[PhilippeMtl]

It may be interesting to discover your Electoral district and, in the same time, the place you live.

I will start with Rosement - La Petite-Patrie

Population: 103 000 (mostly francophone, small percentage of immigrant population)
City: Montreal



Last election results:

Bloc Québécois ( 56%)
Liberals (15.8%)
NDP (11.5%)
Conservatives ( 9.3%)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Rosemont-La_Petite-Patrie.png

Some Pictures

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/2736256027_97ed83b4cb.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2737090230_fb01dd464a.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2739428251_bafd04cc1e.jpg
(Pics by me)

[Rico Rommheim]

Mile End in the Outremont electoral district (its actually part of le Plateau)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Churches_of_montreal.jpg/800px-Churches_of_montreal.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e9/Wilensky.JPG/800px-Wilensky.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Outremont%2C_riding.png
all from wikipedia, right click on pic for link! Holz!

-Population of 95,000
-72.5% White (Greek, jewish, Italians, Portugese and canadian), 5.6% Black, 5.1% South Asian, 4.3% Arab, 2.7% Filipino, 2.7% Latin American, 2.5% Chinese

-44.8% French, 14.3% English, 37.7% Others


Its historically been one of the strongest Liberal ridings in the country, the home of the Trudeau family and many of Canada's elite. But in a bi-election last year the NDP won its first seat in QC in a long while.

Last Bi-elections

New Democrat: 11,374 - 47.5%
Liberal: 6,933 - 29.0%
BQ: 2,618 - 10.9%
Conservative: 2,052 - 8.6%
Green: 529 - 2.2%

[lubicon]

calgary West

Calgary West

This is a primarily residential riding running in a strip along the western edge of the city. It is bounded by the western city limits, Crowchild Trail Northwest, Bow Trail Southwest, Sarcee Trail Southwest and Glenmore Trail Southwest. The Bow River divides the riding into northern and southern portions.

Twenty-one per cent of the residents are immigrants. There are large German, Ukrainian and Polish communities. English is the mother tongue of 78 percent of the population, with francophones making up less than two per cent. Forty-three per cent of those over age 25 have a university certificate or degree.

The service sector and retail trade are major employers, as is mining and oil and gas extraction. The 2006 census shows an average family income of $143,641 – the second-highest in the province – and an unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent.

Calgary West was established in 1914 but abolished in 1952. It was re-established in 1976. In the 2004 redistribution, about 30 per cent of the riding was removed, while 6,350 people were added from Calgary Centre and 4,500 from Macleod.

Population: 132,162 (2006 census; an increase of 27.2% since 2001)

Political History
For the past four terms, Rob Anders has represented this riding. He came to office with the Reform party in 1997, defeating Liberal Dave Bronconnier. Then, in 2000, he beat Tory Jim Silye, formerly a Reform Party MP, by 19,963 votes. In 2004, he beat Liberal Justin Thompson by 14,920 votes. In the 2006 election, Anders defeated Liberal Jennifer Polluck to secure his seat again for the Conservatives.

Before Anders, this was the riding of current Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper gained office in 1993. In the previous election, he suffered a resounding defeat at the hands of Tory Jim Hawkes, who had held the riding since 1979.

1979-88 inclusive - PC
1993, 1997 - REF
2000 - CA
2004, 2006 - CON

[trueviking]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Winnipeg_South_Centre.png

Winnipeg South Centre

Current Member of Parliament is Anita Neville (Liberal)

This riding has gone Liberal in the last 6 elections, including three wins for former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy.

Was once the only Liberal seat in western canada....it is quite likely that after this election it will be the only Liberal seat on the Prairies.

A weak Liberal candidate has seen support for that party decline in successive elections. Polls show a Liberal win in this election, but a much closer race than before.

A large part of the riding is also the only Liberal seat in the Provincial Legislature.

The conservative candidate is Trevor Kennerd, former Winnipg Blue Bomber place kicker.

the riding includes some of the most dense residential neighbourhoods in the city, including Osborne Village, River Heights and Crescentwood

most of the riding looks like this:

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5108/trees3nr3.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/46/winnipegtreesqp3.jpg

winnipeg south centre includes corydon, winnipeg's most popular pedestiran street.

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7717/corydon5vx0.jpg

the riding includes the big clump of residential towers of osborne village in the foreground and the single family residential around it...the street running diagonally from the bottom left corner is corydon.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/4866/1111117yzmb0.jpg

[vid]

Thunder Bay--Rainy River

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Thunder_Bay%E2%80%94Rainy_River.png

Population: 85,153, of which 63,180 are eligible to vote.

The riding has voted Liberal since it was created in 2004, and its predecessors have voted Liberal except for the period from 1984 to 1993 where NDP MP Iain Angus was elected (he's now on our city council) and before 1935, when Robert James Manion (the Progressive Conservative leader at the time) represented the riding. (Manion was the last Conservative to serve from NWO until 2007, when Joe Comuzzi crossed the floor.) This riding is currently represented by Ken Boshcoff (Liberal).

