Party’s rise in popularity appears to be disrupting island’s old Liberal-Progressive Conservative voting patterns
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Mr. Martin’s results, counted weekly, have been so consistently close to the final tally – usually within three percentage points – that the barber poll has become a bit of a bellwether.There is less than one week to go before the provincial election, the most hotly anticipated in recent history for its potential to deliver a dramatic departure from traditional red-or-blue island politics.
Next Tuesday’s ballot will also include a question on electoral reform -- voters will be asked to decide whether the province should move from the traditional first-past-the-post voting system to mixed member proportional representation, which theAnd there is the possibility that, for the first time since the 1800s, the island will end up with a minority government.
In spite of the fact that much of this was achieved under the leadership of Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan, the desire for new leadership is palpable. “I haven’t voted for a couple of elections because I just didn’t know what to do,” Mr. Guitard said. “People vote Liberal because they’re tired of Conservative and then the reverse. It’s a vicious circle, the red and the blue. It’s always the same,” he told Mr. Bevan-Baker, who held open the screen door.Mr. Guitard grinned and, with an upward turn of the thumb, agreed to give the Greens his vote.
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