Today, the leaders of Canada’s major national federal parties have verified accounts. Yet despite tweeting more than either Dalai Lama, Pope Francis and other political leaders, @ElizabethMay (29,200 Tweets) sits on the bottom branch with 176,000 Followers. Using two accounts, Prime Minister Harper leads the race with combined number of 908,100 Followers, 20,100 Followers on his French account @premierministre, second to his English, @pmharper with 888,000.
With 738,000 Followers on one account @JustinTrudeau falls into a close second. @ThomasMulcair flies in a far third with 168,000 Followers.
With Tweets repeated in both French and English Trudeau speaks directly to voters, uses words and pictures, thanking them for attending his rallies
Amazing rally in #Edmonton with @Eleanor4Strath and 1400+ of our friends tonight! #realchange #elxn42 pic.twitter.com/mbYiU01lhj
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 10, 2015
Amazing rally in #Edmonton with @Eleanor4Strath and 1400+ of our friends tonight! #realchange #elxn42 pic.twitter.com/mbYiU01lhj
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 10, 2015
thanks local leaders for meeting him,
Pleasure to meet with #Edmonton Mayor @DonIveson for a productive conversation this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/PxJ8D845cl
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 9, 2015
and has released pieces of his platform
We’ll invest in #affordablehousing because every Canadian deserves to have a place to call home. Add your name: https://t.co/LW5DH4yjSM — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 9, 2015
Although he has fewer French Tweets, Mulcair has also been releasing his platform
Watch: Tom announces the #NDP auto-sector jobs strategy. #Ready4Change #elxn42 https://t.co/kqxM58ZgQn
— Tom Mulcair (@ThomasMulcair) September 9, 2015
together with taking Followers inside his campaign.
Enter to win an all-expenses paid day on the plane with Canada’s next PM. http://t.co/uiQKHekwuO #Ready4Change pic.twitter.com/UKWGvVviuV — Tom Mulcair (@ThomasMulcair) September 9, 2015
On Facebook Mulcair’s page has less than half the number of likes than Justin Trudeau, and 1,000 likes less than the official NDP party page.
The NDP Twitter and Liberal Twitter both use similar tactics: Twitter style ads together with Retweets of candidates and promotions of their leaders. While the Liberal Party has 147,000 Followers on Twitter, the NDP has 109,000. Despite using similar tactics Conservative Twitter has 68,400 Followers, falling behind Green Party Twitter who has 91,300 Followers.
The Liberals are most active on Twitter with 14,000 Tweets while the NDP are least with only 3,486.
Most of Harper’s campaign Tweets are repeated in English and French each on their respective accounts
Un plaisir de parler de notre plan économique d’équilibre budgétaire et d’allégement fiscal avec la @OntarioCofC. http://t.co/XLKq6XymHL
— Stephen Harper (@premierministre) September 9, 2015
I was pleased to talk about our economic plan of balanced budgets and low taxes with @OntarioCofC. http://t.co/W8wbro35CB #cdnpoli #elxn42
— Stephen Harper (@pmharper) September 9, 2015
On Facebook, Stephen Harper’s page is second to Trudeau, the only leaders to reach 6-figure Likes. But Conservative Party Page leads the race with more likes than the Liberal Party Page
On Twitter Elizabeth May has few French quotes but has re-tweeted more endorsements for the Green Party, its platform, herself, and her candidates than her rivals.
.@ElizabethMay announces @CanadianGreens plan to protect, expand #healthcare w #pharmacare & costed 1st step to include #dentalcare. #elxn42
— Jo-Ann Roberts (@JoAnnRobertsYYJ) September 9, 2015
together with scenes from her own rallies.
It’s going to be a full house tonight at Beban Park for our town hall with @ElizabethMay & @paulmanly pic.twitter.com/kcjTyjeXLd
— NL Greens (@NLGreenTeam) September 9, 2015
While May’s Facebook Page has over 10,000 more Likes than the Green Party’s Page, they’re both in last compared to the other national leaders.
The most recent polls indicate that Canada’s 2015 Federal race is still a close 3-way race. On the other hand Contributions and Twitter suggest that the election is between the Liberals and Conservatives. The question now; what will Canadians decide?
*Last Social Media Count on 11 September 2015