Unrelated but interesting fact: The riding of Kenora (and its predecessors) haven't elected a conservative since it was part of the ridings that include Port Arthur and Fort William. Except for the period between 1984 and 1988, it has always been Liberal.

Thunder Bay is the only city in Northern Ontario to have its urban area split between two ridings. The other is Thunder Bay--Superior North.

Last election results:

Liberal - 13,525
New Democrat - 12,862
Conservative - 10,485
Green - 1,189
Marijuana - 424

This election, the NDP will mostly likely gain the seat.

Pictures:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2847152541_d87d169d68.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/2847152541/)
(Photo by me (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/))
My street, the riding's poorest neighbourhood. (Some First Nations may be poorer but there are relatively few of them in this riding than other Northern Ontario ridings.)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2861310553_78e2816134.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29327641@N03/2861310553/)
(Photo by TBT1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29327641@N03/))
One of the less urban, more middle class neighbourhoods. This is Westfort (lower half) and Northwood (upper half).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2339/2182584999_2337fdac19.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkheadedbug/2182584999/)
(Photo by John Brownlow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkheadedbug/))

Downtown Atikokan, a town of 2,000 (was once 8,000) is the third largest community in the riding.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2619671730_6dec0476b7.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/punchup/2619671730/)
(Photo by Punchup (http://www.flickr.com/photos/punchup/))

Fort Francis court house. The town of 8,000 is the fourth largest community in Northwestern Ontario, and the second largest in the riding.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2851526219_9182fcc136.jpg
(Photo by Brian D. Tucker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/riparian/))

Kakabeka Falls, the 'Niagara of the North' is in the riding and will have to do as a wilderness shot.

[raggedy13]

Vancouver Quadra

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Vancouver_Quadra.png

Population: 119,627
- 69.2% White, 21.3% Chinese, 1.9% South Asian, 1.6% Korean, 1.6% Japanese, 1.0% Aboriginal

Last election results:
Liberal: 28,285 - 48.84%
Conservative: 16,844 - 29.09%
NDP: 9,321 - 16.1%
Green: 2,979 - 5.14%
Independent: 263 - 0.5%
Marijuana: 158 - 0.28%
Marxist Leninist: 41 - 0.09%

Last by-election results:
Liberal: 10,155 - 36.05%
Conservative: 10,004 - 35.52%
NDP: 4,064 - 14.43%
Green: 3,792 - 13.46%
Neorhino.ca: 110 - 0.39%
Canadian Action: 40 - 0.14%

http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/bc/vancouver/2007/vch2007_651.jpg

[someone123]

I live in Vancouver Centre. Hedy Fry is the incumbent and is a little crazy.

[KrisYYC]

Calgary Southwest

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Calgary-fed-el-2006-South-west.png


Population: 120,750 (2006)

Last election:

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stephen Harper 41,549 71.96%
Liberal Michael Swanson 6,573 11.38%
NDP Holly Heffernan 4,628 8.02%
Green Kim Warnke 4,407 7.63% $1,800
Christian Heritage Larry Heather 579 1.00%

Photos:

I can't find any photos that convey the pure awesomeness of Calgary Southwest. Picture Beverly Hills, and take it up a couple of notches ;)

Just kidding, I'm too lazy.

[The Jabroni]

Winnipeg: Kildonan - St. Paul
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Kildonan%E2%80%94St._Paul.png
Population: 81,532

2006 Election Results

Conservative - Joy Smith 17,524 43.1%
Liberal - Terry Duguid 13,597 33.5%
New Democrat - Evelyn Myskiw 8,193 20.2%
Green - Colleen Zobel 1,101 2.7%
Independent - Eduard Hiebert 213 0.5%

Total valid votes: 40,628 100.00%
Total rejected ballots: 137
Turnout: 40,765 out of the possible 61,774 electors, which is ~66% voter turnout in Kildonan - St. Paul riding.

2008 Candidates

Conservative - Joy Smith (incumbent)
Liberal - Leslie Hughes
NDP - Ross Eadie
Green - Kevan Bowkett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildonan%E2%80%94St._Paul

This riding has been Conservative from the last 2 elections. This electoral district was formed with the former Winnipeg North - St. Paul, Winnipeg North Centre, and part of Winnipeg - Transcona ridings.

[CCF]

Was once the only Liberal seat in western canada....it is quite likely that after this election it will be the only Liberal seat on the Prairies.


I'm not so sure about that. I'd be very surprised if Ralph Goodale doesn't win his seat in the Wascana riding. Conservatives are running a strong candidate but I don't know if it'll be enough to beat Goodale.

