Canadian federal polling division files

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A map of all Québec City, including the God-awful suburbia would be cool. And one including Portneuf-Jacques Cartier too, btw!

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http://earth.smurfmatic.net/canada2008/polls/

Epic win.

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Qikiqtaaluk is a great place.

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Qikiqtaaluk is a great place.

Indeed! Lowest Green % in Nunavut!

I don't care about the Greenies anymore, especially under their current piece of sh**t leader.

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Well clearly the way to win Nunavut is to have a candidate with deep personal roots in all regions at once.

Elections in Nunavut are basically decided on local appeal and the winner is the one who appeals to the largest base and/or the region which is most populated.

Probably why the Marijuana Party got 7%.

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Could anybody look up how the Mormon sect community of Bountiful, BC voted? I would assume it's in Kootenays-Columbia, might be in BC SoInterior though.

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

Liberal, I'm pretty sure. The map is unclear in that area.

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Anyways, we need maps of Laval, the Saguenay and Gaspesie! Especially the latter.

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* Sackville was really a 4-way race.

Do you know why? And do you know why Dalhousie voted NDP?

Old industrial working-class city, now there's a uni and it's a touristy place.

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Don't forget Quebec by MRC!

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Don't forget Quebec by MRC!

I've started work on those.

Trugarez

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Also any possibility of doing PEI by county.  I know there is only three, but we might as well add it to the collection.  Also Hamilton and Ottawa pre-amalgamation as well as the Greater Victoria would be interesting to see.  I have made up a map for Hamilton pre-amalgamation so I can e-mail that one.

Or you upload it to the Gallery. You have 50+ posts now.

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Would be funner by old municipality.

Tories did poorly with Quebec Jews compared to their performance with Ontarian Jews. Though much better than in 2006 and Mont-Royal was 'uber-close' by local standards in 2008.

ftr, we already have a full map of Montreal Island by poll in this thread.

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Great, thanks a lot.

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According to the below Wikipedia article, eastern Lachine is very Bloc while western Lachine is very Liberal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame-de-Gr%C3%A2ce%E2%80%94Lachine

Eastern Lachine is an old French working-class area. Dorval is an Anglo area, though definitely not wealthy compared to Senneville or Kirkland. Montreal West is very Anglo + quite wealthy.

Here's Quebec by MRC:

Whats with those two Liberal ones in the Gaspe region.  Was this more a personal vote for Nancy Charest who was a former MNA.  The other interesting one is the one Liberal one in the Eastern Townships although I believe that area has a sizeable Anglophone community.  In the Eastern Townships, I think the Liberals won most the communities near the US border while the further North one goes the better the Bloc Quebecois did.

Although not surprising, I've often wondered why the Appalaches-Chaudieres region is so much more Conservative than the rest of Quebec.  Other than the fact it borders New Hampshire (which seems like a weak reason to me) it is odd why this region is so much more Conservative than the rest of Quebec.

Chaudieres-Appalaches is an enclave of federalism and economic right-wing views in ultra-Francophone territory. Most of it voted no in 1995.

For example, Beauce is one of thew few seats in rural QC (Pontiac, I think, is the only other one) to have never elected a Bloquiste MP. And maybe the only French-majority riding to
never elect one.

Yeah, those areas of Gaspesie are personal votes for Nancy Charest. The traditional Liberal areas in Gaspesie are those along the border with NB and not touching the ocean.

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Indeed. People who vote Bloc in Montreal are usually lower-income and Francophone, or young and hardcore nationalist.

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Saskatchewan ought to be fun.

Alberta won't be fun, 'cause it sucks.

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if we can get maps of the by-election ridings, that would be great. (Specifically Riviere-du-Loup and CCMV from 2006)

I already did the M-L'I-R-d-L

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I don't understand what is going on here

I looked at it for a while, too, but I think Blue is a poll in which the Bloc received at least one vote and Red is a poll in which the Bloc received no votes whatsoever.

Yes, this is what it is. Sorry for not being more explicit, I'll go back and edit it. (That blue is just what the files come in in QuantumGIS - I've been filling it in always, but here it would have been a pain).

Côte Saint-Luc lol

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

Save for CCMV, yes. It's been asked, oh, a million times.

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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.  (And Harper's first home was in Leaside; his family moved to the Etobicoke in the 1970s.)

I suspect Hudson voted Liberal (Marc Garneau) in 2006 and before that too. And will probably do so next election unless something happens.

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Well, more urgent requests:

-Parts of the GTA
-Laval
-Montreal South and North Shore
-Gaspesie
-Calgary
-Saguenay
-PEI
-West Nova, South Shore-St. Margaret's, Kings-Hants, Cape Breton Island

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Liberal polls in Laval are pretty much allophone areas or certain high-income areas (Laval-sur-le-Lac has a lot of rather large houses and the like). There's also a large Italian community in parts of Laval.

The Liberal areas in Brossard are more ethnically diverse, and the Liberal areas in Saint-Lambert are in the old, wealthiest part of the town which, iirc, used to be more Anglo and also in Greenfield Park which is 33% Anglo. I don't know about that Liberal smudge in Candiac, it's Francophone but it seems rather wealthy.

As for Gaspesie, there's Nancy Charest' personal vote in Matane but also at the other end of the riding, which I can't explain. The anglo areas seem split between Tories and Liberals.

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White working-class but probably white-ethnic working-class (Portuguese, Eastern European, Italian) rather than white English working-class, no?

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Is the Green poll in Granby near the zoo by any chance?

(Great maps, btw. Can't wait for the ON ridings)