John Allison's webcomic Scary Go Round, which descended from his original webcomic, Bobbins, is currently running a storyline about a mayoral election in the fictitious town of Tackleford, England. Strangely enough, the candidates seem rather like the parties that could be vying for the Canadian federal election that could take place soon  given how the current minortiy government is mired in scandal (the current government is a minority government; a vote of "no confidence" in parliament would result in a general election).

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Tackeford's Mayor, Mayor Mayor, is rather reminiscent of the Liberal Party (generally the party you vote for if you are the hard-working accordion-playing immigrant high-tech industry son of hard-working immigrant doctors, at least before the scandal...)

Comic: Panel from 'Scary Go Round', April 11, 2005.
Scary Go Round, April 11, 2005. Artist John Allison went back to his pen-and-ink style for a day. Click to see the full comic.

Comic: Panel from 'Scary Go Round', April 12, 2005.
Scary Go Round, April 12, 2005. Click to see the full comic.

Then there's Mr. Quorn, who's sort of like the Conservative Party, recently reconstituted from the Progressive Conservative Party (generally fiscal conservatives, but socially all over the spectrum) and the Reform Party (a distressing number of whom see hard-working high-tech accordion-playing high-tech immigrant sons as hard-working salt-mining equipment)...

Comic: Panel from 'Scary Go Round', April 13, 2005.
Scary Go Round, April 13, 2005. Click to see the full comic.

...and finally, Tackleford's Progressive Party sounds a bit like the New Democratic Party, for whom I shall refrain from comment for the time being:

Comic: Panel from 'Scary Go Round', April 13, 2005.
Scary Go Round, April 13, 2005. Click to see the full comic.