2013 Elections in Canada

[Hatman 🍁]

Nova Scotia will probably be going to the polls this fall to pass judgement on their rookie NDP government.  There will be one fewer seat in the Legislature after a contentious redistribution process, where the government overruled the initial report of the independent electoral boundaries commission.

Here's a map of the Metro Halifax area that shows the results of the 2009 provincial election by polling division overlaid by the new electoral district boundaries.

All that orange is quite beautiful. I suppose this map will look quite different after the election- but not as bad as other parts of the province.

Has anyone calculated what the seat distribution would have been in Nova Scotia 2009 if it had been fought on these new boundaries?

I think Elections Nova Scotia did this.

Elections NS redid their site last month and the notional results were taken down in the shuffle

Only thing that really changed was that the Inverness by-election would have been won by the Liberals instead of the Tories had it taken place with the new ridings.

[Smid]

I saved the PDF, so even if it's down, I think I still have it. Happened to take the external hard drive travelling with me, too, can probably email it to Earl in the next day or so (email me at the gmail account I sent you last week, so I have your address).