2026 US Midterm Elections

[PartySick 176,201]

1 minute ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

LETS GO TALAFREAKOOOO

 

OH MY GOD

BLEXAS HAPPENED

[Morphine Prince 110,695]

I refuse to celebrate until it is officially called in Texas. 

[calmar 23,108]

2 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I don't even know what kind of representative government y'all have tbh  

I just know the US literally acts like 50 individual countries (each state with it's own "president", senate, house, and supreme court) and then there's a similar model at the federal level for all 50 states to cooperate as one entity on the global stage.

Theirs is kinda like ours, but is more based on the UK's system than ours is.

Their house has representatives from electoral districts that people in those districts elect, like we do, although those electoral districts don't map like states or like counties, but something in size kind of in between in many cases. The number of representatives from each area depends on population, like our house.

Map 1: Canadian ridings (house electoral districts) and their current political parties

Their senate is similar in that the idea is that each region gets equal representation. It's just that (a) those regions are not the same as the provinces, but kind of like saying "the midwest gets some senators, and the east coast gets a few"; and (b) they have to be okayed by the governor general of canada, kind of like how our president has to okay ambassadors. The four regions are the Maritime division, the Quebec division, the Ontario division, and the Western division. They each get 24 senators. Newfoundland and Labrador confusingly isn't part of the maritime division and gets 6 of its own senators; Canada's three territories (Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut) each get 1 senator, giving (24 * 4) + 6 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 105 senators.

Like Franch Toast said, the equivalent of our state governor is a provincial premier. 

[StarstruckIllusion 54,035]

4 minutes ago, SidewalkUnicorn said:

Annie Andrewwwws!

ATEEE

 

[NickoNacko 47]

3 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

LETS GO TALAFREAKOOOO

 

I’m so incredibly hopefully for Texas (where I currently live). 🤞🏻 

[Franch Toast 27,887]

3 minutes ago, 27monster27 said:

I hope El-Sayed pulls off Michigan. I'm a bit worried about there, but I want to have hope.

He should be okay. They always count Wayne county (where Detroit and Dearborn are) very late. 

And I think we're safe on Governor too. I've been too busy following the national races to pay attention to my local ones 

[27monster27 16,411]

2 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

wtf happening in Nebraska? An independent actually leading??!

I'm happy to see how votes against the two-party duopoly are actually starting to count. Now we need to see this in the official 3rd parties.

[StarstruckIllusion 54,035]

0 red counties in a state Trump won IJBOLLLL

 

[Morphine Prince 110,695]

CNN has called that the Democrats have flipped the US House!!!

[27monster27 16,411]

SOUTH CAROLINA MIGHT FLIP TO THE LEFT. THIS IS HUGE.

[bxr 3,851]

6 minutes ago, sarahb said:

A tossup in Mississippi 

What the **** 

Mississippi is the state with the largest Black population by percentage in the U.S. (37.9%) … just a fun fact … also a glaring reality, with much less fun practical implications and political effects

[LaLa 19,964]

2 minutes ago, Franch Toast said:

I was in Toronto last week, and over dinner was asking everyone, "What do you call the person who's the head of a province?" Took a while to get an answer, because only one person was actually from Canada (everyone else was from China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan). Turns out it's premier.

So to answer your question, the premier of a province is the equivalent of a state governor. 

 

Yes! That makes sense to me. Okay Governor I get now lol

I think we just vote for a lot fewer people than you guys do lol, besides my local politics were I vote for my like city councilors and stuff I basically have one representative in provincial politics and one in federal. We don't even vote for our premiers (or their federal equivalent) directly. 

So your huge ballots and all your different levels and reps confuse me 

[PartySick 176,201]

3 minutes ago, calmar said:

Theirs is kinda like ours, but is more based on the UK's system than ours is.

Their house has representatives from electoral districts that people in those districts elect, like we do, although those electoral districts don't map like states or like counties, but something in size kind of in between in many cases. The number of representatives from each area depends on population, like our house.

Map 1: Canadian ridings (house electoral districts) and their current political parties

Their senate is similar in that the idea is that each region gets equal representation. It's just that (a) those regions are not the same as the provinces, but kind of like saying "the midwest gets some senators, and the east coast gets a few"; and (b) they have to be okayed by the governor general of canada, kind of like how our president has to okay ambassadors. The four regions are the Maritime division, the Quebec division, the Ontario division, and the Western division. They each get 24 senators. Newfoundland and Labrador confusingly isn't part of the maritime division and gets 6 of its own senators; Canada's three territories (Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut) each get 1 senator, giving (24 * 4) + 6 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 105 senators.

Like Franch Toast said, the equivalent of our state governor is a provincial premier. 

I always wondered how government works for anyone living up in those Arctic areas where there's nothing but trees and moose

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1 minute ago, Morphine Prince said:

CNN has called that the Democrats have flipped the US House!!!

[PartySick 176,201]

1 minute ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

0 red counties in a state Trump won IJBOLLLL

 

Holy sh*t