Canada under a US style presidential system (1867-present)

[Kevinstat]

So I take it there would be no provision against a provinces' electors voting for both a Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate from that province (as in Ontario's electors voting for the all-Ontario ticket of Blake-Mackenzie in 1871).  Or will you revise your above post to eliminate that problem, as in Mr. Blake choosing a different running mate in 1871 or either Blake or Mackenzie moving to another province (as I've heard someone say Dick Cheney did - moving to another state, not province, in his case - soon before the 2000 election as he had lived in Texas before then - although his Congressional service when he was in Congress was from Wyoming)?

[Kevinstat]

I notice New Brunswick and Nova Scotia's # of electors increased between 1867 and 1871, then went back to their original numbers between 1871 and 1875.  I don't think PEI was part of either NB or NS before it became a province of Canada (I think that was due to ascension (sp?) to the Dominion).  I also think your math must be wrong somewhere as why else would there have been 10 more electors in 1879 than in 1875 when all the same provinces existed with the same number of electors apeice?

I now see where the error is (besides possibly inadvertantly reducing NB's and NS's elector count mid-decade).  Based on the values in your map, in the 1879 election, Macdonald and Boucher should have recieved 9 + 6 + 112 + 89 + 10 + 31 = 257 electoral votes, not 267.  That plus Blake and Mackenzie's 26 equals 283, the same as the number of electoral votes up for grabs four years earlier (in 1875) and 5 less than the 288 electoral votes up for grabs four years later in 1883, when Ontario gained four electoral votes (and presumably four more MPs) and Manitoba gained 1.