Detailed numbers on the election

[Fransisco]

http://www.cwbelection.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-DETAILED-FINAL-RESULTS.pdf

[Fransisco]

So when I add it all up there were 11,402 ballots sent back. Of that 5776 of them went to candidate who were clearly in favour of the monopoly.

That works out to 50.6% of total returned ballots for the monopoly. On top of this only something like 41 or 42% of the ballots got returned.

The board and its groupies point to these election results and say, look at how popular the monopoly is with farmers. Let`s be generous and say that 25% of eligible votes went for the single desk. That is hardly a ringing endorsement of anything.

[silverback]

According to one of the posters on this site who adamantly supports the board, they only grow 10 - 20 % board crops a year but need the board to market that crop because they are too "busy" on marketing their lentils, chickpeas, canola, peas, etc...

It is obvious that there are many farms out there that are able to grow crops in the exact same way but could care less what the board does with that 10 - 20 % of their production. They don't support the board and are proving it with their drill and couldn't be bothered to even vote one way or the other.

[Fransisco]

Oops, I didn't do that quite right. Let me do this again.

[wd9]

Well i guess we don't have to talk about the CWB now until the next election. We know for absolute certainty the government will not make a change to the cwb.

Should free up a lot of server space at agriville.

[Fransisco]

Okay, based on the final ballots

On the single desk side of the equation we have:

Dan Gauthier 786
Stewart Wells 1,872
Allen L. Oberg 1,156
Kyle Korneychuk 1,383
John Sandborn 1,365

Total 6562

On the moderate side we have:

Henry Vos 817
Brian J. Otto 1,558
Vicki A. Dutton 662
Terry V. Youzwa 1,039
Ernie Sirski 692

total 4768

Grand total of 11,330

So monopolists got 57.9 %
moderates got 42.1%

Factor in the 42% return rate on ballots and the monopolists are down to 24% of potential ballots.

Like I said before hardly a ringing endorsement of anything.

[charliep]

Did find interesting the number of farmers who didn't use the preferential ballot to show their 2nd and 3rd choices.

[Fransisco]

I think a lot of guys don't really know how the preferential ballot system works.

[Fransisco]

Add in the wheat boards own producer survey numbers and the barley plebiscite and the thing looks about as popular as a porcupine in a nudist colony.

[riders2010]

Well that would depend if you were the nudist or the porcupine!!!! lmao!!!