Canadian federal polling division files

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All of Nova Scotia and PEI (except for Bill Casey's seat) have been covered already, so let's go to New Brunswick.


This is me trying to get Miramichi and Beausejour on one map:


As an aside...there was one Liberal poll and a couple of ties in Acadie-Bathurst that was cut off the map...


Madawaska-Restigouche:



The other rural NB ridings were all clean Tory sweeps except for a few reserves and one odd Tory-NDP tie in Fundy-Royal.

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Onto Quebec now....

Manicouagan:

There was also a reserve just east of Sept-Iles that voted Liberal.

Portneuf-Jacques Cartier...Andre Arthur's riding:


Trois-Rivieres area:

All the polls that were cut off voted Bloc. The inset in the top left is part of Saint-Maurice-Champlain...I have no idea how the hell that one poll voted Green....there were only 20 votes in that poll and the Green candidate got 10. Doesn't look like anyone even lives there on my road map.

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Honestly, I can't explain those Tory enclaves in Madawaska County...other than long-standing tradition. There's a lot of "I vote for party X because my father did and my grandfather did, etc, etc" in rural Atlantic Canada, even if they don't agree with them on the issues.

The best example I can think of are the towns of Kedgwick and St-Quentin, in western Restigouche County. Kedgwick always votes Liberal and St-Quentin always votes Tory, even though the demographics are exactly the same. The old provincial riding of Restigouche West was centered on those two towns, and during the 1987 McKenna sweep it was the closest race - because St-Quentin still didn't give up its blue roots.

Now, that said, Bernard Valcourt was from the Edmundston area, and Percy Mockler (senior Lord cabinet minister and current senator) is from St-Leonard which also voted Tory, but there's gotta be more to it than that.

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More Quebec:

Megantic-L'Erable:



Drummond:

(Also note the odd NDP poll next door in Richmond-Arthabaska....)


Compton-Stanstead:



Brome-Missisquoi and Shefford:



Beauharnois-Salaberry and Vaudreuil-Soulanges:



Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel:

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The blue on the Avalon peninsula is definitely Manning coattails...that's his home area.

The blue splotch in Beausejour is for two different reasons. Right around Moncton is a heavily anglophone area that should culturally probably be in Fundy-Royal. The area to the north going through St-Antoine and Bouctouche is francophone but is the CPC candidate's home.

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Alright now....off to Ontario:

Cornwall...every rural poll in the riding went Tory:



Glengarry-Prescott-Russell:



Kingston and the Islands:



Prince Edward-Hastings....there was actually one more Liberal poll near Tweed:



Peterborough:



Cobourg and Port Hope...every other poll in Northumberland-Qunite West was either Tory or covered in other maps:



Durham region:

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I believe much of that blue area near Moncton was part of Fundy-Royal prior to re-distribution, although I believe the Tories won pretty much every poll that was transferred from Beausejour-Petiticodiac to Fundy-Royal

That particular area never belonged to Fundy-Royal...before it was part of Beausejour, it was part of the Moncton riding.

(And I still can't get over how ridiculous Beausejour-Petitcodiac was....merging a Franco region with one that once voted for COR.)

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Southwest Ontario today...

Barrie:



Orillia:

Those NDP splotches are the Rama reserve.


Kitchener-Waterloo:



Brant and Haldimand-Norfolk:

The indy who won all those polls in the Caledonia area is Gary McHale, a major opponent to the native protests there.


St. Catharines and Niagara Falls:



Oxford:



London:



St. Thomas and the Lenape First Nation:



Chatham and Kent:

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Alright....Northern Ontario....

Here's the southern part of Algoma-Manitoulin, Nickel Belt and Nipissing-Timiskaming:


North Bay inset:


Sudbury inset:


New Liskeard/Haileybury/Cobalt inset:


Sault Ste. Marie:


Northern part of Algoma-Manitoulin:


Thunder Bay:


Rural NW Ontario:

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Right here!

Manitoba...

Churchill:



The rest of rural southern Manitoba was a sea of blue with a few bits of orange here and there (mostly First Nations I'm guessing). Some of the cities were somewhat interesting though:

Brandon:


Portage la Prairie:


Selkirk:

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Saskatchewan.....

Churchill River:



Prince Albert:



The Battlefords:

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Alberta...most rural ridings are about as dark blue as you can get, but there are some exceptions:

Crowfoot:



Wild Rose:



The north...all the cities were still Tory sweeps:

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and, finally, BC...

Northern BC:


Southern BC:


Prince George:


Kelowna:


Vernon:


The parts of the Fraser valley I didn't do last time:



Hope you all enjoyed it!

Now to work on Google Earth'ing all this data....