By paNOW Staff

Student vote parallels federal election results

Oct 21, 2015 | 5:50 PM

Although most weren’t old enough to vote, students practiced their democracy in a mock election.

The national Student Vote, put on by CIVIX, had students in grades six to 12 attend participating schools to cast a ballot.

As it turned out, youth across the country had a very similar views as those who actually participated in the federal election.

Like the national results, the Liberal Party came in with a majority government in the student vote as well. The party garnered 38 per cent of the vote with 226 seats.

The Conservatives were awarded official opposition with 26 per cent of the vote and 70 seats.

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The NDP rounds out the top three with almost 20 per cent support and 40 seats.

With students in control, the Green Party had four seats compared to the lone seat they received in the actual election.

In the ‘real’ election, the Liberal Party took 184 seats – with 40 per cent support.

A greater number of adults had conservative views, with the Conservative Party taking 99 seats on Monday and almost 32 per cent support – 29 more than if voted in by students.

For the NDP, numbers were quite similar with 44 seats and just under 20 per cent support in the real 2015 election.

Conservative MP Randy Hoback would have also kept his seat if it were up to the students as he received 35 per cent support with 767 total votes.

Gordon Kirkby with the Liberal Party had 677 votes—30 per cent support and NDP candidate Lon Borgerson came third with 538 votes or 25 per cent support. Byron Tenkink of the Green Party had 206 —9 per cent support.

The actual election results had Hoback with 50 per cent support, Borgerson, 28 per cent, Gordon Kirkby, 20 per cent and Tenkink with two per cent.

In total, 34 local schools participated.

The student vote site has full details on national, provincial and local results.

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