The Yukon Votes - Another Case of Misrepresentation
Once again, we have a provincial election that takes the popular vote, flips it around, and delivers a majority government.
Popular vote:
And the seat totals;
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Elizabeth May of the North?
The Green Party might just strike gold today.
While Elizabeth May’s election-day triumph may have been slightly overlooked due to the NDP’s surprising assent to the opposition benches, the Green movement in Canada seems to have stalled.
Tonight, Kristina Calhoun might change that.
Don’t feel too bad if you’ve never heard of the interim leader of the Yukon Green Party. She may, however, be the first surprise come-from-behind darkhorse winner in this spate of relatively paint-by-numbers provincial elections.
In fact, this past May showed the Yukon’s true colours - with 19% of the territory voting for the federal Green Party.
The limited polling being done in advance of the territory’s election puts the fledgling territorial party at between 2% and 7%. Not bad for a party that was just registered in the territory and is only fielding two candidates (one of them is Calhoun herself.)
And while the other candidate is running in strong conservative country (the territorial counterpart to the Tories goes by the Yukon Party) Calhoun is running in Riverdale North where, believe or not, she has a shot.
