Canadian federal polling division files

[edmundcjoconnor]

How do tower block polls appear on the map? Do they at all? I say this because I've got a strong suspicion the NDP won a few towers in Etobicoke North.

[Hatman 🍁]

How do tower block polls appear on the map? Do they at all? I say this because I've got a strong suspicion the NDP won a few towers in Etobicoke North.

It appears as though they dont, unless it's a poll with more than one apartment, or if the apartment is next to a large park or something.

St. John's would be interesting now.

Although I don't know if a deep enough orange exists for St. John's East …

A better one would be for St. John's South-Mount Pearl and of course, Avalon. I'm interested in which communities stayed Conservative this time 'round and which swung Liberal.

Well, hell, what about one for the whole island? I'd like to start some gerrymandered maps

[edmundcjoconnor]

How do tower block polls appear on the map? Do they at all? I say this because I've got a strong suspicion the NDP won a few towers in Etobicoke North.

It appears as though they dont, unless it's a poll with more than one apartment, or if the apartment is next to a large park or something.

Drat. I suspected that might be the case.

[the506]

Yeah...those tower blocks (poll #s in the 400s) are a seperate file that I haven't bothered with yet.

Here's a very interesting riding that (I think) hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread...Guelph:

[Hatman 🍁]

an NDP-Green tie? Crazy!

[Hash]

Seems like the Greenies won the University and downtown area.

[keveh]

Wow....I happened on this forum via www.punditsguide.ca as they released this data (something I was looking for awhile now).

I must say, I am super impressed by the quality of maps everyone has produced. I'm in the "GIS-biz"... and have access to high end mapping software and cartography software. It looks like everyone has been able to take a free program and produce quality and informative maps. GIS to the masses! This is seriously awesome.

I put together a couple of maps today for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound (home county).
1) Obvious - who won each poll
2) % of the Green vote (from total) mapped by each poll. (I have connections with the Green candidate so wanted to make this for him).

Large version: http://www.kevinhibma.com/maps/2008_won_poll.jpg


Large Version: http://www.kevinhibma.com/maps/2008_green_vote.jpg

[edmundcjoconnor]

an NDP-Green tie? Crazy!

What's crazier is a Tory-NDP tie. Boy, I wouldn't want to live in THAT neighbourhood. Would make the Hatfields and McCoys look positively civilised, by comparison.

[edmundcjoconnor]

Yeah...those tower blocks (poll #s in the 400s) are a seperate file that I haven't bothered with yet.

Here's a very interesting riding that (I think) hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread...Guelph:

What's interesting with Guelph is that virtually all the polls were quite or very close. This is a genuine toss-up seat here, folks – flipping between Libs and Tories, and even the Greens, if they're going downhill with a following wind.

[edmundcjoconnor]

In Guelph, there's four – four! – absolute dead-heat polls, with every major party involved. If this isn't a knife-edge riding, I don't know what is.

[Hatman 🍁]

Wow....I happened on this forum via www.punditsguide.ca as they released this data (something I was looking for awhile now).

I must say, I am super impressed by the quality of maps everyone has produced. I'm in the "GIS-biz"... and have access to high end mapping software and cartography software. It looks like everyone has been able to take a free program and produce quality and informative maps. GIS to the masses! This is seriously awesome.

I put together a couple of maps today for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound (home county).
1) Obvious - who won each poll
2) % of the Green vote (from total) mapped by each poll. (I have connections with the Green candidate so wanted to make this for him).

Large version: http://www.kevinhibma.com/maps/2008_won_poll.jpg


Large Version: http://www.kevinhibma.com/maps/2008_green_vote.jpg

Cool, but someone already posted that riding. We didn't get a green % vote though, so that is interesting

Keep them coming!

[the506]

Here are the Windsor ridings...if you need proof that riding boundaries affect how people vote, this is it.

[Hatman 🍁]

I didn't expect to see so many NDP polls in Tecumseh. And the NDP pockets in Essex seem to be random...

[Augustus]

The colour maps are very interesting.  I wish things like that had been available during the last election to take a look at.

Does anyone have a map of the Papineau riding in Quebec where the battle between Justin Trudeau and the Bloc Quebecois occurred?  I would be interested to see how it broke down.

[Hatman 🍁]

The colour maps are very interesting.  I wish things like that had been available during the last election to take a look at.

Does anyone have a map of the Papineau riding in Quebec where the battle between Justin Trudeau and the Bloc Quebecois occurred?  I would be interested to see how it broke down.

There's a map of Montreal a few pages back. It would have Papineau.

[MaxQue]

Since Holmes asked it a few pages ago.

Timmins is in the left strange-shaped arm.

The other one are to the right, on a north-west, south-east axis. A road.
In order, starting at upper right; Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Kirkland Lake and Englehart.

A 70% NDP color would have been useful.

[minionofmidas]

I demand the closer North Ontario ridings!

[Hatman 🍁]

It's interesting how in Northern Ontario, it is often the large cities that are more right wing than the rural areas, in that they vote Liberal, while the rural areas for NDP. The same is true for Sault. Ste. Marie anyways, and Sudbury. Possibly Thunder Bay as well.

[Zebede]

Can I see Pontiac ?

[Augustus]

The colour maps are very interesting.  I wish things like that had been available during the last election to take a look at.

Does anyone have a map of the Papineau riding in Quebec where the battle between Justin Trudeau and the Bloc Quebecois occurred?  I would be interested to see how it broke down.

There's a map of Montreal a few pages back. It would have Papineau.

Yes I think I saw the Montreal map with all the ridings together in a general overview.  I was wondering where I could see one of the riding in detail blown up like some of the other ridings on this thread.

[Hatman 🍁]

The colour maps are very interesting.  I wish things like that had been available during the last election to take a look at.

Does anyone have a map of the Papineau riding in Quebec where the battle between Justin Trudeau and the Bloc Quebecois occurred?  I would be interested to see how it broke down.

There's a map of Montreal a few pages back. It would have Papineau.

Yes I think I saw the Montreal map with all the ridings together in a general overview.  I was wondering where I could see one of the riding in detail blown up like some of the other ridings on this thread.

The image was scaled down a bit. The file itself is a bit bigger. Depending on your eyes, it might be good enough. Not as a big as some here, but big enough to know where the polls are.

[the506]

Pontiac:

[Hatman 🍁]

The NDP won a poll in Wakefield last time, but they lost it. Weird that they won a poll in Angers.

[MaxQue]

It's interesting how in Northern Ontario, it is often the large cities that are more right wing than the rural areas, in that they vote Liberal, while the rural areas for NDP. The same is true for Sault. Ste. Marie anyways, and Sudbury. Possibly Thunder Bay as well.

True in Abitibi, too, especially in Val-d'Or, in replacing NDP by the BQ and Liberal by Liberal or Conservative.

[the506]

The NDP won a poll in Wakefield last time, but they lost it. Weird that they won a poll in Angers.

They won a poll in Cantley too, you can see it if you pull up the large version.