Metropolitan Toronto - Provincial Elections

[deansherratt]

Here is a link to older maps that I did...Toronto in the 1971 and 1975 provincial elections. I am seated in the 1975 photo to show perspective...it was a BIG map - all hand coloured by graduated winning margins which were calculated "in my head".

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=130432&id=612797173&l=0fb4f759e7

[Linus Van Pelt]

Nice, that's some serious work by hand.

So much blue and orange, so little red - you'd think Toronto was in the west.

[Hatman 🍁]

Toronto has changed so much. Well, the parties have changed too. Back then, the Liberals were the right wing party provincially.

[Hash]

Toronto has changed so much. Well, the parties have changed too. Back then, the Liberals were the right wing party provincially.

And rural party too, important to note.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Toronto has changed so much. Well, the parties have changed too. Back then, the Liberals were the right wing party provincially.

And rural party too, important to note.

Rural southwest especially IIRC.

[Hatman 🍁]

Toronto has changed so much. Well, the parties have changed too. Back then, the Liberals were the right wing party provincially.

And rural party too, important to note.

Rural southwest especially IIRC.

and in Renfrew County, Ontario's answer to the deep south.

ETA: Renfrew voted Liberal every federal election from 1935 to 2000. Not bad for one of the most socially conservative parts of the province.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Toronto has changed so much. Well, the parties have changed too. Back then, the Liberals were the right wing party provincially.

And rural party too, important to note.

Rural southwest especially IIRC.

and in Renfrew County, Ontario's answer to the deep south.

ETA: Renfrew voted Liberal every federal election from 1935 to 2000. Not bad for one of the most socially conservative parts of the province.

Ah, yes. I remember the shock when it fell; quite the harbinger of things to come.

[minionofmidas]

Here is a link to older maps that I did...Toronto in the 1971 and 1975 provincial elections. I am seated in the 1975 photo to show perspective...it was a BIG map - all hand coloured by graduated winning margins which were calculated "in my head".

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=130432&id=612797173&l=0fb4f759e7

Don't forget to post that second pic in the "post a picture of yourself" thread, too.

[deansherratt]

Renfrew was traditionally Liberal in its politics, though socially very Conservative. There are substantial Polish settlements (see Barry's Bay), also a large military contingent (but that vote has shifted Tory now) and civil servants (?) living in Deep River (nuclear workers?)

[Hash]

renfrew was traditionally Liberal in its politics, thoguh socially very Conservative. There are substantial Polish settlements (see Barry's Bay), also a large military contingent (but that vote has shifted Tory now) and civil servants (?) living in Deep River (nuclear workers?)

Isn't/wasn't Renfrew quite Catholic, explaining its old Liberal lean?

Deep River voted Liberal in 2006, not sure about last year. Probably Tory - after all, it was the strongest Tory riding in Ontario IIRC.

[deansherratt]

Indeed, there are a lot of Catholics in Renfrew. that may have been important awhile ago, but not now.

However, Deep River voted Liberal again...probably the only place in the riding that did so. Petawawa was very Conservative, like its soldiers SVR - I vote which was 5-1!

[MaxQue]

renfrew was traditionally Liberal in its politics, thoguh socially very Conservative. There are substantial Polish settlements (see Barry's Bay), also a large military contingent (but that vote has shifted Tory now) and civil servants (?) living in Deep River (nuclear workers?)

Isn't/wasn't Renfrew quite Catholic, explaining its old Liberal lean?

Deep River voted Liberal in 2006, not sure about last year. Probably Tory - after all, it was the strongest Tory riding in Ontario IIRC.

In 2001 Census, 45.2% Catholic and Protestant 43%. Religion is only asked each ten years.

[deansherratt]

Good stuff Maxque! Very quick research. However I expect that Renfrew changes less than many other places, though there has been an incremental increase in "No religion".

[Hatman 🍁]

I drive through Renfrew County a lot, it's a beautiful drive up to North Bay. Deep River is a nice little town, but it's a recently developed "planned community", built for the Chalk River Atomic Laboratories.

Petawawa is of course very Conservative. If soldiers are anything like my cousin, then they are a pretty hardcore bunch.

There is one spot along highway 17 with a Cheryl Gallant billboard, only it is rather small and somewhat buried in the forest, so it's kind of random and not very visible. It's really weird. But then again, so is Cheryl.