As indicated earlier this morning, I've been updating the candidate election finance and expense data for 2004 and 2006. Here is a count of the remaining returns still either missing, not yet reviewed, or possibly Nil returns but I can't tell because there's nothing in them and will have to wait until Elections Canada posts the complete set.

[UPDATE: I've just reviewed and updated the 2006 By-election returns now, and so the counts below have been adjusted accordingly.]

Please note that these updates will affect the accuracy of means, standard deviations and correlations earlier published here. I'll be updating that post soon. Also a reminder that any financial data appearing in italics (for example, the data shown here for Bloc Québécois M.P. Diane Bourgeois in Terrebonne – Blainville, QC) is still in the "as submitted" stage, meaning that the return has not yet been reviewed by Elections Canada (or that I haven't entered the reviewed data yet).

As a helpful bonus, I also finally got around to entering short abbreviations for the political party of all the "other" candidates in the riding profile pages and candidate index pages. Thus, Ron Gray now shows up as a Christian Heritage Party candidate (CHP), Marc-Boris St-Maurice shows up as a Marijuana Party (Marj) candidate, Miguel Figueroa shows up as a Communist Party of Canada candidate (CPC), and so on. (Conservatives are designated here by 'Cons'; not to be confused with the CPC, which after all had the acronym first!)

Don't forget that as a result of legislative changes to the Elections Act, there was a period of time during which some of the smaller parties fell below a specified threshold and were deregistered. You can see that some of their mainstay candidates ran as either "Independent" or "Not Affiliated" candidates during that period.

# of Candidate Returns either Nil, or Not Submitted to, or Not Yet Reviewed by, Elections Canada; by Party and Electoral Event

Party	Party Name	2004 GE	2006 By	2006 GE
Oth	Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada			1
Oth	Canadian Action Party	11		5
Oth	Christian Heritage Party of Canada	7		2
Oth	Communist Party of Canada	1
Oth	Libertarian Party of Canada	1		4
Oth	Marijuana Party	69		18
Oth	Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada	41		59
Oth	Western Block Party			1
Ind	Indep/No Affil	10	1	26
BQ	Bloc Québécois	3		1
Lib	Liberal Party of Canada	21	1	9
NDP	New Democratic Party	29		7
PC	Progressive Canadian Party	1		3
Cons	Conservative Party of Canada	11		39
Grn	Green Party of Canada	48		34

I still have a bit of tidy-up to do on the by-election expenses, and then I'll start in on entering the 2008 Candidate returns ("as submitted").

Labels: 38th (2004) General Election, 39th (2006) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

This is the third part in the series ... Part I is found here and Part II is found here, while the list of Conservative candidates identified as participants in the in-out advertising plan ... which I have also just corrected today ... can be found here. Today's Hill Times has an article listing 11 of the 17 candidates who apparently received a rebate of election expenses prior to the commencement of the Elections Canada review/investigation. The Hill Times reports that all 11 of the elected MPs on the list were in that group, plus 6 other unsuccessful candidates (which it did not name).

[And with this blog-post, I'm going to conclude and set aside the listing of lists relating to election expenditures in the last elections, so I can get back to some more data gathering for the next election and some more analysis and search features for the Guide's users.]

The third main activity claimed to be a common practice of all political parties by Conservative Party's political operations officer Geoff Donald in his October 2007 affadavit, but for which he asserted only the Conservative Party was being criticized, is the claiming of local advertising expenses that were in some way "unidentified". The affadavit lists the names of 45 Liberal, Bloc and NDP candidates whose returns are said to include such expenses, but although exhibits were attached to the affadavit which probably indicated which election those expenses were incurred in, that piece of information was not included in the main affadavit. Thus, I have included the latest general election for each of the candidates below.

Curiously only one of the candidates named in this category has a last name starting with the letter 'N' or higher (you notice these kinds of things working with lists in the context of a database). We can guess that the review of candidate returns was perhaps terminated somewhere in the middle of this work. I haven't run an analysis of candidates by first letter of last name, but believe we're safe in assuming a pretty even distribution there.

