Canadian federal polling division files

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Hello. I'm wondering how you guys made those maps? I'm a map maker myself and if someone can teach me how to do this I can continue with the project for everyone to enjoy.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

When I finish my timelines I'll work on some of these.

Here's a list of what I'd like to see. NOTE: some of these have been done already!!

Toronto (all 23 ridings) PART DONE (about half done)
Vancouver Area (Lower Mainland) DONE (Abbotsford/Langley would be nice)
Montreal DONE
Laval and the South Shore of Montreal NOT DONE
Quebec City PART DONE (only one riding done)
All of PEI PART DONE (only one riding done)
Labrador NOT DONE
Halifax (the legal city, warning, its huge) DONE
Cape Breton, the island NOT DONE
Kent County NB NOT DONE
The Saugenay region NOT DONE
The Eastern Townships and Sherbrooke NOT DONE
The Outouais region (Pontiac, Hull, Gatineau) DONE
Vaudriel NOT DONE
Ottawa, the entire legal city PART DONE (rural areas needed)
Kingston NOT DONE
Barrie NOT DONE
Guelph DONE
London NOT DONE
Kitchener-Waterloo DONE
Windsor DONE
Owen Sound DONE
The Enitre Niagara RegionPART DONE (Niagara West needed)
Hamilton DONE
The Entire GTA (Halton, Peel, Durham, and York regions) PART DONE (Bramp, Osh, Newm done)
Winnipeg as a whole DONE
Regina DONE
Saskatoon DONE
Prince Albert riding NOT DONE
Edmonton as a whole PART DONE (one riding done)
Calgary as a whole NOT DONE
Athabaska riding NOT DONE
Prince George, the city NOT DONE
The Territories PART DONE (Yukon needed)
DONE
PART DONE
NOT DONE



I think if we focus on the above list and get it done, what'd be left would be minor enough to do quickly to just fill in the gaps.

Alternatively, we just dont finish it, and work towards finishing a 2009 map.

Either way we really should claim certain cities so we dont both work towards the same city.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Hey, The506 - just a quick query... sometimes there's a riding/city/region done already and I *know* it's already been done, and I want to go look for it (such as now, when I'm trying to find Vancouver...). Previously this wasn't much of an issue - there weren't many pages to look through, but now we're sitting at thirty-five pages of posts, it gets a bit "gluggy" trying to wade through them all. Since it's your thread, I was wondering if you'd mind editing your first post to include a list of ridings/cities/regions and the link to them? It's probably a bit of an effort, so if not, that's okay. In fact, I might try to start on it and put it at this end, so you can cut and paste it at the start to make it easier.

I did a list 10 or so pages back of what's been done and needed (IMHO) to be done. If someone can find and update it (I'm lazy) then I can go back and add the links tonight to each post.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Montreal island polls with no BQ votes.


It's kind of surprising there aren't more, but one thing I've learned from doing all this is that it's extremely hard to actually get to zero for a major party.

I don't understand what is going on here

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

An interesting map for Alberta might be one in which from each Riding, you deduct each party's average vote across Alberta, and then chart the results accordingly.

This sounds good for any areas really. Above and below the norm, with the party most above or below getting the colour

example:

province wide
CPC - 40%
Lib - 35%
NDP - 20%
Grn - 5%

Riding One
CPC - 38% (down two)
Lib - 34% (down one)
NDP - 21% (up one)
Grn - 7% (up two)
This riding would be coloured in Green

CPC - 35%
Lib - 36%
NDP - 25%
Grn - 4%
And Orange here etc

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Do we have maps for the 4 ridings having by-elections?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Here are the colour-coded maps for the 4 by-elections:

1. CMMV
http://krago123.googlepages.com/CCMV_2006PD_Map.pdf

2. Hochelega
http://krago123.googlepages.com/Hoch_2008PD_Map.pdf

3. MLKR
http://krago123.googlepages.com/MLIKRL_2008PD_Map.pdf

4. NWC
http://krago123.googlepages.com/NWC_2008PD_Map.pdf

Courtesy to Krago.

Do you have those for the whole country or least where I could these.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:krago123.googlepages.com+krago123.googlepages.com&hl=en&safe=off&filter=0

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

You're the one that created that site? Good stuff! Too bad the colours aren't shaded!

You are the one who started the whole shaded thing

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I apologize in advance for spelling errors, as I'm writing this in notepad, and not chrome.

The strength of the Liberals in Northern Oakville is a bit odd, but I guess Turner had something to do with that.

I'm a bit surprised at how solid central Mississauga is, and how blue the South and West are.

I'm wondering if Peter Kent is Jewish. Most of the blue areas are in and around Bathurst street, known for being jewish. Nothing in the york region surprises me beyond the strength of the Liberals in the urban areas.

PEI does not surprise me. I used to live there remember. The blue area in the middle riding (at the upper left) is the Kensington area, it is in Prince County (as is Egmont, the riding the Tories won) and hence this part of the riding is much closer to Egmont. Given that, I'm not surprised the Tories won here given they won Egmont. The Liberal strength in Cardigan is a bit more surprising, and I think it has to do with the Local Candidate.

Calgary is boring. I do wish, however, to point out how much 'brighter' blue certain ridigns are. West, East, the two Centre ridings, and the Northwest. Ignore all the red - its just a huge empty poll.

In Quebec. The uniformity of the Bloc win is something that is unique to the party. Condo or Farm, City or Town, Old ot Young, Man or Woman, support for the Bloc does not vary much. I am though surprised at how much support the Liberals have in Brossard

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I hope this thread is not dead