I mean I voted but I live in Alberta and don't live in Calgary or Edmonton. Tell me my vote mattered.
Here's a link to the results https://globalnews.ca/news/11130642/canada-election-2025-results-leduc-wetaskiwin/
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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That vote increases funding to the area for progressive outreach and causes. You won't change the entire province with a wole new order but you are part of showing that Alberta isn't a lost cause to the left.
Seriously, this shows left wing lobbiests, charities, politicians, etc. That they can do something in the province. In the end all it may mean is easier access to insulin pumps or less cuts to medical services but that definitly matters.
It's easy to look at the big picture and grow hostile but your vote does matter.
If you voted, it mattered
How many people didn't vote in those counties? Did they not vote because they were made believe they got no voice or because they would've voted republican but didn't think they were needed?
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If somebody tells you voting is pointless, they are voting for somebody you wouldn't vote for.
I don't really think that's the case. If you live in an exceptionally partisan area then there's little impact to voting.
That depends on your voting system.
Right, but this is a Canadian community about the recent Canadian election. The voting system is assumed.
In my riding, if you only had the option of liberal or conservative and a 100% turnout we would still have elected the same blue brick for the 4th time.
Usually this just means I get to vote for whatever party I like the platform enough of/like the leader.
I mean we've got the same system in the UK tbh.
It's shite, and most of the time you can get a donkey in power if you stick the right colour rosette on it, but last election we did see seats change power that had been held for a century.
I'm not really prepared to shoot anybody to get change. Voting is all we've got.
Any time someone claims "my one vote doesn't matter" I reply with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results
Yes, there are a lot of elections that are decided by a very small number of votes.
As the saying goes: "The only wasted vote is the one left uncast."
And I'll reply with this which is .uch more likely. https://globalnews.ca/news/11130642/canada-election-2025-results-leduc-wetaskiwin/
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I vote in every election but it sure as hell never feels like my vote does anything at all or is even recorded.
TBH i don't think there's a way to vote our way out of a lot of our issues.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
~ Emma Goldman
Incidentally, a lot of US districts have made voting increasingly difficult to the point of illegality.
But I rarely see Votey types grapple with that fact. They either dismiss the disenfranchised as lazy/stupid or ignore this cohort entirely.
Canada out there making us feel jealous with their "multiple parties" and "meaningful votes"
I'm worried our multiple parties could disappear after this election :( I understand why it happened but I hope the trend doesn't continue to a two party liberal vs conservative system in Canada
The Bloc isn't going anywhere and the NDP will likely gain seats back next election with a fresh leader, especially if they pick a charismatic one.
Ya I don't think it will. Also remember we started with a two-party system. Political parties come and go.
Keep dreaming. There's only 2 parties that matter, Nazis and thieves. Everybody else Is just cosplaying
The Dems threw out powerful elected officials like Cuomo and Franken.
Trump's GOP just went to the mat for an actual human trafficker, Andrew Tate.
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Yeah, so the Conservatives won with like 80% in my riding. I voted, but I also wondered why while doing it. Man, I wish we had proportional rep.
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