resulting ballot would have been 1.5 meters (1.5 yards for Americans) long.
Damien C. Kurek, the Member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot since 2019, stepped down to make his seat available for Pierre Poilievre’s return to the House of Commons. That seemed like a deeply honorable move to me, and we should keep that guy's name in mind.
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