Students choose Conservatives in national Student Vote mock election

If students had their say in the election, the result could have been different.

Yesterday (Monday), more than 925,000 elementary, intermediate and high school students across the country participated in Student Vote Canada.

The program, put on by CIVIX in collaboration with Election Canada, teaches students about democracy and elections, and then has the students participate in a mock election, coinciding with real elections.

As of 10:00 am Pacific today, 928,862 valid votes were reported from 6,079 schools from all 343 electoral districts. There were also 31,726 rejected ballots.

Canadian students would have elected a Conservative minority government, winning 162 seats with 36.4 per cent of the vote, while the Liberals would have formed the official opposition with 149 seats on 31.8 per cent of the vote.

The  Bloc Québecois came in third with 17 seats (2.2%), while the NDP won 13 (14.5%) and the Greens won two (7.4).

In Cariboo-Prince George, the students chose Todd Doherty with 46.43 per cent of the vote.

In Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies, Bob Zimmer held onto his seat with 64.07 per cent of the student’s vote.

The students also gave liberal leader Mark Carney his seat in Nepean and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre his seat in Carleton.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh lost his seat in Burnaby South in the Student Vote, while Green Co-leader Elizabeth May won hers.

Full results from the Student Vote can be found here.