Canadian federal polling division files

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Somebody please explain to me how the hell this works in MapWindow. How do you open the files?

Otherwise, this looks great.

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Somebody please explain to me how the hell this works in MapWindow. How do you open the files?

Otherwise, this looks great.

I can't get it to work either. Im going to see if the 506 can help me over MSN.

Trugarez. I have 2 ZIP folders with a gazillion files with file types I've never seen before. Which do I open? How do I open them? What next?

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Unzip the folder and then open it up in MapWindow. Apparently it worked for him, but I was unable to get it open. MapWindow thought it was an shx file even though it was clearly a shp file

I have the maps. Is the actual data included in this?

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The grey precinct is empty or a tie?

Grey divisions are ties.

How'd you get it to work with the results and colours? Did you manually colour it in using Elections Canada results?

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I had to manually add the results and wrote a script to colour the map.

Could you please show us how to do that?

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Ottawa-Vanier and Joliette please. I know they're boring, but whatever.

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Ottawa-Vanier 2008

Trugarez!

The Conservative area is Beacon Hill North - a wealthy suburb. Rockcliffe Park, an extremely wealthy neighborhood, is a surprise. I suspect this could be linked to the debate about a bridge between eastern Ottawa and Quebec (which is unpopular in Ontario).

The huge light blue poll is a very sparsely populated quasi-empty piece of land that's part of CFB Rockcliffe. I suppose the only voters there are mainly military personnel. And I think my poll voted Conservative , unsurprising though, since it's full of old people.

Re: BGOS - what's that city which voted Green? Owen Sound?

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If you're taking requests (great job, btw ), any Quebec City ridings could be interesting (I'm especially interested in the downtown Quebec constituency).

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Cool. Thanks.

Could I request any of the Ottawa seats and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell?

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And oh wow, at that one blue poll in my parents' neighbourhood (north part of Ottawa South). I used to walk through there to go to High School, and remember seeing a lot of Canadian Alliance signs back in the day. Hasn't voted Conservative lately, though. Very interesting!

Around Smyth Road?

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Well, fishies vote NDP.

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That Sask riding with the very long name, D-M-CR or something along those lines, would be fun. IIRC, it's majority native and is held by the Tories.

I note that majority native ridings vote differently than native areas in non-majority native ridings.

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We've been noticed by the Pundits' Guide! Muy bien, amigos.

I put in a request for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell... and why not Pontiac.

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Except Rosetown-Biggar, the urban precincts from Saskatoon aren't extremely NDP... fair share of Tory polls too (though much lesser margins than the rural polls!)

Ditto Regina.

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Here are the Regina ridings. Can you tell which one is Ralph Goodale's?

Why is much of southeast Regina plurality Liberal?

It's Ralph Goodale's seat.

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Degemer mat an Atlasia!

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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.

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Seems like the Greenies won the University and downtown area.

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Did Blair Wilson win any polls in West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country?

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Did Blair Wilson win any polls in West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country?

He won six polls, and tied two others. the506 sent me a table showing how many polls each party won in each district.

Mind forwarding it to me, mar plij?

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I assume the large swaths of land voting NDP on Vancouver Island are industrial areas dominated by logging of some sort, or mining if it's still around (there was coal mining in Nanaimo at the turn of the 20th century, and Nanaimo elected Socialist Party MLAs).

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Western Arctic would be interesting.

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Why is Bowen Island so liberal? Makes little sense from what the wiki has to say about how it is now - you can guess from the article that it is latte liberal, but are left wondering why.

Probably the same reason the Gulf Islands area.

Also, maybe NDP-Green vote splitting?

NDP did poorly on Bowen Island. Greens did well, second place in one poll.

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The Conservatives swept (won all the polls in) a riding in Quebec (Beauce)!

Beauce is very conservative, it's practically the Utah/Idaho of Quebec, or maybe Oklahoma since Utah and Idaho probably have a higher IQ than Beaucerons do on average. Maxime Bernier is the son of a longtime PC MP in the '80's and '90's and since it's a rural riding, those things count a lot, even if Maxime Bernier has the IQ of a fly. Maybe I'm insulting flies. Apologies.

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The map has one poll for the Bloc, though, yes, the polls excel file has them winning all. Saint-Léonard is Italian land, and while Italians are declining, ethnic minorities (especially Arabs) are replacing them. And neither Italians nor Arabs are nationalists.

edit: the results file gives one poll to the Bloc, by 2 votes. (67-65)

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what kind of Arabs are in St Leonard? Algerians and Lebanese?

Yeah, mostly. There's also a large number of Haitians and a growing Hispanic community, mainly South American.