Canadian federal polling division files

[MaxQue]

Since so many persons asked it, Oshawa. Sorry, the water line is not on the map.

[MaxQue]

Any demands for the next map?

[minionofmidas]

Do we have the Halifax agglomeration? I don't think we do.

[Hash]

Western Arctic would be nice.

[deansherratt]

Like a kid in a candy shop, I would like the Kitchener Waterloo Conurbation...

[deansherratt]

Hey everyone. I took the opportunity to look through my paper map collection in order to see what maps I might add when I am able to post. Among the more interesting are York South in 1953 (Noseworthy's last win for the CCF - he defeated Arthur Meighen in the famous 1942 By-election) and 1962 - David Lewis' first victory federally. I also have Trinity in 1949 - showing the last relatively strong Communist vote in a federal riding (Tim Buck won about 20-30 polls, mostly in the Kensington Market area). Ditto for the Toronto Mayoral contests of David Crombie/Rotenberg/O'Donahue in 1971 and Sewell/Eggleton (?) in 1981 or so? I finally have quite a collection of federal maps of Etobicoke from the 1970s and 1980s - that is when I started out mapping and I lived in Etobicoke Centre.

I also have some maps that I purchased or got over the years. A rather unusual one is a UK general election from about 1885 or so. It was a pretty big Liberal victory and also shows the Irish Nationalists taking most of the seats in Ireland by acclamation.

Anyway, I should get posting privileges soon and look forward to a big download.

[minionofmidas]

Like a kid in a candy shop, I would like the Kitchener Waterloo Conurbation...

Echoed.

And London. And Thunder Bay.

[Hatman 🍁]

There are still so many places I want to see. Too bad JP stopped posting maps, apparently he is busy with work. He told me it was only taking 20 minutes to do a riding, while I assume it takes much longer for MaxQue.

[MaxQue]

There are still so many places I want to see. Too bad JP stopped posting maps, apparently he is busy with work. He told me it was only taking 20 minutes to do a riding, while I assume it takes much longer for MaxQue.

Around 2 hours for a riding, that is why my maps only have one riding at time.

Cities and agglomerations maps will take more much time, but I can try soon.

[Hatman 🍁]

I would like to see Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

[MaxQue]

Western Arctic. It is pretty obvious on the map than Bevington is from Fort Smith. The tie is a Green-NDP tie.

[Hatman 🍁]

Weird is all I can say...

[deansherratt]

One of the more interesting ones...an obvious distinction between north and south Oshawa but this is a riding that was thoroughly NDP for many years. The city first voted CCF in 1937, in large part to the reaction against Mitch Hepburn's calling in the police to break up an autoworkers strike but the riding as a whole (Ontario)remained Liberal.

It was Broadbent's fiefdom from 1968 till he retired from politics (the first time).

The demographic/political makeover of the riding became apapretn in 1995 when it went from massively NDP to solidly PC in the provincial election. The Reform/Alliance also ran well federally (1993/1997/2000) till the riding fell to the Conservatives in 2004. 

An interesting question is the extent to which Sid Ryan aids or hinders his cause - he has certainly run for election enough times.

[deansherratt]

Mississauga/Brampton and all of Metropolitian Toronto would be marvelous choices.

[deansherratt]

...and who could object to Quebec City?

[minionofmidas]

I do. Quebec City is hella depressing.

[deansherratt]

Why so? There aren't too many Bloc polls there and plenty of Tory ones...Can we cheer you up by trying to add Levis?

[minionofmidas]

You can cheer me up by doing Halifax first.

[Hash]

Why so?

Full of crazy people. Only the inner city is remotely sane.

Though I wouldn't object to doing Newfoundland!

[deansherratt]

I could probably do Saint Johns in five minutes with or without poll boundaries. Like the left and right lobes of Danny Williams' brain, all bright red and all bright orange with little differentiation. Bonavista might at least be a little engaging...the poll maps might also be interesting because of the many small outports.

[the506]

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

In any event....Halifax:

[Hatman 🍁]

Hard to believe the NDP only holds two of those seats.

My uncle lives in the west end of Dartmouth. (which appears to be hardcore NDP on this map) I wonder if he is a supporter. I'm actually going to stay at his place for the NDP convention in 2 weeks, so maybe I will find out.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hardcore Peter Stoffer, anyway lolz.

[deansherratt]

Great additions! Doing more than one riding at a time gives remarkable context...

[deansherratt]

While the Green vote in Calgary is larger than you think, I wouldn't put that city on my number one option for the next map list...