VICTORY!!
Well 485 votes seems to be the final call which is .77% of the vote and good enough for a fifth place out of six. Pretty damn good if you ask me- I tooled my Dad’s 1975 Ontario provincial total of 204 when he was running as a Libertarian candidate. It just goes to show how popular the Marijuana Party is as a fringe party. We had really good results around the country last night but Ed cleaned up in Nunavut by beating the Green Party and getting 8% of the vote.
Well 485 votes seems to be the final call which is .77% of the vote and good enough for a fifth place out of six. Pretty damn good if you ask me- I tooled my Dad’s 1975 Ontario provincial total of 204 when he was running as a Libertarian candidate. It just goes to show how popular the Marijuana Party is as a fringe party. We had really good results around the country last night but Ed cleaned up in Nunavut by beating the Green Party and getting 8% of the vote.
UPDATE: Student Vote Results for Peterborough:
NDP: 1283
CPC: 1188
MARIJUANA PARTY: 782
LPC: 711
GPC: 702
BOB: 120
And I won the vote at Kenner and got several strong second and third places in other schools.
People would not have thought about this issue if we were not around. 60,000 people would not have seen the word Marijuana on the ballot. By simply running a candidate in every riding and presenting another choice we can become even more significant. This is not the end by rather the beginnings of the Marijuana Party in Peterborough. I'm planning to set up a riding association and possibly looking into operating a compassion club. From talking to people, Peterborough could really use one. I have been thinking of running in a student union election- our student movement needs action if we are to succeed in stopping the Lib/Con slashing of our education funding.
And I'll recommend that everybody should run for parliament- voting for yourself is perhaps the most satisfying thing ever.
You get a lot of respect for your fellow candidates as well. I was impressed by Linda's (NDP) results- an over 6% jump with over 5000 more votes. I was observing a poll counting for the area around London, Aylmer and George- Linda got 152, Diane- 66, Dean- 30, Brent 25, ME- 3 and Bob grabbed one. Brent (GPC) got 3162 votes which missed his 2004 total by 20 though that is still a really good showing. Too bad for Diane (LPC) but I guess it is Dean's (CPC) time to shine. Well congrats to him and hope he represents Peterborough well in Ottawa. I live in hope that he will represent the students and marijuana users as well as he will represent suburban homeowners. And Bob did a great job too- it’s even harder for independents because they have no party structure to help them out and to attract voters. If I wasn't running then I would have voted Bob and his dedication to direct and participatory democracy.
And a big big thanks to everybody who voted and everybody who contacted me it’s been a great time but I’m glad this election is over
People would not have thought about this issue if we were not around. 60,000 people would not have seen the word Marijuana on the ballot. By simply running a candidate in every riding and presenting another choice we can become even more significant. This is not the end by rather the beginnings of the Marijuana Party in Peterborough. I'm planning to set up a riding association and possibly looking into operating a compassion club. From talking to people, Peterborough could really use one. I have been thinking of running in a student union election- our student movement needs action if we are to succeed in stopping the Lib/Con slashing of our education funding.
And I'll recommend that everybody should run for parliament- voting for yourself is perhaps the most satisfying thing ever.
You get a lot of respect for your fellow candidates as well. I was impressed by Linda's (NDP) results- an over 6% jump with over 5000 more votes. I was observing a poll counting for the area around London, Aylmer and George- Linda got 152, Diane- 66, Dean- 30, Brent 25, ME- 3 and Bob grabbed one. Brent (GPC) got 3162 votes which missed his 2004 total by 20 though that is still a really good showing. Too bad for Diane (LPC) but I guess it is Dean's (CPC) time to shine. Well congrats to him and hope he represents Peterborough well in Ottawa. I live in hope that he will represent the students and marijuana users as well as he will represent suburban homeowners. And Bob did a great job too- it’s even harder for independents because they have no party structure to help them out and to attract voters. If I wasn't running then I would have voted Bob and his dedication to direct and participatory democracy.
And a big big thanks to everybody who voted and everybody who contacted me it’s been a great time but I’m glad this election is over
posted by Aiden-PTBO-Marijuana @ 6:46 AM
3 Comments:
Haha,
gratualations man, greetings from Germany (Lennart Mertens aka Lenny), norman told me about ur political interests :)
nice to see u doing this!
ciao
Lenny M.
Hello once again, its Tyler's freind,
I must say congrats on an impressive vote, 485 is actaul;ly very impressive, and I meanin all sincerity, as it must be hard to hear it from a Conservative, but once again congrats. Keep fighting the good fight, which is keeping votes away from the damn Liberals. From Ottawa to Peterborough, 'light one up, as you did well'
A solid performance Aiden I must say. I was choked when they didn't put your name up on CBC last night when they were showing your riding. Hope you had a good one, and I'm sure your looking forward to a bit of a break from the madness.
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