Thanks for the comments, always good to hear. I'll be posting a breakdown of the senate results from Edmonton sometime in the next day or so, depending how work goes. I've always just worked with ArcGIS, and shapefiles (Academic license), so it makes the mapping process quite easy.
@Earl: I've been following your site for awhile now. Your work is fantastic. I've been meaning to send a hello.
Any chance there is demographic data available from the Australian national census? If we have that, we can identify the demographic relationships with certain parties, and just use 2006 Canadian census data to extrapolate the results. As the poll data is different for Australia, we might have to run it at the riding level, but it is still doable. It'd just be a question of building proper models to account for regional eccentricities. I've been meaning to learn about Australian politics, so I'm quite excited for the chance