List of 45 Liberal, NDP and BQ candidates named by the Conservatives as having unidentified local advertising expenses

(courtesy Stephen Taylor of the Blogging Tories, at stephentaylor.ca)

Riding		Elec: Candidate	Contest
QC	Gatineau	2006 GE: LEVESQUE, Anne (F)	BQ-Lib
QC	Trois-Rivières	2004 GE: GUINDON, Jean-Éric (M)	BQ-Lib
QC	Manicouagan	2006 GE: DUCASSE, Pierre (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Hull – Aylmer	2006 GE: LALIBERTÉ, Pierre (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Lachine	2006 GE: DESLAURIERS, Peter (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Saint-Laurent – Cartierville	2006 GE: DION, Stéphane (M)	Lib-BQ
NS	Sydney – Victoria	2006 GE: EDWARDS, John Hugh (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	Beaches – East York	2006 GE: CHURLEY, Marilyn (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Hamilton Mountain	2004 GE: CHARLTON, Chris (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Kenora	2004 GE: BARCLAY, Susan (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Nickel Belt	2006 GE: GRAVELLE, Claude (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	Sudbury	2006 GE: MARLEAU, Diane (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Trinity – Spadina	2004 GE: CHOW, Olivia (F)	Lib-NDP
NL	Humber – St. Barbe – Baie Verte	2006 GE: BYRNE, Gerry (M)	Lib-Cons
PE	Egmont	2006 GE: MCGUIRE, Joe (M)	Lib-Cons
PE	Malpeque	2006 GE: EASTER, Wayne (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Beauséjour	2006 GE: LEBLANC, Dominic (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Moncton – Riverview – Dieppe	2006 GE: MURPHY, Brian (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Ajax – Pickering	2006 GE: HOLLAND, Mark (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Huron – Bruce	2006 GE: ROBERTSON, Grant (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Kenora	2006 GE: BARCLAY, Susan (F)	Lib-Cons
ON	Parry Sound – Muskoka	2004 GE: MITCHELL, Andy (M)	Lib-Cons
SK	Desnethé – Missinippi – Churchill River	2006 GE: JACKSON, Anita (F)	Lib-Cons
SK	Wascana	2006 GE: GOODALE, Ralph (M)	Lib-Cons
AB	Edmonton Centre	2004 GE: MCMASTER, Meghan (F)	Lib-Cons
NS	Halifax	2006 GE: MACKINNON, Martin (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Hamilton Centre	2006 GE: CHRISTOPHERSON, David (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Hamilton East – Stoney Creek	2006 GE: MARSTON, Wayne (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Hamilton Mountain	2006 GE: CHARLTON, Chris (F)	NDP-Lib
ON	Toronto – Danforth	2006 GE: LAYTON, Jack (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Trinity – Spadina	2006 GE: CHOW, Olivia (F)	NDP-Lib
BC	Burnaby – New Westminster	2006 GE: JULIAN, Peter (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	British Columbia Southern Interior	2006 GE: ATAMANENKO, Alex T. (M)	NDP-Lib
QC	Louis-Hébert	2006 GE: BLANCHETTE, Denis (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Pontiac	2006 GE: BRAULT, Céline (F)	Cons-BQ
NL	St. John's East	2006 GE: ANTLE, Paul (M)	Cons-Lib
ON	Nepean – Carleton	2006 GE: GAFFNEY, Michael (M)	Cons-Lib
ON	Parry Sound – Muskoka	2006 GE: MITCHELL, Andy (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton East	2006 GE: CHAPMAN, Arlene (F)	Cons-Lib
BC	Delta – Richmond East	2004 GE: LEONHARDT, Shelley (F)	Cons-Lib
BC	Kamloops – Thompson – Cariboo	2004 GE: CARROLL, Brian (M)	Cons-Lib
SK	Regina – Lumsden – Lake Centre	2006 GE: ANDERSON, Gary (M)	Cons-NDP
SK	Regina – Qu'Appelle	2006 GE: HERLE, Allyce (F)	Cons-NDP
BC	Kootenay – Columbia	2006 GE: BURWELL, Jhim (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Prince George – Peace River	2006 GE: BAUDER, Nathan (M)	Cons-NDP

Labels: 38th (2004) General Election, 39th (2006) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

Here is the list associated with the second activity described by Geoff Donald in his affadavit (see my earlier blog post here).