[trueviking]

I'm not so sure about that. I'd be very surprised if Ralph Goodale doesn't win his seat in the Wascana riding. Conservatives are running a strong candidate but I don't know if it'll be enough to beat Goodale.

thats true, good point....as well, winnipeg's french community st. boniface might re-elect raymond simard, but it will be a tight one...there is a strong liberal candidate in reg alcock's old riding too...

i think the only prairie riding the liberals can take to the bank is winnipeg south centre, but there may be one or two others....

[CCF]

If Goodale doesn't win his seat then I've lost faith in the voters of Regina.

Furthermore, I'd suspect a strong showing from Liberal candidate Cal Johnston in the Palliser riding. He is the former police chief of Regina and the incumbent MP Dave Batters is not running.

Here's hoping Saskatchewan returns some Liberals along with Goodale.

[Distill3d]

North Vancouver

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j155/starfcuk/North_Vancouver.png

(photo and information credit: wikipedia.org)

This riding was created in 1987 from portions of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano electoral districts

Population (2006): 122,371
Electors (2006): 85,876
Area (km²): 433
Pop. density (per km²): 282.6


Current Election:

Liberal candidate and current MP: Don Bell
Conservative candidate: Andrew Saxton
NDP candidate: Michael Charrois
Green candidate: Jim Stephenson

2006 Election Results:
votes percentage
Liberal: Don Bell 25,357 (42.34%)
Conservative: Cindy Silver 22,021 (36.77%)
NDP: Sherry Shaghaghi 7,903 (13.19%)
Green: Jim Stephenson 4,483 (7.48%)

[Distill3d]

North Vancouver

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j155/starfcuk/North_Vancouver.png

(photo and information credit: wikipedia.org)

This riding was created in 1987 from portions of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano electoral districts

Population (2006): 122,371
Electors (2006): 85,876
Area (km²): 433
Pop. density (per km²): 282.6


Current Election:

Liberal candidate and current MP: Don Bell
Conservative candidate: Andrew Saxton
NDP candidate: Michael Charrois
Green candidate: Jim Stephenson

2006 Election Results:
votes percentage
Liberal: Don Bell 25,357 (42.34%)
Conservative: Cindy Silver 22,021 (36.77%)
NDP: Sherry Shaghaghi 7,903 (13.19%)
Green: Jim Stephenson 4,483 (7.48%)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver_(electoral_district)

[e909]

Edmonton Strathcona

Population 99,267

http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/maps/48018.gif

Incumbent: Rahim Jaffer, Conservative

2006 Results:
Conservative Rahim Jaffer 22,009 41.7%
New Democratic Party Linda Duncan 17,153 32.5%
Liberal Andy Hladyshevsky 9,391 17.8%
Green Cameron Wakefield 3,139 5.9%
Progressive Canadian Party Michael Fedeyko 582 1.1%
Marijuana Dave Dowling 390 0.7%
Marxist-Leninist Kevan Hunter 106 0.2%


(South of River)
http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/ab/edmonton/1996/edh1996_094.jpg

[fever]

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[fever]

I live in Vancouver Centre. Hedy Fry is the incumbent and is a little crazy.

Which one isn't?

Vancouver Centre (just in case you're not familiar with it)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Vancouver_Centre.png

Hedy Fry (L) has held the riding since defeating Kim Campbell in 1993

Liberal - Hedy Fry (incumbent)
New Democrat - Michael Byers (Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC)
Conservative - Lorne Mayencourt (incumbent Liberal MLA for Vancouver Burrard)
Green - Adriane Carr (Deputy Green leader and former provincial Green leader)


Election results from last time

Liberal - Hedy Fry - 43.80%
New Democrat - Svend Robinson - 28.67%
Conservative - Tony Fogarassy - 20.46%
Green - Jared Evans - 5.84%

Where are you guys getting the demographics from?

[vid]

Statistics Canada has a page for them, I can't remember how to get to them though. They also show federal ridings on the map.

[fever]

I didn't see it in community profiles on statscan

[NetMapel]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/South_Surrey%E2%80%94White_Rock%E2%80%94Cloverdale.png

South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale district

We've voted for Conservatives in the past 2 elections :P

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Thewhitreock.jpg
The white rock

[Boreal]

Winnipeg South
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Winnipeg_South.png

Population: ~90,000 (my own adjustment from the 2006 level of 84,424 as this is by far and away the fastest growing riding in Winnipeg)

This is the riding of long time Liberal and overseer of the treasury, Reg Alcock. This was (with my help) poached in the 2006 election by Conservative Rod Bruinooge by only 111 votes:

Rod Bruinooge 17,328 for 41.42% of the pop. vote
Reg Alcock 17,217 for 41.15% of the pop. vote

Every other party is completely irrelevant in this riding. Latest polls (Winnipeg Free Press) had Bruinooge ahead by 7% on Liberal candidate John Loewen who lost out to Stephen Fletcher in St.James - Assiniboia in 2006. This riding has an unprecedented level of planned housing starts looking to add some 60,000+++ people in the not too distant future.

