XPost: can.politics, ab.politics   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   On 11/18/2014 9:30 AM, Clyde Armstrong wrote:   
   > By= elections usually favor the party (parties) out of power. They offer an   
   > opportunity for voters to poke at the powerful government. So liberals should   
   > not take any solace for their increase in popular vote in the Oshawa-Whitby   
   riding.   
   >   
   > Actually it shows that the liberal leader Trudeau has not made much of an   
   oppression even in Liberal Ontario. The overwhelming Tory win in Alberta again   
   > shows that there is still a very deep East-West division in the nation.   
   >   
   > Harper's star performance in rebuking Russia's Putin at the Australian G-20   
   > conference gained him more international status and no doubt helped his   
   party in the two by-elections.   
      
   Hmmm . . .  that's not where smarter people than you are going with the results   
   of these two byelections:   
      
   With two-thirds of the polls reporting, Perkins, a high-profile, former   
   two-term Whitby mayor, has taken 48% of the vote — just six points ahead of   
   political newcomer Caesar-Chavannes.   
      
   The close result, despite an all-out push by the Conservatives, suggests the   
   resurgent Liberals may give the ruling party a run for its money in the crucial   
   suburban ridings around Toronto — a key battleground in next year’s general   
   election.   
   ______________   
      
   In Yellowhead, Tory candidate Jim Eglinski, a former RCMP officer and former   
   mayor of Fort St. John, has captured 64% of the vote, a commanding lead with   
   just over half of the polls reporting.   
      
   Still, the Conservative margin of victory is shaping up to be narrower than   
   2011 when Rob Merrifield won the riding with a whopping 77% of the vote.   
      
   The Liberal share of the vote has more than quintupled over the dismal 3% the   
   party won in 2011, when it finished fourth behind the NDP and Greens.   
      
   The NDP is down slightly from its 13% share in 2011.   
      
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