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Contents 1 Canadian Politics 1.1 Federal Elections 1.2 Provincial Elections 1.2.1 List of New Brunswick general elections 1.2.2 Ontario Elections 1.3 Legislatures 1.4 Time in Office 1.5 Canadian Senate Seating Plan 2 My Edits 2.1 Something I did wrong 2.2 Something you have a question about 3 Misc 3.1 About my reverts 3.2 Peter Jenkins 3.3 My trivial edit 3.4 "Official status" in the U.S. 3.5 Unspecified source for Image:1947PEI.gif 3.6 Image:Nbelect2006map.GIF listed for deletion 3.7 The war is over

[edit] Canadian Politics

[edit] Federal Elections

[edit] Provincial Elections

For this article, I'm mildly concerned that there are results, even though this election hasn't taken place yet. I also left a note on the talk page. Amalas =^_^= 19:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of New Brunswick general elections

What was your source for the older results? I've looked all over the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer website, and I simply cannto find them... maybe I'm just missing something - if so, just give me a link. Tompw 22:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ontario Elections

What was your source for Ontario and other provinces(?) popular vote totals?Cutleron 02:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Legislatures

You don't have any of the historical seating plans of the House of Commons, do you? MS123

which images do you mean are incorrect? MS123

I don't believe that you are accurate. see: [1]. The speakers cover the rules for all parliaments. The opposition can sit close or far from the speaker. MS123

You may be perhaps correct, but it is speculatuve. Of course the rules mentioned in the passage I gave you applies to all parliaments, not just Ontario. I believe, perhaps, that we are both wrong. I have at some point in time, seen an image of the old house of commons. It had a total of seven rows on each side, which, would alter the seating plan dramatically. I have been considering contacting the Speaker of the House of Commons, in order to see if these documents exist. For the mean time, I point out that the images I made are only meant to a visual aid, and not a specific seating plan. (No matter how much I wish I could I could supply them) MS123

I would be happy to change the images, but I'm still not sure what the format of the old House of Commons looked like. I will wait and see untill you contact the MPP. MS123

[edit] Time in Office

You asked how I calculated Prime Minister’s time in office, here’s what I did for Lauier and Mulroney as examples (the first day in office doesn’t end up in the final number because July 11 1896 to July 11 1897 only counts as a year, not a year and a day):

• Lauier was in power from July 11 1896 to October 10 1911.
• First I added up full years: July 11 1896 to July 11 1911 = 15 years with two leap days (Feb 29 1904 and 1908) = 365x15+2 = 5477

• Remember that he took power after February, so he doesn't get 1896's leap day, and the leap year was skipped in 1900

• Then I added up full months: July 11 1911 to September 11 1911 = 31+31 = 62 days
• Then I added up the rest of the days: September 11 1911 to October 10 1911 = 29 days
• 5477+61+29 = 5568 days

• Mulroney was in power from September 17 1984 to June 26 1993.
• First I added up full years: September 17 1984 to September 17 1992 = 8 years with two leap days (Feb 29 1988 and 1992) = 365x8+2 = 2922
• Then I added up full months: September 17 1992 to June 17 1993 = 30+31+30+31+31+28+31+30+31 = 273 days
• Then I added up the rest of the days: June 17 1993 to June 26 1993 = 9 days
• 2922+273+9 = 3204 days

I hope that helps. Tell me if your numbers don't match mine. -arctic gnome 18:04, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Senate Seating Plan

You asked where I got the new seating plan. I work for the Usher of the Black Rod and the whips gave us the seating plan to release yesterday. The seating plan is valid for regular sittings, which will begin again as of Wednesday, April 5th, 2006. Hope this info helps, if you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask!--Smith87 01:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Edits

[edit] Something I did wrong

[edit] Something you have a question about

[edit] Misc

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• I really like your senate idea! SFrank85 03:05, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] About my reverts

Hi, I saw from your edit summaries that you were upset/angry about my reverts. I'm sorry about that! However, in the past, several people have announced the deaths of politicians and other well known people on Wikipedia as a "joke", and of course that's very painful if it turns out to be not true. I did a search in several news sources yesterday, both international and Canadian, and could not find any mention of this. That's why I decided to revert. It was nothing personal, just caution! --JoanneB 09:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Jenkins

He quit because he owed the Government money and he didn't want to pay up. Jenkins had a spat with Fentie and left the party.

MS123

[edit] My trivial edit

I was just clearing up the old link because it was supposed to be "stopped using," but someone had used the old link in order to that, (see? it doesn't make sense already). Thanks for warning me about the editting other people's user page though. I just thought that it would be a better idea to stop use of the old link. -- I am a minor edit 04:21, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Official status" in the U.S.

Pellaken, you asked on the Congress article page about official status for parties in the U. S. Congress.

They'd only need to get elected, but in the U.S., that's a big hurdle. (If I recall correctly, in Canada a party needs to hold a minimum number of seats in Commons to be considered "official.")

The predominance of the two-party system in the last century has meant that a third-party or independent member has very little influence in how Congress is organized. Senator Jim Jeffords, an independent, found it useful to caucus with (meet with, often work in concert with) the Democrats. Similarly, Representative Bernard Sanders of Vermont, a socialist, in 1991 became the first independent elected to the House of Representatives in 40 years, but his votes tend to track with those of liberal Democrats.

I believe the last Senator who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican was James Buckley of New York, who ran as a candidate of the Conservative Party of New York and was elected in 1970. Six years later, he ran as a Republican but lost to Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

— OtherDave 13:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:1947PEI.gif

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[edit] Image:Nbelect2006map.GIF listed for deletion

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[edit] The war is over

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