looks like the close ridings in NS/NB are true battlegrounds. tory incumbents more or less holding on but no major shocks for the liberals, mostly just toss up seats.
Sean Fraser trailing is really the only eyebrow-raiser to date, but it's very close, and being Minister of Housing and Infrastructure might've made him uniquely vulnerable.
Almost 25% of polls reporting and the pop vote is diverging slightly. The CPC dropping a point and the LPC gain a point. Still want to know how much of the results are from today and how much is advanced polling (if there isn’t much advanced yet the gap could still grow)
CBC said each polling station can decide whether to count the advance votes before or after the election day votes. made it sound like they'd be batched, either way. but we won't know what each poll has chosen, I guess.
some of them we know, like Carleton got permission to count the advance vote 6 hours early because of their long ballots, and Gaspesie has returned results before their polls closed, which means those must be advance votes.
I had heard advance polls were being counted early across all the tidings but I guess that was incorrect. So that makes sense that smaller, rural polling stations would come in first since they typically have less to count than the more urban ridings.
yes, the ballot dumps will be obvious. some of the closer NB/NS races are worth watching to see what happens if the advance vote is LPC-leaning as CBC has suggested it is (not clear how they inferred that?)
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looks like the close ridings in NS/NB are true battlegrounds. tory incumbents more or less holding on but no major shocks for the liberals, mostly just toss up seats.