9:28pm: Polls close in the West in a half hour. Legally, nobody can blog any results from Atlantic Canada, Quebec or Ontario until all the polls are closed. Off the record, there are ways of getting updates… but I’m a law-abiding citizen so you’ll have to find those elsewhere, or sit tight for a bit.
9:34pm: Polls are closed here in Quebec. In a few minutes I expect to find out that my riding went Liberal, as it has every election since 1962. That’s not based on any hard numbers, but more on my crystal ball.
9:40pm: Results being posted on TV. I can’t blog them yet, but suffice to say that I’m cautiously optimistic.
9:47pm: The “elected or leading” results are always misleading, when you consider that many of the polls are leading by, say, 3 votes with only one polling station closed out of hundreds in a riding. Still hard to say much of anything, even if I could.
9:50pm: Results are trickling in from as far west as Alberta, now. I’ll give you three guesses what they’re saying.