Why a Pundits' Guide
There are already many excellent sources of election result data and election coverage on the internet, such as:
- 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- the wonderful historical reference on redistributions maintained by the Library of Parliament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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