Judging by little more than the predominance of coloured lawn signs in the riding, 2008 should offer Bruinooge a little bit more breathing room.

As far as picitures go - well, it's Manitoba's classic suburban neighbourhood. Many, many big box stores, big highway, single family detached homes, with 2-3 cars in the driveway, and pleasant street names that are coined after the animal habitat they destroyed, such as Deer Run Drive, and Meadowbank.

[Rico Rommheim]

^ You voted for some guy called "Rod"?

[MolsonExport]

It may be interesting to discover your Electoral district and, in the same time, the place you live.

I will start with Rosement - La Petite-Patrie



Great idea for a thread.



I am an ex-Montrealer, ex-Vancouverite, ex-Kelownite, ex-Edmontoner, currently living in London, Ontario.

My riding:

London West is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Its population in 2006 was 118,335. The district includes the northwest part of the City of London.

Incumbent: Sue Barnes (Liberal)....since 1993.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/University_College_Building_University_of_Western_Ontario_1.jpg

[MonkeyRonin]

Eglinton-Lawrence
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/202/eglintonlawrencewd1.png

2006 Election results:
Liberal 52.89% - Joe Volpe
Conservative 30.25% - Peter Coy
NDP 11.49% - Maurganne Mooney
Green 5.12% - Patrick Metzger

Population: 110,066
Electors: 73,201
Area: 24
Density: 4,586/km²


A few pictures I grabbed off Live Local:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7497/allensu6.jpg

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5710/eglintonwestnx2.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8314/marquetteuz0.jpg

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3811/bathursteglintonsz6.jpg

[drew]

Winnipeg Centre

Where I live in the 100 year old Wolesley neighbourhood, along the southern fringes north of the Assiniboine River. It is currently an absolute NDP lock with Pat Martin as the incumbent.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Winnipeg_Centre.png

This riding is in downtown Winnipeg. It runs from the Assiniboine River in the south to the CP Rail line in the northeast and between the Red River in the east and Ferry Road, Sherwin and Airport Road and Brookside Boulevard in the west.

The riding is home to the University of Winnipeg.

The manufacturing sector is the major employer, followed by health care and social services, and then retail trade.

According to the 2006 census, 27 per cent of residents are immigrants and 18 per cent are aboriginal. Almost 15 per cent listed Filipino as their ethnic origin, followed by German at 12 per cent. The average family income is $52,933 and unemployment is eight per cent.

This riding was established in the 1996 redistribution as Winnipeg North, gaining 63 per cent of Winnipeg North Centre, 30 per cent of Winnipeg-St. James, six per cent of Winnipeg North and two per cent of Winnipeg South Centre. The name changed to Winnipeg Centre after the passage of a private member's bill in 1996. In 2004, redistribution left 92 per cent of the old riding and added 12 per cent of Winnipeg South Centre and three per cent from Winnipeg North Centre.

Population: 81,017 (2006 census; an increase of 0.1% since 2001)

Political History
In 2006, New Democrat Pat Martin earned a fourth term after he won over Liberal candidate Ray St. Germain by 6,865 votes. Martin defeated Liberal David Northcott by 2,864 votes in 2004 and Liberal Kevin Lamoureux in 2000. His first federal election was against another Liberal candidate, David Walker. Martin won that 1997 contest by 1,084 votes.

Winnipeg North Centre was home to J.S. Woodsworth, founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He was elected in 1925 as the Labour candidate, following the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.

He held the seat for Labour and later the CCF until his death in 1942. In a byelection in 1942, Stanley Knowles of the CCF was elected. He won all elections up to and including 1980, except for one loss to PC John MacLean in the 1958 Tory sweep. Knowles suffered a stroke in 1981. In 1984, New Democrat Cyril Keeper, incumbent from Winnipeg-St. James in 1980, ran and won in Winnipeg North Centre.

He was defeated in 1988 by Liberal David Walker, who also won in 1993.

