Canadian federal polling division files

[MaxQue]

Hey CP...The Liberals probably have the decision to take. The NDP and Bloc will vote to defeat the government, whether or not it is in their interests.

I wonder if the Liberals will suffer a momentary backlash if they do so and then if they think they can generate a good enough campaign to defeat the Conservatives...just adding a few seats to their total seems rather pointless.

We must also remember that in 2006 the election was won in the campaign - polls now are tight, suggesting Liberal gains, but just relying on that is quite a gamble.

Tha is in the interest of the Bloc to defeat the government. Harper is hated to much in Quebec than explaining why they are keeping it in place would be difficult.

[MaxQue]

I've been working on a Hamilton map - but does anyone know how to tell the numbers of polls that have been split? When, say, 156 has been split into 156 and 156-1, the GIS "Identify" function just gives both of them as "156".

If I can't figure this out I'll just guess - it's only a small handful of polls, mainly at the south end of Hamilton Mountain, and you can kind of see what order the polls are numbered in. Plus the split poll often votes the same way as the old poll.

The second number is written in the field ''PD_NBR_SFX''.

[MaxQue]

You missed Malahide in Elgin County, by the way

And Simcoe County.

[MaxQue]

The Nova Scotia map looks rather random.

Well, a riding map of Nova Scotia looks random too.

[MaxQue]

So, green poll in Vaudreuil-Soulanges is in Hemmingford, a little town whose main attraction is well-known "Parc Safari", a zoo where people are in their cars and animals around them.

Green poll in Granby is next to the Granby zoo, yes.

The liberal city on lower-left on Mégantic-L'Érable map and right of the Drummond map is in the Richmond-Arthabaska riding. It is the city of Richmond, who has a very big Irish community.

The NDP poll up in the map of Drummond is in Richmond-Arthabaska. It is in the town of Sainte-Clothilde-de-Horton (St. Clothilde of Horton). The NDP candidate in Richmond-Arthabaska was living in this town.

[MaxQue]

Select a riding, and go where detailed results are. Above that, there is some thumbnails. There is Results for Results, Financials for money spend by the candidates, Census for some census data, "Google Maps" to see the poll map colored, "Poll-by-Poll" for knowing how polls each party won and EDA to know the district associations. Only 2000 and 2008 elections are avaliable for now.

[MaxQue]

homelycooking, some of those software are freely avaliable on Internet. At least, they were last year.

Hashemite, you'll be happy, the same maps are now avaliable for the Quebec. Precincts maps for the same software than federal ridings. On DGEQ website, if you want to know.

[MaxQue]

Perhaps next week, for me.

[MaxQue]

Giga-bump, sorry.

Since there was an by-election recently in Kamouraska-Témiscouata, I decided to do a precinct map of the 2008 election in Kamouraska-Témiscouata. Not very interesting, but could be interesting once (if?) the DGEQ publish detailed results of the special election.

Liberals are red, PQ blue, ADQ green. Atlas Key.



Two of the ADQ precincts are in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska. The other one is in Cabano, the city from where the ADQ was. (Since then, Cabano and Notre-Dame-du-Lac merged.)

The darker PQ precinct is in Auclair. According to Census, that is a village with a very high unemployment rate, 100% of French people and half the population didn't finished high school. They also have 40 maple products producers and a "economuseum" which sells alcoholic beverages based on maple syrup. The lighter one in Saint-Juste-du-Lac. Same characteristics than in Auclair. Economy in those both town is based on maple and forestry. Both place are very poor, mean income in those towns is around 65% of the Quebec mean income.

We can also see than Liberal support is higher in cities than rural areas, that is normal and widespread in all Quebec. The inverse applies to BQ, too.

[MaxQue]

Anyone care to do the Vaughan by-election?

That is not possible, 54 new polling sections (from 199 to 253) were created between 2008 election and the by-election and I don't have the new map.