PunditsGuide concludes her top notch NDP leadership coverage with the vote breakdown of advance and in-person ballots. White Nathan Cullen “won” the convention vote, Mulcair had enough support among advanced voters that he could have dropped his pants and sung La Marseillaise during his Friday night speech, and likely still
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CalgaryGrit: Crunching Numbers
Now that the shock of Lise St-Denis’ floor crossing has worn off, it’s worth looking ahead to whether Jean Chretien’s old riding will stay Liberal red in the next election. Eric Grenier at 308 likes her chances: If Lise St-Denis, the MP for Saint-Maurice–Champlain who defected to the Liberals from
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Redistribution Winners and Losers
Even though it was the right decision, the Harper government likely didn’t do itself any electoral favours by shutting Quebec out of the new ship building contract and the 15,000 jobs that go with it. However, they did announce two new jobs they will b…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Fun with cluster analysis
This is really a propos nothing in particular, but I stumbled across a nifty bit of analysis looking at the voting records of Toronto City Councillors. Using a cluster classification, the numerically-gifted Buzzdata user “Haz” was able to group City Co…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Fun with Numbers: The Conservatives
Last month, I looked at ridings where the Liberals exceeded expectations. Today, a look at ridings where the Tories did better than we would have thought given what was going on around them. If you’re confused about what the numbers in brackets mean, c…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Fun with Numbers: The Liberals
As we learned last election, when the political wave rises, it’s hard to avoid it. If ever you wanted evidence of just how powerless local campaigns are, look no further than some of the quality men and women who were defeated by phantom candidates who…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Fun with Numbers: Most Volatile Ridings
Unless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (ha ha ha!), we’ll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election.So for kicks this summer, I’m looking back at life in the old ridings over the past four elections. I already posted a list …
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Could Have Been Elections: The Liberal-Democrats
In response to my previous “what if” post on running elxn41 under a preferential ballot, a few blog readers wondered how the election would have turned out had there been a Liberal-NDP merger.The challenge with that kind of analysis is that we have no …
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: What Could Have Been: Elxn41 Under a Preferential Ballot
One of the democratic reform initiatives that never seems to get much publicity is the preferential ballot. Yet it’s simple, assures the majority of the riding backs the winning candidate, and helps avoid some of the dangerous strategic voting mis-step…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Most Exciting Ridings in Canada
We’ve now had 4 elections under the current 308 riding electoral map, a period over which the Canadian political landscape has completely transformed itself.2004:2011:Still, that doesn’t mean every local election has been exciting – after all, if you l…
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