Talk:2019 Canadian federal election

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Blanchet: 2009 or 2023 Image?
Which image should we use for Yves-François Blanchet in this article? The article about the next election (2024/2025) is using the 2023 image. This article currently uses an image from 2009, which is well before he became leader? I think the 2023 one is closer in time and might be preferred for that reason. But perhaps it is better to keep use the older one for this article and the 2023 photos for the 2021 election and 2024/2025 election (at least until something better becomes available). What do others think?--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 21:44, 2 February 2024 (UTC)


 * 2023 photo seems better to me. The Blanchet of 2019 resembled the one of 2023 much more than the one of 2009, so it seems more representative to use the newer photo. While I generally prefer "closest without going over", it's hardly the first time Wikipedia has used anachronistic photos: just look at 1997 Canadian federal election and its 2004 photo of Manning, 2008 photo of McDonough, and 2010 photos of Duceppe and Charest. Not a 1:1 comparison (no other free photos exist for those) but even so, I don't see any issue doing similar here. — Kawnhr (talk) 22:44, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't have a strong opinion either way concerning use on this page. The 2023 image probably is a better representation of his 2019 appearance, but it is more debatable here than concerning the 2021 page. It seems like photos of him without the glasses were still commonly used as of 2018. Maybe using the 2009 image without glasses is appropriate, still seems a bit much given it is a decade old photo. Anyway, as I said, I don't have a strong opinion on this one.-- Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 02:15, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I would support the use of the 2023 photo as it is significantly closer to his 2019 appearance. Lilactree201 (talk) 02:27, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Second Time a Party Won With Less Than 35%
This article makes reference to this being the second time a party had won an election with less than 35% of the vote, the first being the very first Canadian election in 1867. Looking at those results, it gives nearly a third of the vote to "Unknown", which I can only assume refers to ballots that have either been lost to time, or were not able to be identified in 1867. The winning Conservatives got 34.8. Based on that, wouldn't it be fair to either a) assume that the Conservatives almost certainly did get above 35%, or b) conclude that we actually don't know what percent of the votes the parties got in 1867? Or am I misreading this whole thing, and does "unknown" actually mean something different? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.109.141 (talk) 21:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * In a lot of cases the affiliations of losing candidates are lost. There was a searchable resource listing all the vote totals in each riding in each election—HISTORY OF FEDERAL RIDINGS SINCE 1867 —but it was replaced by a broken interface that's useless. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:04, 1 March 2024 (UTC)