Winnipeg North Centre:
1925, 1926, 1930 - LAB
1935-57 - CCF
1958 - PC
1962-84 - NDP
1988, 1993 - LIB
Winnipeg Centre:
1997, 2000, 2004, 2006 - NDP

2006 Election Results:
New Democrat Pat Martin 13,805 48.4% +3.02%
Liberal Ray St. Germain 6,940 24.3% -10.38%
Conservative Helen Sterzer 5,554 19.5% +5.94%
Green Gary Gervais 2,010 7.1% +2.81%
Communist Anna-Celestrya Carr 199 0.7% +0.27%


Just for shits and giggles, here are the results from 1921:
Labour James Shaver Woodsworth 7,774
Conservative Norman Kitson McIvor 4,034
Liberal John W. Wilton 4,032
Independent Harriet S. Dick 2,314
Independent George William Andrew 1,220

[mylesmalley]

Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe.png

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=46.088918~-64.777493&style=a&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&ss=yp.new%20york~pg.1&encType=1

Riding includes much of Moncton and its suburbs, with just over 80,000 voters. It's by far the most densely populated riding in the province (although that isn't saying a lot, being in New Brunswick). Moncton is one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

It's been a Liberal riding since 1979, with the exception of one term in the eighties. The riding is currently held by Brian Murphy, formerly mayor of Monton. Before that, it was held by Claudette Bradshaw, who was minister of labour.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Moncton_marriott_downtown6.png/800px-Moncton_marriott_downtown6.png
wikimedia

[mylesmalley]

Winnipeg South

Rod Bruinooge 17,328 for 41.42% of the pop. vote
Reg Alcock 17,217 for 41.15% of the pop. vote


lol Rod vs Alcock
sigh...I miss being 13. 2000 was a great year.

[GDS]

Brossard-LaPrairie

On the South Shore of Montreal, covers among others, the suburbs of Brossard, La Prairie and Candiac. 23% of the population is considered immigrant with the largest group being Chinese at 8%. The vast majority of immigrants are located in the municipality of Brossard. This is one of the fastest growing areas of Montreal with a population increase of 13.5% from 2001-2006.

Total Population: 113,985
Brossard: 71,154
La Prairie: 21,763
Candiac: 15,947

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Brossard%E2%80%94La_Prairie.png/200px-Brossard%E2%80%94La_Prairie.png

The riding was liberal till 2006 when the Bloc took over with 2% victory over incumbent Jacques Saada (Minister for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and Minister responsible for La Francophonie). Jacques Saada has retired from politics and the Liberals are not expected to fair well in this election. Provincially, Brossard-La Prairie falls within what is know as the ADQ belt where they made large gains in the last provincial election and have aligned themselves to the conservatives federally. I expect vote splitting between federalists allowing for another Bloc victory.

http://api.tiles.virtualearth.net/api/GetMap.ashx?ppl=24,,45.4557720376623,-73.466938125469&b=h,mkt.en-ca&z=18&c=45.4514438895081,-73.4945549156304&w=874&h=797

http://api.tiles.virtualearth.net/api/GetMap.ashx?ppl=24,,45.4557720376623,-73.466938125469&b=h,mkt.en-ca&z=18&c=45.4238730252728,-73.4898768909326&w=874&h=797

[Distill3d]

We've voted for Conservatives in the past 2 elections :P


and you're proud of that?

[Distill3d]

some pics of my riding:
(first two photos are from Wikipedia)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Lonsdale_@_13th_North_Vancouver_BC.JPG/800px-Lonsdale_@_13th_North_Vancouver_BC.JPG
this is literally half a block east of my apartment!! we live behind the Shell Gas Station

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/CapilanoRiverRegPark-river.jpg/800px-CapilanoRiverRegPark-river.jpg
capilano river

http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v248/71/31/564900787/n564900787_2922375_2903.jpg
Lynn Canyon (photo credit: Meghan Smith Photography)

http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v234/43/64/679150222/n679150222_2728845_7034.jpg
Lonsdale Quay (photo credit: Me)

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v275/43/64/679150222/n679150222_3373168_4789.jpg
North Vancouver from Vancouver (photo credit: Me)

[harls]

Hull—Aylmer

http://www.elections.ca/pas/hul/images/hull-aylmer.jpg
www.elections.ca

MP: Marcel Proulx. Liberal

Demographics

Population (2006) 110,902
Electors (2006) 84,233
Area (km²) 132
Pop. density (per km²) 840.2
Census divisions Gatineau
Census subdivisions Aylmer, Hull

Hull—Aylmer (formerly known as Hull) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917.

It was created as "Hull" riding in 1914 from parts of Labelle and Wright ridings. It was renamed "Hull—Aylmer" in 1984.

It encompasses the sectors of Hull and Aylmer located in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. The neighbouring ridings are Gatineau, Pontiac, Ottawa West—Nepean, Ottawa Centre, and Ottawa-Vanier.

It is one of the most Liberal ridings in Canada: the Liberal Party has won in every election in this riding since its creation. Even when the province of Quebec was turning its back to them, the Liberals survived in Hull-Aylmer in 1984, 2004 and 2006. In the last election, however, it was the only riding in Canada where four candidates received over 15% of the vote, and the only riding in Quebec outside of the Greater Montreal Area the Liberals managed to win.

