New Brunswick Election

[adamuptownsj]

Final filing update. Deadline Wednesday at 2 PM.

• PCs join Liberals with a full slate of 49.
• Greens at 45, missing only Belle-Baie-Belledune, Caraquet, and both Edmundston seats.
• NDP stalled out. Only 27 nominees. No idea if they break last election's 33.
• Alliance also stalled at just 13, which is enough for them to survive to the next cycle.
• Libertarians amazingly clipped past Alliance with 14.
• Social Justice and Consensus each have one.
• Three independents have qualified.

9 ridings have 5 candidates, 4 ridings have 6, and 1 (St. Croix) has 7. Caraquet is the only 2-candidate riding.

[TitleRequired]

Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

Final filing update. Deadline Wednesday at 2 PM.

• PCs join Liberals with a full slate of 49.
• Greens at 45, missing only Belle-Baie-Belledune, Caraquet, and both Edmundston seats.
• NDP stalled out. Only 27 nominees. No idea if they break last election's 33.
• Alliance also stalled at just 13, which is enough for them to survive to the next cycle.
• Libertarians amazingly clipped past Alliance with 14.
• Social Justice and Consensus each have one.
• Three independents have qualified.

9 ridings have 5 candidates, 4 ridings have 6, and 1 (St. Croix) has 7. Caraquet is the only 2-candidate riding.

Where do you see that? PCs missing from the list on the electionsnb website.

[adamuptownsj]

Originally Posted by TitleRequired

Where do you see that? PCs missing from the list on the electionsnb website.

Wikipedia, TBH. Elections NB is closed today so they'll likely appear tomorrow, along with some of the Greens and Libertarians.

[TitleRequired]

Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

Wikipedia, TBH. Elections NB is closed today so they'll likely appear tomorrow, along with some of the Greens and Libertarians.

Ahhh.

A crux for the smaller parties is to get the signatures and addresses of twenty people that live in the riding. Without that, the returning office just bounces you until you get them; with a hard deadline of 2pm on nomination day.

The name and address HAS to match the information in the elections NB database. For established parties with members that have lived at the same address for decades it is a non issue. For smaller parties with members that might have moved 2-3 times since the last election it can be problematic. Which is why the 2pm deadline is so important. After 2pm, if your paperwork doesn't line up, your sol.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

Final filing update. Deadline Wednesday at 2 PM.

• PCs join Liberals with a full slate of 49.
• Greens at 45, missing only Belle-Baie-Belledune, Caraquet, and both Edmundston seats.
• NDP stalled out. Only 27 nominees. No idea if they break last election's 33.
• Alliance also stalled at just 13, which is enough for them to survive to the next cycle.
• Libertarians amazingly clipped past Alliance with 14.
• Social Justice and Consensus each have one.
• Three independents have qualified.

9 ridings have 5 candidates, 4 ridings have 6, and 1 (St. Croix) has 7. Caraquet is the only 2-candidate riding.

How can you call yourself the Consensus Party if you only have one candidate???

[adamuptownsj]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

How can you call yourself the Consensus Party if you only have one candidate???

The weird thing is, I don't think the party 'leadership' of either of these have filed yet. So odd. KISS 2.

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

Has Higgs done a Q&A, like ever?


Holt does them quite regularly. I wonder if she’ll keep them up if she wins?

[sailor734]

Originally Posted by gtsoc

The conservative candidate for SJ Lancaster is a big Tik tok star

https://www.reddit.com/r/newbrunswic...a/s/rcQkRtire3

Mainstream media finally caught up to social media on this story (TJ this morning).....only took about 10 days

I'm a little surprised they chose to run the story. Seems a bit of a nothing burger to me.

https://tj.news/new-brunswick/candid...me-voters-prof

[TitleRequired]

Deadline of 2pm approaching.

PC not yet listed for:
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All filled.

[TitleRequired]

All New Brunswickers deserve equal access to critical digital infrastructure and connectivity. #TeamHolt is committed to improving cell phone coverage and high-speed internet in the province to ensure access to digital healthcare, education, and economic development opportunities.

Has the liberal party heard of starlink?

[adamuptownsj]

Greens still missing 4? Surprising.

[TitleRequired]

Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

Greens still missing 4? Surprising.

The nomination procedure is pretty strict. 20 people from the riding, etc....

If you leave it to the last day, you don't leave time to recuperate from any errors. This is why I found that the PCs waiting until today was a little strange; its a lack of discipline for something that other candidates did over a week ago.

*bing* times up!

[TitleRequired]

Originally Posted by TitleRequired

All New Brunswickers deserve equal access to critical digital infrastructure and connectivity. #TeamHolt is committed to improving cell phone coverage and high-speed internet in the province to ensure access to digital healthcare, education, and economic development opportunities.

Has the liberal party heard of starlink?

“We certainly know that there are 10,000 homes in New Brunswick that don’t have access to high-speed internet,” Holt said during a campaign stop.

CA$140/mo for service and CA$499 for hardware according to starlink. Has been as low as 199 for hardware, for a refurbished unit.

On the starlink website, for CA$596.85 including tax you can get online. Point the dishy and go.

Is the taxpayer responsible for that 600$ now?

