I’ve updated my election spreadsheet, and will be posting some riding-by-riding analysis over the next while. For now, a list of somewhat interesting numbers from the last campaign:<\/p>\n
1<\/strong>: Ridings the Bloc Quebecois won by more than 3 percentage points, showing how close they came to a complete wipe out.<\/p>\n 2<\/strong>: Ridings won by the Liberals without a Liberal incumbent – Charlottetown (Sean Casey) and Kingston and the Islands (Ted Hsu).<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>: Number of ridings in Alberta where the Liberals finished second, down from 9 in 2008 and 19 in 2006.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>: The number of ridings where the Greens got at least 10% of the vote, down from 41 in 2008.<\/p>\n 10<\/strong>: Number of provinces where Liberal and Green support dropped from 2008. The NDP increased in support everywhere except Newfoundland, with the Conservatives up everywhere except Quebec.<\/p>\n 20<\/strong>: The number of ridings the Liberals won by more than 5 percentage points, down from 63 in 2008.<\/p>\n 28<\/strong>: The number of ridings where turnout was down from 2008, with the largest drops coming in Bourassa, Saint-Leonard-Saint-Michel, and York West.<\/p>\n 33<\/strong>: Number of ridings where the Liberals increased their raw vote total from 2008, with 5000+ vote gains coming in Winnipeg North, Guelph, and Central Nova. Admittedly, increasing Liberal support in Central Nova from 2008 wasn’t too hard.<\/p>\n 45<\/strong>: The number of seats the NDP took from the BQ. They won 17 former Liberal seats, 7 former CPC seats, and Andre Arthur’s.<\/p>\n 74<\/strong>: Number of ridings (out of 75) where the Bloc vote went down. Congrats to rookie MP Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Fortin who increased BQ support by 649 votes in Haute-Gasp\u00e9sie-La Mitis-Matane-Matap\u00e9dia.<\/p>\n 16,283<\/strong>: The most votes received by an independent candidate, by James Ford in Edmonton-Sherwood Park.<\/p>\n 26,097<\/strong>: The vote increase from 2008 for the NDP in Montcalm, their largest gain in the country.<\/p>\n 57,282<\/strong>: The number of votes the Liberals received in Calgary, marking the first time in a long time (and perhaps ever<\/em>) the Liberals got more votes in Calgary than in Edmonton (43,331).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve updated my election spreadsheet, and will be posting some riding-by-riding analysis over the next while. For now, a list of somewhat interesting numbers from the last campaign: 1: Ridings the Bloc Quebecois won by more than 3 percentage points, showing how close they came to a complete wipe out. 2: Ridings won by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}