Canada's most interesting election maps

[King of Kensington]

What are the most interesting Canadian election maps.  Here's a list that sticks out for me:

Ontario 1919
Federal 1921
Ontario 1943
Federal 1958
Ontario 1990
Federal 1993
British Columbia 1996
Alberta 2012 and 2015

[Harlow]

Quebec 2007 (a competitive three-way race is always fascinating)
Federal 2011 (mainly for Quebec)
New Brunswick 2018
PEI 2019
British Columbia 2024 (lol)

[Neo-Malthusian Misanthrope]

New Brunswick 1987 lol

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

New Brunswick 1987 lol

They had to select some government members to act as a designated opposition. Lol.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

PEI Liberals won 30/30 seats in 1935.

[Hatman 🍁]

2014 Toronto mayor

[CumbrianLefty]

New Brunswick 1987 lol

They had to select some government members to act as a designated opposition. Lol.

Ha, that's hilarious.

[King of Kensington]

The 1943 Ontario map is quite interesting.  The CCF formed official opposition, and actually did pretty decently in the rural areas, including the (then)-rural areas surrounding Toronto.  Then you have the two LPP (Communist) MLAs representing heavily Jewish areas of Toronto.

The NDP's 1990 win in Ontario is unimaginable today.  The "905" area code has not yet gone into existence and you could win without Toronto's surrounding regions then.  It was really in 1995 that the 905 came into political importance.  Also the NDP did really well in the rurals.  The PCs came a poor third in that election, and small right-wing parties like Family Coalition Party and Coalition of Regions had strong showings in some ridings.  So some NDP rural wins were flukes (Elgin, Huron, Prince Edward-Hastings).  But they won some central Ontario rural seats like Muskoka and Haliburton with over 40% of the vote (i.e. not a "fluke" in a multi-party system).

[ꙮ]

Does 1917 have interesting maps? After reading a bit about it a while back I concluded it was the only Canadian election that was actually rigged.

[King of Kensington]

Yes it does.  Most interesting is where the Liberals won outside Quebec.  Most notable was the win in Waterloo County where a majority were of German origin and whose ancestry in Canada went back to the mid-19th century (so they weren't disenfranchised as few were actually German-born at that point).   The best result for the Liberals outside Quebec was Cape Breton - don't know why.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Yes it does.  Most interesting is where the Liberals won outside Quebec.  Most notable was the win in Waterloo County where a majority were of German origin and whose ancestry in Canada went back to the mid-19th century (so they weren't disenfranchised as few were actually German-born at that point).   The best result for the Liberals outside Quebec was Cape Breton - don't know why.

https://amp.tvo.org/article/a-look-at-one-of-the-ugliest-federal-election-campaigns-in-canadian-history
More on that here.

[King of Kensington]

2014 Toronto mayor

Yes the progressive/establishmentarian/populist split was fascinating to see mapped.

[Hatman 🍁]

Yes it does.  Most interesting is where the Liberals won outside Quebec.  Most notable was the win in Waterloo County where a majority were of German origin and whose ancestry in Canada went back to the mid-19th century (so they weren't disenfranchised as few were actually German-born at that point).   The best result for the Liberals outside Quebec was Cape Breton - don't know why.

One wonders what the stories are behind the other Liberal victories outside Quebec were. Prescott and Russell are obvious (French Canadians). Renfrew South was probably because of the Polish (Prussian) diaspora. Essex was probably because of Catholics or something. Kent didn't even have a Unionist candidate! Not sure what was going on in Bruce South or Middlesex West. Provencher in Manitoba was probably because of French and Germans. Victoria, Alta (Vegreville area) was probably because of Franco-Albertans. Lunenburg, NS was German, not sure about Antigonish-Guysborough, Inverness had a sizable Acadian population, as did Prince, PEI and of course SE and Northern New Brunswick. Cape Breton might be because of Catholics.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Conscription Crisis is a fascinating demonstration of how entirely artificial the claims of and pretensions towards organic ties to France from contemporary Quebecker nationalists are. No sense at all of there being an ancient motherland from which the people had been sundered and to which there were continued emotional loyalties.

[King of Kensington]

Yes it does.  Most interesting is where the Liberals won outside Quebec.  Most notable was the win in Waterloo County where a majority were of German origin and whose ancestry in Canada went back to the mid-19th century (so they weren't disenfranchised as few were actually German-born at that point).   The best result for the Liberals outside Quebec was Cape Breton - don't know why.

One wonders what the stories are behind the other Liberal victories outside Quebec were. Prescott and Russell are obvious (French Canadians). Renfrew South was probably because of the Polish (Prussian) diaspora. Essex was probably because of Catholics or something. Kent didn't even have a Unionist candidate! Not sure what was going on in Bruce South or Middlesex West. Provencher in Manitoba was probably because of French and Germans. Victoria, Alta (Vegreville area) was probably because of Franco-Albertans. Lunenburg, NS was German, not sure about Antigonish-Guysborough, Inverness had a sizable Acadian population, as did Prince, PEI and of course SE and Northern New Brunswick. Cape Breton might be because of Catholics.

Bruce South had a significant German element.  Not sure what's happening in Kent or Middlesex.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The Conscription Crisis is a fascinating demonstration of how entirely artificial the claims of and pretensions towards organic ties to France from contemporary Quebecker nationalists are. No sense at all of there being an ancient motherland from which the people had been sundered and to which there were continued emotional loyalties.

Ah, but that was France of the Tricolour and the Republic.