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

Originally Posted by TitleRequired

“We certainly know that there are 10,000 homes in New Brunswick that don’t have access to high-speed internet,” Holt said during a campaign stop.

CA$140/mo for service and CA$499 for hardware according to starlink. Has been as low as 199 for hardware, for a refurbished unit.

On the starlink website, for CA$596.85 including tax you can get online. Point the dishy and go.

Is the taxpayer responsible for that 600$ now?

Wouldn’t be that ridiculous… high speed internet should be seen as a human right basically lol

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

The NB PC’s are running some seriously low quality candidates.

How thick does on have to be to make this comparison?

It’s more stupid than it is offensive, which hurts the PC party even more.

Link to article:

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7338617


Links to Faytene making even more ignorant and comparisons between residential schools and contemporary “parental rights”:

https://x.com/dondarlingSJ/status/18...r=dondarlingSJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6MjIgS3z5g&t=855s

All I can say is… YIKES

[ChampduLarge]

This is not a party that deserves to be in power. The last thing NB needs is four years of culture wars. These people are discouraging.

[TitleRequired]

Originally Posted by ChampduLarge

This is not a party that deserves to be in power. The last thing NB needs is four years of culture wars. These people are discouraging.

And disenfranchise a block of voters that might hold an alternate views than your own?

[adamuptownsj]

After the deadline, looks like

PCs 49
Liberals 49
Greens 46 (got a last-minute candidate in Madawaska Les Lacs-Edmundston)
NDP 23 (I guess a few of their last minute guys failed to submit)
Libertarians 18 which is a jump of 4 from Tuesday morning
Alliance 13
Consensus 3 which surprises me as I thought this was a one-man show
Social Justice 2
Independents 4

I presume the PC candidates who filed Tuesday were party stalwarts who are doing their duty (losing a safe Liberal seat to ensure a full slate) which would assure paperwork and signatures would be in order. Liberals have done the same in the past.

Very surprised the Greens couldn't pull this together too. NDP are cooked. Alliance is cooked. Libertarians turn in a respectable performance.

Of the independents, none very interesting, excluding the literally insane perennial candidate David Raymond Amos in Quispamsis.

Ridings by number of candidates
2 have 2 candidates only: Hautes-Terres-Nepisguit and Caraquet, both of which are safe Liberal no matter what.
11 have 3
18 have 4
11 have 5
6 have 6
1 riding, St Croix, has seven: PC-L-G-PA-NDP-Ltn-Ind.

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

After the deadline, looks like

PCs 49
Liberals 49
Greens 46 (got a last-minute candidate in Madawaska Les Lacs-Edmundston)
NDP 23 (I guess a few of their last minute guys failed to submit)
Libertarians 18 which is a jump of 4 from Tuesday morning
Alliance 13
Consensus 3 which surprises me as I thought this was a one-man show
Social Justice 2
Independents 4

I presume the PC candidates who filed Tuesday were party stalwarts who are doing their duty (losing a safe Liberal seat to ensure a full slate) which would assure paperwork and signatures would be in order. Liberals have done the same in the past.

Very surprised the Greens couldn't pull this together too. NDP are cooked. Alliance is cooked. Libertarians turn in a respectable performance.

Of the independents, none very interesting, excluding the literally insane perennial candidate David Raymond Amos in Quispamsis.

Ridings by number of candidates
2 have 2 candidates only: Hautes-Terres-Nepisguit and Caraquet, both of which are safe Liberal no matter what.

11 have 3
18 have 4
11 have 5
6 have 6
1 riding, St Croix, has seven: PC-L-G-PA-NDP-Ltn-Ind.

What makes him so insane? Does he support amalgamation with Saint John… or something even crazier?

[TitleRequired]

Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

After the deadline, looks like

PCs 49
Liberals 49
Greens 46 (got a last-minute candidate in Madawaska Les Lacs-Edmundston)
NDP 23 (I guess a few of their last minute guys failed to submit)
Libertarians 18 which is a jump of 4 from Tuesday morning
Alliance 13
Consensus 3 which surprises me as I thought this was a one-man show
Social Justice 2
Independents 4

I presume the PC candidates who filed Tuesday were party stalwarts who are doing their duty (losing a safe Liberal seat to ensure a full slate) which would assure paperwork and signatures would be in order. Liberals have done the same in the past.

Very surprised the Greens couldn't pull this together too. NDP are cooked. Alliance is cooked. Libertarians turn in a respectable performance.

Of the independents, none very interesting, excluding the literally insane perennial candidate David Raymond Amos in Quispamsis.

Ridings by number of candidates
2 have 2 candidates only: Hautes-Terres-Nepisguit and Caraquet, both of which are safe Liberal no matter what.
11 have 3
18 have 4
11 have 5
6 have 6
1 riding, St Croix, has seven: PC-L-G-PA-NDP-Ltn-Ind.

The only "pure" election are the two candidate ones. Multicandidate elections are always a compromise.

In Portland Simonds I don't see any huge relative strength of the NDP and Green; but the three left leaning candidates against one wouldn't help Dornan.

Greens + NDP vote the last go around was 647 out of 5775 votes, or 11% with less than strong candidates with no visibility.

In a two way race these would naturally move over to Dornan, but the paradox of choice could impart a nail-biter come poll closing.