Canadian federal polling division files

[the506]

For anyone else, here it is:

http://www.the506.com/elxnmaps/polls.xls

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West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast:



I'm surprised how blue the city of West Vancouver is.

[the506]

More of the lower mainland:

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I could probably get something done with a Google Maps interface...something like this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.gpmurray-research.com%2Felectoral-atlas%2Fkmz%2FGuelph.kmz&ie=UTF8&z=18

Let me try and figure something out by tonight...

[the506]

Here's something...still needs more work though:

http://www.the506.com/elxnmaps/freddytest.html

(The Conservatives should especially get this info, btw. And if you want any more proof I have no life, this is it. )

[the506]

Sounds like you're calling for a Canadian version of this website

Good idea...maybe something between this site and Adam Carr's Australian one. We could even do provincial elections...

I'm excited!

[the506]

I'm going to try and register the election-atlas.ca domain.

My database and web design skills aren't that great (I'm still stuck on ca-1995 HTML), so someone else might need to do that, plus between a new job (likely) and my other big mapping project ( http://www.the506.com/nflmaps ) both starting up soon, I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to devote. Let's see if there's anyone else not on this site who might be able to contribute.

[the506]

Nice maps!!!

Where did you get the older polling maps? I'd love to incorporate this into the website...

[the506]

Red and orange are the most depressing colours in Canadian politics. Never forget that.

In any event....Halifax:

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Brampton:

[the506]

I think it goes like this:

400s: large apartment buildings/condos
500s: mobile polls/seniors homes
600s: advance polls

[the506]

Technically, New Brunswick has local service districts, which are fairly rudimentary municipal governments. A lot of (most) of those boundaries coincide with parishes. I was actually going to do an NB map with parishes if nobody else got to it first.

Nova Scotia doesn't have much for rural municipalities...a few counties are split in 2 but that's it. There aren't any geographical divisions like parishes either.

[the506]

Here's the NB map by municipality/parish. There were quite a few cases where polling boundaries crossed these lines...I either used my best judgment or merged them together.

[the506]

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

That was 1995, where the PCs won 6 seats, 3 of which were the Madawaska ones...basically Bernard Valcourt coattails.

[the506]

Campbellton was 40% Liberal.

A few more notes:
* I can only count 5 majority-anglo municipalities that went Liberal, 4 of them have large franco minorities and the other was Shawn Graham's hometown.
* Fredericton went Conservative by 20 votes.
* Sackville was really a 4-way race.

Also...anyone know where I can find a NS provincial riding GIS file?

[the506]

* Sackville was really a 4-way race.

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

Easy...Sackville's a university town. If you look at the polls in Fredericton around UNB you see the same patterns.

Dalhousie...NDP candidate was from there. Big employer (paper mill) just closed.

[the506]

Don't forget Quebec by MRC!

I've started work on those.

[the506]

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.

Good idea...I'll do something up tonight.

[the506]

Here's Quebec by MRC:

[the506]

FYI...I'm working on a national poll-by-poll map. Should have it ready in a couple of weeks.

[the506]

For the GIS folks among you....here's the polling division database file with last year's results included:

http://www.the506.com/elxnmaps/pd308_a.dbf (34MB)

I've put together a national poll-by-poll map from this. Any requests?

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York region:


Peel/Halton (except for Brampton which I did earlier):


Laval/north shore:


South shore Montreal:


Gaspesie:

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Saguenay:



Calgary:


PEI:


Cape Breton:


Kings-Hants:


South Shore and West Nova:

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Sorry I've been slacking off lately....

Over the next few days (if I remember ) I'll be showing some of the more interesting ridings that haven't been touched here yet...going from east to west.

Starting in Newfoundland:

Avalon peninsula:


St. John's area:


3 of the 7 NL ridings were clean Liberal sweeps. In Random-Burin-St. George's (the one on the left side of the Avalon map), the NDP won about 10 more polls in the Stephenville area.

[the506]

Just to complete the Gaspe map from earlier....the Magdalen Islands: