Religious Denomination Maps

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Here is Canada:

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Here is Ontario by riding (congressional districts)

Votes by religion

Jewish ridings: 1 Liberal
Non religious ridings: 5 Liberal, 2 NDP
Catholic ridings: 30 Liberal, 9 NDP, 7 Conservative
Protestant ridings: 34 Conservative, 18 Liberal, 1 NDP

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Why are Protestants so conservative?

In Ontario, politics was traditionally split down sectarian lines; Anglicans tended to be Tory, Catholics tended to be Liberals. Even though the sectarianism that sparked it has gone, the voting patterns remain... up to a point anyway (note the death of the federal Liberals in Catholic rural areas).

Not to mention the fact that Paul Martin is catholic and Stephen Harper is protestant.  The Liberal leaders have had a tendancy to be catholic over time. Only 4 Liberal PMs have been protestant (most recently Pearson and he left in 1968). Only three catholic PMs have been Conservative (Mulroney and Clark the last two).

The NDP surprises me though. I don't think we've ever had a catholic leader and yet we dont do well in protestant ridings (in Ontario).

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I'm not surprised by Washington's lack of religion.

Here is Ontario by riding (congressional districts)

Votes by religion

Jewish ridings: 1 Liberal
Non religious ridings: 5 Liberal, 2 NDP
Catholic ridings: 30 Liberal, 9 NDP, 7 Conservative
Protestant ridings: 34 Conservative, 18 Liberal, 1 NDP

I believe that Jewish riding has most of my Jewish relatives living there. They are all liberals, and everything in that part of Toronto is very Jewish.

FYI, Thornhill is not actually in Toronto, it's a suburb.

Here is Canada:

Interesting. I'm surprised that:

1. Quebec is still as Catholic as it is

2. protestants or catholics outnumber "no religion" in most of Ontario

3. that so much of Ontario is Catholic (though I don't know...is that due to spillover from Quebec?)

1. They are very catholic, just not at all religious.
2. Not really. Ontario can be very traditional in terms of religion. Not like those hippies out in BC
3. I wouldn't call it a spill over necessarily. Areas with high French/ Italian/ Irish populations will have a lot of Catholics.