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Pics (me)

Hull (now Gatineau Downtown) :

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/151348217_0315378c81_o.jpg

Aylmer:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2668536312_5414c95abf_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2668555822_9dd72a596a_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2668548696_e2f02b55a4_b.jpg

[Acajack]

My riding: Gatineau, Qué.

http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/maps/C24020.pdf

2008 Candidates

NDP: Boivin, Françoise
Green: Inglis, David
Bloc Québécois: Nadeau, Richard (incumbent)
Liberal: Simard, Michel
Conservative: Tassé, Denis

This riding is a bit of an oddity since it is represented by the Bloc Québécois’ Richard Nadeau, despite the fact that you have a clear view of the federal Parliament Buildings in Ottawa from many parts of the riding, and that about 30% of voters are federal public servants. Nadeau is actually a Franco-Ontarian originally from Eastern Ontario who lived in Saskatchewan for many years but moved to Quebec and became a sovereignist because he was p.o’d at the treatment of francophones outside Quebec. His wife, Edith Gendron, is a public servant who was fired by the federal government a few years ago because of her sovereignist leanings, although she won her job back via a labour relations tribunal.

The jury is still out on whether the Bloc’s impressive and surprising 5,000-vote victory in 2006 was just a Gomery-influenced blip in history or if it’s part of a long-term trend. Historically, the riding has pretty much always been Liberal although it was Tory at one point during the Mulroney years.

After her loss to Nadeau in 2006, Liberal (incumbent until her loss) Françoise Boivin expressed interest in running again, but the party brass weren’t too keen on having her back. Guess they thought they could field a star candidate to win the seat back for the Liberals fairly easily. Up until the election call a few weeks ago the rumour was that former Supreme Court judge and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour would run here for the Liberals, but that didn’t pan out. Meantime, Boivin wasn’t waiting around, and actually jumped to the NDP many few months ago. Whether she will unseat Nadeau or not will depend on how strong the Tory and Liberal candidates will show. At the moment, they have both been very slow to get out of the gate, leaving this a two-way race between the NDP’s Boivin and the Bloc’s Nadeau, which probably favours Boivin since if she’s the only credible federalist candidate, all of that vote (predominant in the riding) will go to her. However, if the Tory and Liberal make strong showings, they’ll likely skim off critical federalist votes from Boivin, whereas all of the sovereignists will vote in a bloc (pardon the pun) for Nadeau, who might be able to slip through.

Another hurdle that Boivin will have to overcome is that she no longer has the massive local Liberal machine behind her, and has to count on a miniscule rinky-dink local NDP organization. (Though the national NDP organization is helping her out big time because they think she just might win.)

This riding comprises most of the former city of Gatineau (now merged with four other cities including Hull to form the new Gatineau), and is located east of the central part of the new city, downtown Hull, which is directly across from downtown Ottawa. Gatineau the riding is quite sprawling with wide suburban boulevards and includes both older working-class areas in its southern portion and more upscale, newer upper middle class suburban areas in its northern section.

The population is around 90% francophone, with anglos barely over 5% I’d say. There is a long-established Portuguese-origin community however they have mostly melded with the French-speaking community and generally appear in the francophone figures. In recent years there has been a significant upsurge in the number of immigrants, mostly people from French-speaking Africa, Haiti, Lebanon, Algeria and Morocco, as well as Latin Americans and some Eastern Europeans (former Yugoslavia especially). A significant proportion of the francophone population is made up of people from other regions of Quebec, which may explain why this riding is “winnable” for the Bloc.

Results from 2006:

Richard Nadeau, Bloc Québécois
21093
Françoise Boivin, Liberal
16826
Patrick Robert, Conservative
9014
Anne Lévesque, NDP
5354
Gail Walker, Green
1456

Aerial shot of the western portion of Gatineau riding. I actually live in the area covered by the photo. The tony Ottawa neighbourhood of Rockcliffe Park is in the top left-hand corner across the river. Hull is across the river at the top centre.
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[elsonic]

I live in Laurier—Sainte-Marie, wich includes most of the Plateau, Downtown East End and Centre-Sud.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurier%E2%80%94Sainte-Marie

pop : 100 000

2006 results :
1- Bloc Québécois / Gilles Duceppe / 26,773 / 54.7%
2- New Democrat / François Grégoire / 8,165 / 16.7%
3- Liberal / Soeung Tang / 6,095 / 12.5%
4- Green / Dylan Perceval-Maxwell / 4,064 / 8.35%
5- Conservative / Carlos De Sousa / 3,124 / 6.4%

main strips of the electoral district from Flick :

rue St-Denis
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user Kadj http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadj/with/395368171/

avenue du Mont-Royal
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user François Hogue http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhogue/sets/1272392/with/2743269624/

rue Ste-Catherine Est (le Village)
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user Cedric Sam http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/with/2606301295/

[lubicon]

Where are you guys getting the demographics from?

Statistics Canada has a page for them, I can't remember how to get to them though. They also show federal ridings on the map.

