Ukraine
I presume that most readers are at least vaguely aware of the situation in the Ukraine. While there are many complex reasons for what is happening, I will do as…
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Newfoundland Liberals
The Newfoundland Liberals have 11 MLAs in the legislature. I want to do a short examination of them. Dwight BallBall is the leader, and former interim leader. His riding is…
Future of the Senate
One of the more important but little noticed things to come out of all the Senate talk yesterday was the ruling of the speaker. Speaker Kinsella read off the rules…
2014
As this year draws to a close I thought it’d be important to look ahead at what will and could happen next year. Anytime:Elections could happen at any time in…
Graphics, Maps, and the Colourblind
One concern of mine, always in the back of my head, is it the things I do are accessible. I make a lot of maps; that’s kind of “Teddy’s Thing”…
Around the world: UK Projection
UKLets start with a map! If you want a bigger view, you can right-click and open it in a new tab or window. This is a projection that’s based on…
Answering the West Lothian Question
Wikipedia has a great page on this. In short, in the UK, they have Devolution. To simplify greatly, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have “Provincial” parliaments, while England does not.…
Quebec Update – Federal Projection
I’ve been able to run a new projection for Quebec based on some new polling numbers. In short, we see a massive change from my last projection – one which…
Toronto – an electoral history
I made one of the terrible mistakes that all of us make from time to time here on the internet. I decided to read some user comments on a news…
Projection Update – Conservative win by 1 seat
I’m still working out some of the kinks in the newest ElectoMatic, but I wanted to update the projection that it’s provided me. To show that it is not biased…
Provinces, Senate, Montreal, and other randomness.
MONTREAL Earl Andrew, of the Canadian Election Atlas, has a great post on Montreal. I recommend checking it out. His adding of all the various popular votes is what I…
Latest projection – federal – and ElectoMatic lite version
Teddy here with a slight change in plan as to what I was planning to upload and when, in response to viewer count of previous posts. Therefore, without further adieu,…
2013 Montreal election results
First, lets cover the simple stuff. Denis Coderre, former Liberal MP, has been elected Mayor of Montreal. The results were as follows: 32.12% – 149,114 – Denis Coderre – EDC26.47%…
Toronto Polls (Mayor)
Recent polls by Forum show some interesting details.http://htl.li/qqXEohttp://htl.li/qqXyR I recognize almost all the names proposed except David Soknacki. According to Wikipedia, he ran for Mayor of Scarborough and was a…
New maps!
I’m still tinkering with the ElectoMatic, but I decided to go ahead and put out the new riding maps now. I still hope to have the ElectoMatic finished by this…
3-way tie for first and what is coming up
An Ipsos-Reid poll taken between the 16th and 28th of October (with a few days off for some reason) shows something that is rare in Federal politics http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/one-point-separates-liberals-tories-and-ndp-poll-1.1521349 A 3-way…
Royalties and Balanced Budgets
A year or two ago I decided to look into where provinces were spending and where they were getting their money. My objective was actually to prove that Ontario is…
Could the Conservative Party finish 3rd in 2015?
Simple answer: Ayeup! In fact if current trends continue, I’d expect it. How is this possible? For that answer we need to look at some past examples of a government…
Calgary Election
More analysis of what happened (a landslide) and what did not (a landslide as big as new Calgary mayors usually get) will likely come after sunrise. However, for the time…
The case for, and against, a progressive merger – based on math!
First, I want to address members of the audience from the UK, Australia, and places like that. It’s Math not Maths. Sorry 😛 but it is. Mathematics is not a…