Canada had their Parliamentary election yesterday. The ruling Liberals had not been expected to maintain their absolute majority (and didn't), but had hoped to hold enough seats to have a majority with their expected coalition partners, the socialist New Democratic Party (think UK Old Labor).
Parliament has 308 seats. The Liberals won 135 seats and the NDP 19, for a total of 154 seats or exactly half. Problem is they need one more vote. The refounded Conservative Party won 100 seats (counting a Conservative who ran as an independent), and the Bloc Quebecois (BQ) won the other 54.
Now, the BQ and Libs are not that far apart on most policy -- except that they are the two competing parties in Quebec, so they can't easily join in coalition. The Conservatives stand alone on the right. Looks like the government will be very much day-to-day up there. Considering how much the Libs & NDP played bash-America over the last few years, it couldn't happen to nicer guys.
UPDATE: I note that the Libertarian Party of Canada came in dead last with 1,964 votes out of about 14 million cast. They trailed such parties as the Communist Party and the Marxist-Leninist Party. The Marijuana Party got nearly 20 times as many votes. Election totals here.