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1) No Conservative is running in the riding of Portneuf-Jacques Cartier. This is due to the incumbant (independant Andre Arthur) who is expected to win, and is a "closet Conservative".
2) Brian Sarwer-Foner is running for the Green Party in Mount Royal (Montreal). He is related to (uncle of?) Jeff Sarwer.
3) Gaston and Jacques Gourde - are they related? They are both running in Lotbiniere.
4) Louis and Pierre Lacroix are running in Trois-Rivieres.
5) Claude and Sylvio Morin are running in Beauce.
6) Pierre and Sylvie Lemieux are running in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.
7) Doug and Peter Ferguson are running in London West.
8) Willowdale and Acadie-Bathurst have only 3 candidates. All other ridings have at least 4.
9) The Green Party candidate in York South-Weston is named Sonny Day.
10) The Green Party candidate in York West is named Unblind Kheper Keseb Efekh Tibbin.
No independents. I'm in Helena Guergis's riding and I doubt she can win it. And I think the ndp surge and strategic voting may defeat André Arthur in Quebec.
I'm guessing that in some ridings, the NDP will not be able to get out enough votes. So actually my prediction is they end up more around 25% support rather than the 28-30 they've been polling at.
The other question is will that flip any Liberal ridings to Conservative due to vote splitting? Most flippable "Liberal" seats are actually already in Conservative hands though, for example Kitchener Center and Kitchener-Waterloo to name two local to me.
Will there be a prize for a winner ? 50 CFC points, for example ?
My prediction:
Conservative Party Parti Conservateur 154
Liberal Party Parti Liberal 67
N.D.P. N.P.D. 56
Bloc Quebecois 31
Green 0
Independent 0
Total 308
Hi Victor,
I will pay for a $50 gift certificate to Strategy Games (I pay from my pocket and not Strategy Games).
So here is the criteria:
1 - You must post here before 9:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time
2 - Everyone starts with 100 points
3 - If you have the parties listed in order of seats won (top 4 parties only) you are still in the race otherwise you are eliminated. -100
4 - If you are within 3 seats of the winning number for a party you lose no points, otherwise you lose 1 point for every seat difference. (So if you say a party will get 100 seats and they get 97...you lose 0 points...if they get 96 seats...you lose 4 points)
5 - For every exact number you pick for a party (top 4 parties) you get 5 bonus points and for Green and Independent....you get 2 bonus points if you get the exact number.
I have no idea how much sense this makes as I just dreamed this up on the fly. On the otherhand, it is my $50 so I can spend it as I want :) and yes...I can win my own prize :) :)
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