Canadian Inuits vs. US Native Americans

[Joe Republic]

One thing that sticks out to me in EarlAW's map below...





... is how heavily most of Nunavut voted for the Conservatives.  Nunavut is ~85% Inuit.  Compare that with the US, where most Indian reservations typically reliably vote 70%+ for the Democrats.

What is it about the Inuit community, or perhaps the Conservative Party, that allows for this kind of relationship?

[Vega]

http://mail.nafc.ca/PDF/Party-Platforms-Aboriginal-Specific.pdf

That seems to be a pretty good platform if you seek Inuit or other aboriginal support.

[Sol]

Alaska natives are a traditionally swingy demographic, though they're more friendly to the Democrats currently.

It should also be noted that the Conservatives do better with minorities in general.

[Hatman 🍁]

Not just Nunavut, but Nunatsiavut (the blue area in Labrador) and Inuvialuit (northern NWT) are all Inuit areas that voted Conservative. The Inuit part of Quebec (Nunavik) doesn't have its own Census Division, but may have gone Green or NDP: http://election-atlas.ca/fed/308/24046.php?e=2011

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The answer is that they don't have much loyalty to Canadian parties (why should they?) and tend to vote based on personality instead. Leona Aglukkaq is evidently very popular. The Liberal Nancy Karetak-Lindell was before her, and so on. We are also dealing with a tiny electorate (less than eight thousand people voted in Nunavut in 2011).

[Hatman 🍁]

The answer is that they don't have much loyalty to Canadian parties (why should they?) and tend to vote based on personality instead. Leona Aglukkaq is evidently very popular. The Liberal Nancy Karetak-Lindell was before her, and so on. We are also dealing with a tiny electorate (less than eight thousand people voted in Nunavut in 2011).

This is true, but it's interesting that 3 out of the 4 Inuit regions of the country voted Conservative.

[Hatman 🍁]

I just calculated the results in Nunavik, Quebec. Interestingly, the Tories finished a distant 4th:

NDP: 30.6%
Grn: 28.2%
Lib: 21.5%
Cons: 12.3%
BQ: 7.4%

Also interesting that a Cree candidate (NDP) would edge out one of their own (the Green candidate).

[Hatman 🍁]

Looks like Miles made an error with Nunatsiavut (in Labrador) when he compiled his data, apparently it went Liberal (he must have included some Innu communities which went heavily Conservative, but are NOT Inuit). The Conservative candidate was Innu, so there was some crossover support, which pretty much disappeared in the 2013 by-election.

Here are the numbers that I got:

Liberal: 43.3%
Cons: 38.2%
NDP: 17.2%
Grn: 1.3%

[Hatman 🍁]

This of course means the rest of Labrador narrowly went Conservative. Corrected map:

[traininthedistance]

Ah, it's always nice to be reminded just how ludicrously unequal Canadian constituencies are.

[Hatman 🍁]

Ah, it's always nice to be reminded just how ludicrously unequal Canadian constituencies are.

While this is true to a certain extent, this is not a map of Canada's constituencies, but rather census divisions (equivalent to counties)

[Joe Republic]

http://mail.nafc.ca/PDF/Party-Platforms-Aboriginal-Specific.pdf

That seems to be a pretty good platform if you seek Inuit or other aboriginal support.

This just demonstrates once again why the US Republican Party is so far out of the mainstream compared to other conservative parties in the western world.

[Skill and Chance]

http://mail.nafc.ca/PDF/Party-Platforms-Aboriginal-Specific.pdf

That seems to be a pretty good platform if you seek Inuit or other aboriginal support.

This just demonstrates once again why the US Republican Party is so far out of the mainstream compared to other conservative parties in the western world.

Eh, it really comes down to whether the country you are comparing to has a significant religious right block.  Canada doesn't, but places like Ireland, Portugal (abortion legalized in the 2000's), and Poland do and they are clearly industrial developed countries.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Here, natives vote about 93% DFL on average.  The exception was in 2000 when Winona LaDuke was the VP candidate with Nader.

[Hatman 🍁]

If we're talking non-Inuit aboriginals in Canada, then we're talking about a demographic that almost never votes Tory. Most reserves vote like 70% NDP or Liberal, and it's usually one or the other. Sometimes different reserves in the same riding and the same tribe will vote differently (Liberal or NDP). Sometimes the same reserve will vote 70% NDP in one election and then 70% Liberal in the next.