ciroccoj | Oct. 11th, 2007

Party	Elected	Vote Share
Liberal	71	42.19%
Conservative	26	31.67%
New Democrat	10	16.79%
Green	0	8.01%
Other	0	1.34%

In related news:

Ontario voter turnout a record low: Apparently, only 52.6% of us bothered to vote yesterday. We suck.
Green party scores 8 per cent of vote: They didn't win a single seat, but their vote percentage more than doubled since last election. Go us! There was even the possibility of them winning a seat, though sadly, that didn't happen. They did come really, really close, though.
Ontario rejects electoral reform in referendum: We turned down mixed member proportional and opted to remain with first-past-the-post, so that although 8% of us voted Green, not a single Green seat was won, and although 31.67% voted Conservative, they have only 24% of the seats.

There's more out there on how the NDP gained in popular vote, and how Conservative leader John Tory lost in his own riding, but I'm all politicked out.

Although, re. John Tory losing in his own riding: it's being widely concluded that Tory lost in large part because he promised publicly funded religious schools, which alarmed most voters and was soundly rejected by all three other parties. And that reminded me of something else the poor new home schooling mom with the foot-and-mouth condition said the other day.

She started talking about the election (because hey, everyone knows that talking politics is a nice, safe way to enter into a social group) and voiced her very adamant opinion on the coming election. And the issue that appeared to incense her the most was this "insane" promise by the Conservatives to fund religious schools. So, OK, she started by offending any Conservative moms (granted, there are few who home school) in the group, as well as insane moms (of which there are many, or they wouldn't home school).

Then she followed up by saying what a lot of people were saying during the campaign: that she partially agreed with Tory on the issue. He promised to fund Jewish, Muslim, etc schools as a way of ending discrimination against religious minorities and making them on par with the Catholics, since Ontario has always publicly funded Catholic school boards. And many folks were saying that although he was right on the discrimination thing, the right thing to do would be to end funding for the Catholic schools as well.

Because everyone knows that another safe way of breaking into a new social group is talking religion. Ouch.

I'm kinda curious as to whether she'll show up at the next drop-in. I wonder if we'll get to hear her views on global warming, homosexuality, Afghanistan, and stem cell research. Something tells me we will :)