Article en français (La Presse)
The Liberals under Susan Holt have won the majority of seats in the New Brunswick election.
At 9 p.m., with 80 per cent of the polls reporting, the Liberals were leading 31 ridings, the Progressive Conservatives were leading in 16 and the Greens were leading in two ridings.
Just before 9 p.m., CBC projected wins for Holt and Green Party Leader David Coon, who both ran for Fredericton seats, but PC Leader Blaine Higgs lost his Quispamsis riding to Liberal Aaron Kennedy.
I really wish the Greens would push the Libs hard on electoral reform. It’s wildly undemocratic that we have a riding (Riverview) where the Cons won with ~39% of the vote, when the Libs had ~34% and the Greens had ~25%.
You’re pointing the finger at the wrong people. It’s not the greens who are the barrier to reform. They don’t have any leverage due to the nb liberals winning a majority of the seats. Let’s blame anyone else but the actual ones blocking reform historically.
The nb liberals canceled the 2008 proposed mixed-member proportional referendum (however electoral reform rarely succeeds this way) when they won the election.
It’s the liberals who need to do what’s right. However those who benefit from first-past-the-post are reluctant to change the system unless their party is deeply unpopular and is about to be wiped forever from politics.
You need to blame the right people. It’s always the 2 big parties responsible for sabotaging electoral reform.