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good for you if you did. Far from a wasted vote...

Greens earn funding with 4 per cent of vote

Last Updated Tue, 29 Jun 2004 0:39:14

HALIFAX - The Green party, fighting to be recognized as a legitimate fourth party, recorded a major boost to its fortunes on Election Night, winning four per cent of the popular vote.

The party, which had complained about not being allowed to participate in the two all-leaders' debates, climbed more than three percentage points from the last election.

In 2000, their vote was almost negligible, recording only 0.08 per cent, or 1,100 votes. In this election, the party received about half a million votes.

With four per cent of the national popular vote, the Greens will qualify for annual funding of $1.75 per voter. That should allow Green Leader Jim Harris to build the party's infrastructure leading up to the next election.

The party's greatest showing has come in Alberta and British Columbia. In Alberta it captured six per cent of the popular vote, the highest support nationally. Its worst showing was in Manitoba, where it polled two per cent of the vote.

The party said from the beginning of the election campaign that it intended to send MPs to Ottawa. It has not been able to do that, but the party has increased its support more than four-fold across the country.

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you know, real change really does start locally. after 7 years of talking as clearly as I could about green ideas with my family, [color:"green"] all of my hardcore liberal family informed me that they voted green. my grandparents are another story, but wow... that my family has opened to the possibility of a different party (especially one so powerless) is incredible to me. bring on the world, i say.

moral of this story: if you want change, talk through ideas and real alternatives with your friends and family. I didn't think i'd see a change in my family's votes until a different party was much better established. don't wait for the next election though, cause it took 7 years of demonstration and discussion for this to happen.

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