Links
Regional Riding Maps from Elections Canada – I don't know why they do this, but the Elections Canada website does not honour its dotNET application URLs the *first* time you request them. What this means more practically is that the first time you click on one of these map links, it won't work. So hit the back button and try again. Then it will. Why oh why do they do this?
[If you don't want clickable maps, just a selection of PDFs and JPEGs, you can visit the Elections Canada Map Corner.]
- NL: Newfoundland & Labrador
- PE: Prince Edward Island
- NS: Nova Scotia
- NB: New Brunswick
- QC: Québec
- ON: Ontario
- MB: Manitoba
- SK: Saskatchewan
- AB: Alberta
- BC: British Columbia
- NU: Nunavut
- NT: Northwest Territories – Western Arctic
- YT: Yukon Territory
Elections Canada & Other Parliamentary and Government Datasources
- Elections Canada Voter Information Service
- Elections Canada Election Results
- Elections Canada Party Election Returns
- Elections Canada Other Campaign Finance Reports
- Elections Canada Nomination Contests
- Federal Electoral Legislation
- The Parliament of Canada's ParlINFO site
- Current Party Standings in the House of Commons
- Elections Canada's List of Vacant Seats
- List of M.P.s who Crossed the Floor or Changed Party Affiliation from ParlINFO site
- Elections Glossary of the federal Translation Bureau at Public Words & Government Services Canada
Mapping Resources
- Federal Electoral District boundaries ("shapefiles") at GeoGratis.ca
- Natural Resources Canada's "Atlas of Canada" Maps of the 2000, 2004 and 2006 Election Results
- Natural Resources Canada's "Atlas of Canada" Map Archives of Election Maps, 1968 – 2001
Online community resources
- ElectionAlmanac.com (formerly NoDice.ca)
- Democratic Space
- Election Prediction Project
- Latest Wikipedia entry
- Polling Report.ca
- Paulitics Blog: Poll Index
- Canada and Québec prediction site ThreeHundredEight.com
- Canadian Election Watch seat projection
- Riding by Riding seat projections
- UBC's Voter Migration Matrix Election Forecaster
- Hill & Knowlton's Federal Election Predictor (now firewalled)
- Paulitics 2009 Canadian federal election projection model
- HowdTheyVote.ca
- OpenParliament.ca
- PoliTwitter.ca
- TweetCommons.com
- Democracy Watch (DWatch.com), and especially its Government Links page
- Democracy Law Blog (DemocracyLawBlog.ca)
- Canadian-Politics.com
- Mondo Politico
- QuébecPolitique.com
- Trendlines.ca Politics page
- Vote4Me.ca
- Multicultural Vote
- Intraspec.ca 2008 Election page
Scholarly studies and compendia
- Canadian Election Study (CES)
- CES Data Archive at Queen's University CORA site
- Canadian Opinion Data Archive (CORA)
- Maple Leaf Web and its 2006 Election Site
- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 by the Library of Parliament
- Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion (LISPOP)
- Simon Fraser University Political Science Professor Andrew Heard's Elections Site
- UBC Election Stock Market
- Université de Laval's Poltext – archival storage of party platforms and other original documents
- Adam Carr's Psephos site for Canada ("psephology" is the study of elections)
- ACE Project: Electoral Knowledge Project's Canada page
- Trinity College Dublin Political Science Professor Michael Gallagher's Electoral Systems website
- Canadian Political Science Association
Media compendia
- CBC Canada Votes 2008
- CBC Canada Votes 2006
- CBC Canada Votes 2004
- Radio-Canada Élections fédérales 2008
- Radio-Canada Élections fédérales 2006
- CTV 2008 Election Special
- CTV 2006 Election Special
- Canadian Press (CP) 2008 Election Results
- Canadian Press (CP) 2006 Election Results
- Globe & Mail Federal Election 2008
- Globe & Mail Decision 2006
- Globe & Mail Decision 2004
- Globe & Mail Election 2000 Special
- Canwest Global's Decision Canada 2008
- Canwest Global's Decision Canada 2006
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