CBC's website also has riding profiles.

[Denscity]

BC SOUTHERN INTERIOR

This riding is geographically huge. It basically goes from nearly Vancouver to nearly Alberta and from the US border to Kelowna in the north roughly 400 km across!
Area: 26,700 sq. kilometers
Population: 95,477
Electors: 73,185
Incumbent: NDP Alex Atamanenko
"Major centres" include Castlegar, Nelson, Trail, and Osoyoos.

[fever]

CBC's website also has riding profiles.

Thanks. Vancouver Centre has 123,701 people (2006 census). Just looking through a few ridings in Vancouver and Calgary, this number isn't really unusual. It's amazing and disappointing that rural votes can be worth so much more...

[MTLskyline]

Saint-Lambert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Lambert_(electoral_district))
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Geography

This riding on Montreal's South Shore is located in the Quebec region of Montérégie. The district includes the city of Saint-Lambert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Lambert,_Quebec), the former Towns of Greenfield Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Park,_Quebec) and LeMoyne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMoyne,_Quebec), and the southern part of the former city of Longueuil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longueuil,_Quebec).

The neighbouring ridings are Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, Brossard—La Prairie, Jeanne-Le Ber, Laurier—Sainte-Marie, and Hochelaga.

Demographics
According to the Canada 2006 Census

Population (2006): 94,541
Electors (2006): 75,114
Area (km²): 27
Pop. density (per km²): 3,501.5
Ethnic groups: 89.4% White, 3.6% Black, 2% Latin American 1.7% Arab, 1.6% Chinese
Languages: 74.1% French, 11.6% English, 13.3% Others, 1% Multiple responses
Median Age: 42.7
Median income: $43,198
Immigrants: 15%

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/fedprofile/RetrieveTable.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Lambert_(electoral_district)

Photos
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Downtown Longueuil by Cataclaw
http://mtlurb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30&page=11

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Downtown Saint-Lambert (by myself)

[DC83]

Hamilton Centre

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2006 Results:

NDP 51.29%
LIB 23.49%
CON 20.29%
GRN 4.23%

2008 Candidates

[i]David Christopherson NDP
Helen Wilson LIB
Leon O’Connor CON
John Livingstone GRN

Some Photos:

downtown
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/HamiltonOntarioSkylineC.JPG/800px-HamiltonOntarioSkylineC.JPG
from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HamiltonOntarioSkylineC.JPG

Gore Park
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by me

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by me

[Rico Rommheim]

My riding is NDP again, its the only one in Quebec. The race was tight but we pulled it off!

Mulcair clinches Outremont for NDP
Candidate wins NDP's only seat, but party builds up popular support in Quebec

By: Corinne Smith, CBC News

The NDP held on to its only seat in Quebec on Tuesday as Thomas Mulcair came out ahead in a tight race in Outremont with his Liberal opponent Sébastien Dhavernas.

Mulcair first won the Montreal Liberal bastion in a 2007 byelection, benefiting in part from the absence of disenchanted Grit voters who stayed home to protest the sponsorship scandal.

But his narrow victory on Tuesday is the NDP's first in a general election in Quebec, and marks a watershed moment for the party, Mulcair said.

"People didn't think we'd be able to pull it off, but we did," he told supporters at a victory party on St. Laurent Blvd.

Popular support for the NDP in Quebec increased by 60 per cent in this campaign, and though it didn't translate into seats, it's a great result and "a beautiful message," Mulcair said. "The NPD has a home in Quebec, because Quebec's values are the NDP's values.

"It's just a start, just watch us go."

Mulcair, who has served as the party's Quebec lieutenant since his byelection win, helped revive leader Jack Layton's hopes for the NDP in the province.

But he was under pressure in this campaign to show he was more than a protest choice for voters.

Took nothing for granted

"We never took anything for granted," Mulcair said. "We knew we worked hard in the last year, but we knew it had been a Liberal riding for the past 137 years."

The riding includes Outremont, an upscale neighbourhood near l'Université de Montréal populated by Francophones, Anglophones, artists and Hasidim.

The riding also covers some parts of the multi-ethnic Côte-des-Neiges and Park Extension districts.

Mulcair was polling more than 10 points ahead of his rival, Liberal candidate and actor Sébastien Dhavernas, by the end of the campaign.

He was frequently parachuted into other promising ridings, including Westmount-Ville-Marie, where former CBC host and NDP candidate Anne Lagacé-Dowson tried unsuccessfully to surpass Liberal star candidate Marc Garneau.

Mulcair also spent considerable time in Gatineau shoring up support for Françoise Boivin, who was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Richard Nadeau.

The 53-year-old said he's humbled to serve again and delighted to be a "voice for peace and sustainable development."

Stephen Harper has a long way to go before he gets Quebec, he added. "The Conservatives have got to understand that it's not enough to start your press conferences in French," he said.

