5th CMHoC General Election
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The 5th CMHoC General Election will take place on February 19, 2020 to elect the 338 members of the CMHoC's 5th model parliament. The writs of the election were dropped on February 10, 2020 by the Right Honourable thehowlinggreywolf in accordance with usual election rules.
The election will see Nathan Cullen's New Democratic Party fight to retain their majority government they won in the 4th General election. Challenging the government will be the Official Opposition party, the Conservatives led by Remy Lévesque, as well as the Labour Party (led by Paul Esterhazy), and the Liberal Party (led by Alexandre Chauvin) along with a host of other smaller parties. It is also the first election since the passage of bill C-24, Mixed Member Proportional Representation Act, changing the voting system from single member First-Past-the-Post to proportional representation.
Background
In the 4th General Election the Liberal Democratic Alliance, now the New Democratic Party, won a small majority of 175 seats against the Conservative party due to strong wins in Quebec, British Columbia and Toronto. The former government under the Conservatives, led by Alexandre Chauvin, fell to opposition winning just 121 seats, mostly concentrated in Western Canada and Southern Ontario. The only other seats won were by the Labour Party, who won 35 seats from downtown Montreal and Toronto, along with some other seats around Canada. After the election, Chauvin resigned from his role as party leader and was succeeded by Remy Lévesque. Chauvin would go on to form his own party just before the 5th General Election, the Liberal Party, which was a more moderate party then the Conservatives. Labour also had a change of leadership, when Paul Esterhazy took over from Dafydd McLaren-Shwartz.
Electoral Reform
Bill C-15
Results
Campaign
Slogans
Issues
Opinion Polls
Polling firm | Last day of polling | NDP | CPC | Lab. | LPC | BQ | P/FN | C | Other | Lead |
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CBC | February 15, 2020 | 40.6 | 32.8 | 3.4 | 19.8 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 7.8 | ||
CBC | February 9, 2020 | 37.8 | 29.8 | 2.3 | 22.8 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 8 |
Notes
^a Text for note a.Contested the 4th election as the Liberal Democratic Allience