Random international maps thread

[Linus Van Pelt]

Nobody gives a sh**t

False, definitely, even if some of us don't have much comment of our own to offer.

[Linus Van Pelt]

I'd never realized that there was a period in which only part of the NWT was represented in Parliament. Presumably it was because these districts had significant white settlement. Interesting.

[Linus Van Pelt]

IIRC, 1965 was the first election where ridings covered the entire country

The Wikipedia article I was just reading on the NWT ridings suggests it was 1962. That would make some sense since Diefenbaker extended the franchise to Status Indians in 1960.

[Linus Van Pelt]

BC, 2006 Federal Election, by Polling Division

Nice map.

Sorry to be the guy with the quibble, but looking at the506's riding maps from this election, I think the southern Queen Charlotte/Haida Gwaii poll is wrong. (It's not like I have all polls memorized or was combing the map for errors; that one just jumped out at me since it's in a distinctive location and a very unlikely place to vote Conservative).

[Linus Van Pelt]

It's a tricky part of the country to draw no matter what you do. The new map looks cleaner at first glance but actually Kelowna is very awkward.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Just on that B.C. Southern Interior discussion from above, the other thing to remember is that when the riding was drawn, a large majority of the polls had voted Reform/Alliance in the past three elections, so it wouldn't have really been seen as an "NDP riding" unless people could foresee the large swings that were about to occur.

(The patterns in the west Kootenays, in the riding's eastern bulge, are pretty weird. There are polls that would give Reform big outright majorities with large margins that now do the same for the NDP, and then not too far away there are places like the poll whose actual 2000 result was 26% Alliance, 25% Green, 21% NDP, 15% Liberal, 6% Marijuana, 4% Canadian Action, 3% Progressive Conservative.)