Mulcair is the second NDP MP elected in Quebec, after Phil Edmonston (1990).

[Vaillant]

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

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west of Montréal island
the area grow of 21% in the last 2 years
128 000 population
909 KM square
89 000 electors
78.2% French speaking
21.8% English speaking


won by Bloc Quebecois Meili Faille in 2004
she won in 2006 against Marc Garneau with more than 9000 votes
in 2008 she won against Michael Fortier with more than 11 000 votes

[HomeInMyShoes]

St. John's East
District Number: 10006
Area: 400 square kilometers
Population: 88,002
Number of Electors: 71,643

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All that area consisting of:

(a) the towns of Bauline, Flatrock, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Paradise, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Pouch Cove, Torbay and Wabana;

(b) that part of the Town of Conception Bay South lying northeasterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the southeasterly limit of the Town of Conception Bay South with Conway Brook; thence generally northerly along said brook and Long Pond Harbour to Conception Bay; and

(c) that part of the City of St. John's lying northwesterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the westerly limit of the City of St. John's with Kenmount Road; thence northeasterly and easterly along said road, Freshwater Road and Longs Hill to Gower Street; thence northeasterly along said street to Kings Bridge Road; thence northerly along said road to Rennie's River; thence generally easterly along said river, Quidi Vidi Lake and the channel known locally as Quidi Vidi Gut to Quidi Vidi Harbour. Including Bell Island, Little Bell Island, Kellys Island and all the other islands adjacent to the shoreline of the above described area.

Some Photos Courtesy Me
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Voting Results

NDP Jack Harris 31,369 (74.63%)
LIB Walter Noel 5,273 (12.54%)
CON Craig Westcott 3,872 (9.21%)
GRN Howard Story 586 (1,39%)
PCP Shannon Tobin 584 (1.39%)

[Bedford_DJ]

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Source (http://www.rakeshkhosla.ca/EN/5035/)

Population: 88'000
Voters: 70'000

Christian Heritage Party Trevor Ennis 259 0.6
Conservative Rakesh Khosla 8,730 21.2
NDP-New Democratic Party Tamara Lorincz 12,205 29.6
Green Party Michael Munday 2,921 7.1
Liberal Geoff Regan 17,127 41.5

Includes Hammonds Plains, Bedford, Halifax Mainland, Timberlea and Prospect.

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Credit: Me

[David]

Port Moody - Westwood - Port Coquitlam

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Population: 116,563
Voters: 78,586
Area: 716 km2

The riding is made up of the entire City of Port Coquitlam, the northeast area of Coquitlam, the north area of Port Moody, and all of the Villages of Anmore and Belcarra. The northern portions are pretty much void of settlement since much of it is in Pinecone-Burke Provincial Park (and very mountainous). PoCo is traditionally working class and leans towards NDP provincially, but our 50,000 residents are outnumbered by the ~70,000 living in the Heritage Mountain and Westwood Plateau areas of Port Moody and Coquitlam, which is characterized by newer suburban homes creeping up the mountain. We sort of bridge the gap between the traditonally-NDP "eastern suburbs" and the Conservative Fraser Valley suburbs

The riding has voted for Conservative (formerly Canadian Alliance) MP James Moore since 2000. He was one of the few Conservatives MP to vote in favour of same-sex marriage, after polling his constituents.

Here's a pretty decent overview of the riding from globalairphotos.com 2005
The highway running north of the CPR Yard is the Lougheed Highway, which you can see on the above map as Route "7", for reference
http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/bc/port_coquitlam/2005/pqs2005_076.jpg

[niwell]

Davenport

From cbc.ca:

This riding is on the west side of the old city of Toronto and takes in part of the former city of York. It is bordered by the CN line, Keele Street and Lavender Road in the west, Eglinton Avenue West, Dufferin Street, Rogers Road and Holland Park Avenue in the north and Winona Drive and Ossington Avenue in the east.

The 2006 census shows Davenport with an immigrant population of 53 per cent, one of the highest in the province. Fifty-seven per cent claim languages other than English or French as their mother tongue, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish being the most numerous in this category. Eleven per cent of residents speak neither English nor French.

Construction and manufacturing are two major sources of employment. Retail trade and the service sector are also important.

Average household income is $67,596, one of the lowest in Ontario, and unemployment is 7.3 per cent.

The riding was established in 1933. Redistribution in 1986 and 1996 added territories to the north and east. In the 2004 redistribution, Davenport took in part of Trinity-Spadina and part of York South-Weston.

Population: 104,615 (2006 census; a decrease of 6.3% since 2001)

Photos (by me)

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Western edge of my hood

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Wallace st and Lansdowne ave

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View from rooftop on Ossington. Foreground is Davenport, middle is Trinity-Spadina and background is Toronto Centre.