Federal Election 2011 - A look at the results

[ferroys]

Félicitations, Vid, merveilleux travail. Continuez comme çà. Vous nous faites mieux comprendre la situation. Merci

[P Unit]

Originally Posted by vid

Twitter isn't working for me. But if he really mentioned my maps, that's really cool.

He called them ESSENTIAL (yes, all caps).

[bulliver]

Yes, great work here vid.

Here's that dude's tweet verbatim:

Holy smokes. You want maps of 2011 elxn results? This guy's mappd them every which way. ESSENTIAL> http://bit.ly/jVaz9n

[vid]

All I have to say is,

Automatic recounts are underway in Nipissing—Timiskaming, Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Riviere-du-Loup and Etobicoke Centre and will likely occur in Winnipeg North, so I'll update the maps once those are completed, hopefully soon.

Just noticed how many views this thread has gotten: 11,600. If only my photo tours got this many views.

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one last thing before I go to bed:

6,201 reasons to support electoral reform

(if the image doesn't work, click the link above it.)

And just a reminder that I did indeed call that Conservative victory in Nip-Tem.

[literasyme]

Vid -- these are absolutely fantastic! Thank you for all your work.

The mismatch between population size and physical size of the riding remains a bit of an issue in all conventional maps, though -- I think it's useful to combine those with a more schematic representation such as this one: http://electoralcartogram.ca/

In light of the discussion upthread of what would happen if the NDP and the Liberals merged and how many blue Grits there actually are, I thought people might find my own analysis of how the vote split (and if vote splits mattered all that much, esp. in Ontario) of interest: http://wp.me/p1ylrM-19

[MolsonExport]

These maps are fantastic.

[flar]

Originally Posted by vid

Just noticed how many views this thread has gotten: 11,600. If only my photo tours got this many views.

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That's a huge number of views, there must be other sites linking to this.

Again, very nice work. There are a lot of people with graduate degrees who couldn't put something like this together.

[vid]

Originally Posted by literasyme

The mismatch between population size and physical size of the riding remains a bit of an issue in all conventional maps, though -- I think it's useful to combine those with a more schematic representation such as this one: http://electoralcartogram.ca/

I'm going to try something like this, keeping all ridings the same size. I'll include in the updated maps if I can complete it.


For those of you who support or are interested in electoral reform in Canada, check out orphanedvoter.ca. The blog owner contacted me the other day and I'll be contributing to it in the near future. If anyone else wants to contribute, go to the Blog and send a message through the contact page.



Also, tomorrow is "National Day of Action". Rallies will be held in several cities to spread the word about electoral reform.

All demonstrations to be held at 2pm local time.

Montreal — Berri Sq.
Ottawa — Parliament Hill
Vancouver — Vancouver Art Gallery
Toronto — Queen’s Park
Calgary — Harry Hays Building
Halifax — Province House
Charlottetown — Province House
Kelowna — The Sails, Central Park
Whitehorse — Elijah Smith Building

http://nationaldayofaction.ca/

[bulliver]

WTF? Kelowna and Whitehorse have a rally and Edmonton doesn't? I needed something to do tomorrow afternoon too....perhaps I will be a rally of one.

[mr.John]

I predict about a dozen people will show up in Montreal... ps I'm still smiling remembering the look of that POS Duceppe's face after he and his party got wiped out.."give us our 2 billion dollars" well that lowlife still has his $140,000 federal pension to live off, adios scumbag crawl back into the sewer you came from

[bornagainbiking]

http://www.hilltimes.com/page/view/loans-05-16-2011