• NoDice.ca
• Democratic Space
• the Election Prediction Project
• the Canadian Election Study
• the latest Wikipedia entry, and
• the wonderful historical reference on redistributions maintained by the Library of Parliament

But they were all missing the kind of information I wanted to see:

• the cross-referenced history of each candidate, party and election, as well as each riding
• the linking of ridings related by redistribution
• meaningful regional breakdowns that group ridings by voting patterns and media market
• other riding groupings (francophone, northern, core urban, significant aboriginal or multicultural populations, floor-crossers, party leaders, ridings with no incumbents running, close three-way races, four-way races, the seats in which a party placed 2nd, you name it)
• a comparison of a party's percent of the seats vs. its percent of the vote
• a cross-reference to campaign spending and fund-raising (coming soon)
• and most importantly, the kind of metrics that campaign organizers use to assess the ground game

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