No, you are not misreading the headline and I have not entered the Twilight Zone.
Tonight is election night in Canada and the Conservative government of Stephen Harper is headed for a second term, possibly by a landslide margin.
Now understand that in Canada a landslide has a different meaning. There are 4 main parties (Conservative, Liberal, New Democratic and Bloc Quebec). So a landslide is when a party is able to form a majority government with 50% plus one seats in Parliament.
You need 155 seats for a majority, the Conservatives came in with 124 seats so they needed to gain 31 more.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company has already projected that Harper will remain Prime Minister in a minority government. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is the bias in the coverage. Here we had the big SNL parody of the media openly rooting for Obama. In the CBC coverage they are openly for the Liberals and attacking Harper (calling a 20 plus seat gain a ‘major defeat’) and it seems to be no big deal.
As of 7:45pm Pacific time they were at 145 seats to 79 for the Liberals with the BQ at 47 and the NDP at 32 with 2 Others.
It looks unlikely here they will win the needed 155 but they are going to gain upwards of 20 seats and that is a huge gain.
CBC coverage here
Live webcast via C-Span here