Canadian federal polling division files

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Why is that stretch along the east coast (North from Nanaimo) so Conservative?

It's one of those areas where old middle class people go to die.

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It's a fairly natural (ie; class) division IIRC.

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Hardcore Peter Stoffer, anyway lolz.

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As a novice in knowledge of Canadian Politics can someone explain why Ottawa (or at least its suburbs) and Quebec City have such a strong conservative vote.

"Bourgeois cities in voting Conservative shock" or something like that. Though it's more complicated as both were traditionally Liberal and class politics has never played that well in eastern Canada. Think high-tech stuff had something to do with the switch in Ottawa.

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Usually Civil Servants and government workers vote for parties that support enlarging the role of government/ public sector unions - at least from my experience (though I'm guessing Civil Servants are mostly concentrated in the City Centres and make up large parts of the Liberal/Bloc Vote). Though obviously I don't really know much of the details exactly that are specific to Ottawa/QC.

...and note that the cores of these cities, the places where the aforementioned live, don't vote Tory.

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Usually Civil Servants and government workers vote for parties that support enlarging the role of government/ public sector unions - at least from my experience (though I'm guessing Civil Servants are mostly concentrated in the City Centres and make up large parts of the Liberal/Bloc Vote). Though obviously I don't really know much of the details exactly that are specific to Ottawa/QC.

...and note that the cores of these cities, the places where the aforementioned live, don't vote Tory.

Thus the comment in bold.

One Fourty AM though

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Just to say (again if I've not already) that this is a great thread; one of the best for a while. Also, friendly welcome to all the new Canadians from your friendly neighbourhood dictator.

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Just copy the image linking code:



Nice work, btw

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The combination of working-class east, academic/middle-class-liberal north, and more wealthy conservative west is sort of oddly reminiscent of the original London. (Obviously a huge simplification in the case of the larger one).

Yes, I've noticed that before. Quite amusing really.

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The problem is that you've saved them as .bmp's. Save as .png and everything should go fine.

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Still not able to copy on this file.  Do you type in the file name under hyperlink.  I know this is annoying, but could someone walk me through this.  I should fine after getting it right once.

Ah, right. I think I see now.

Go to the link at the top marked "gallery", click on "Election Maps - International", scroll down, click on "add a picture" and it's easy from there.

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IIRC there was one provincial election when all the PC seats were in Madawaska.

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How did Rene Lévesque's place-of-birth vote?

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and probably they're a bit more NDP/Con than average because of the British party system.

That's about right, yeah. I did see some research on the subject once (a few decades old, mind). I've got some relatives in Canada, and that's more-or-less how they split - mind you, most of them live in Saskatchewan.

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The main Hasidic community is actually in a specific corner of Outremont of all places.

Isn't Outremont close to where the original Jewish parts of Montreal were? Because Hasidim in Britain have tended to stay fairly close to such areas - Stamford Hill is close to the old East End, Broughton Park is close to Cheetham Hill and I don't think the ones in Gateshead have ever moved out of Bensham (probably something to do with the yeshiva there).

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Yeah, Churchill looks like it might be racialised to a predictably ugly extent under the surface there.

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I suspect that Hudson is only blue because this is where cabinet minister and Tory senator Michael Fortier tried for his Commons seat, skewing the non-Bloc picture on his behalf. 

Ah, yes. I do so like the fact that Faille's name can easily be mispronounced as "fail".

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Blank map:

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Looking through this thread, I'm wondering if there's an alternate solution to the election-mapping conundrum; maybe something subtler along the lines of tag clouds and the like--i.e. not just colour-coding according to poll winners, but according to the support for *all* parties; it may take a lot of effort to figure a properly "ergonomic" colour-gradation formula for all of that, but I think it's worth it, esp. in zones like Alberta where it's all a cloud of winner-take-all Tory blue...

It'd be difficult to show support for more than three parties at once, unless something clever could be done with layers (not something I know 'owt about).

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Re the 905--not necessarily.  For instance, in the Brampton ridings, the highest-growth places tend to be Liberal, while Tory support is most solid in the older nabes and pre-1980 suburbia of Old Brampton and Bramalea.  (Ethnoburbanism plays a part.)

Presumably there's also a relationship between house prices/tenure patterns (mortgages and own-outright) and voting patterns in those areas?