List of 28 Liberal, NDP and BQ candidates named by the Conservatives as participating in reciprocal transfers of funds between central and candidate campaigns

(courtesy Stephen Taylor of the Blogging Tories, at stephentaylor.ca)

Riding		Elec: Candidate	Contest
NB	Madawaska – Restigouche	2006 GE: MARTIN, Rodolphe (M)	Lib-Cons
PE	Malpeque	2006 GE: EASTER, Wayne (M)	Lib-Cons
NS	Sackville – Eastern Shore	2006 GE: STOFFER, Peter (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	British Columbia Southern Interior	2006 GE: ATAMANENKO, Alex T. (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	Vancouver East	2006 GE: DAVIES, Libby (F)	NDP-Lib
BC	Vancouver Island North	2006 GE: BELL, Catherine J. (F)	NDP-Cons
BC	Fleetwood – Port Kells	2006 GE: BELL, Barry (M)	Cons-Lib
QC	Mégantic – L'Érable	2006 GE: CORRIVEAU, Yvan (M)	Cons-BQ
BC	Pitt Meadows – Maple Ridge – Mission	2006 GE: BOCKING, Mike (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Saanich – Gulf Islands	2006 GE: BURGIS, Jennifer (F)	Cons-NDP
NL	Random – Burin – St. George's	2004 GE: MCGRATH, Des (M)	Lib-NDP
NS	Dartmouth – Cole Harbour	2004 GE: MACALPINE-GILLIS, Susan (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Hamilton Mountain	2004 GE: PHINNEY, Beth (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Barrie	2004 GE: CARROLL, Aileen (F)	Lib-Cons
ON	Don Valley West	2004 GE: GODFREY, John (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Glengarry – Prescott – Russell	2004 GE: CAUVIER, Martin (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Oak Ridges – Markham	2004 GE: TEMELKOVSKI, Lui (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Ottawa South	2004 GE: MAZIGH, Monia (F)	Lib-Cons
ON	Ottawa West – Nepean	2004 GE: CATTERALL, Marlene (F)	Lib-Cons
QC	Honoré-Mercier	2004 GE: RODRIGUEZ, Pablo (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Lachine	2004 GE: JENNINGS, Marlene (F)	Lib-BQ
QC	Pontiac	2004 GE: LEDUC, L. Hubert (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Saint-Laurent – Cartierville	2004 GE: DION, Stéphane (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Québec	2004 GE: GAGNON, Christiane (F)	BQ-Lib
ON	Hamilton Centre	2004 GE: CHRISTOPHERSON, David (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Windsor – Tecumseh	2004 GE: LIMOGES, Rick (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Simcoe – Grey	2004 GE: BONWICK, Paul (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary West	2004 GE: PATTERSON, Tim (M)	Cons-Lib

Labels: 38th (2004) General Election, 39th (2006) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

From Stephen Taylor's blog, the "Donald Affadavit" is an affadavit sworn by Conservative political operations officer Geoff Donald in October 2007, as part of the civil proceedings between the Conservative Party and Elections Canada.

In it, Mr. Donald detailed cases he believed would illustrate that there are three different aspects of activities, claimed to be common practices of all political parties, but for which Elections Canada is targetting only the Conservative Party. The three activities are: (i) grouped ad buys with "national" content, arranged by national campaign staff, (ii) reciprocal transfers of funds between the central and local campaigns or electoral district associations (EDAs), and (iii) unidentified advertising and publicity line items in candidate election expense returns. The cases spanned both the 2004 and 2006 General Elections.

There are a lot of names and ridings in that affadavit, which are proving time-consuming to document here in one sitting. Thus, first I offer the "Ad Buys". Tomorrow, I'll round things out with the "Transfers" and "Unidentified advertising".

As with the Conservative list of yesterday, clicking on the riding name will take you to the riding profile page (financial metrics pane) for that riding.

List of 59 Liberal and NDP candidates named by the Conservatives as participating in group advertising purchases containing possible national content

(courtesy Stephen Taylor of the Blogging Tories, at stephentaylor.ca)

Riding		Elec: Candidate	Contest
NB	Beauséjour	2006 GE: LEBLANC, Dominic (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Fredericton	2006 GE: SCOTT, Andy (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Madawaska – Restigouche	2006 GE: D'AMOURS, Jean-Claude (J.C.) (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Miramichi	2006 GE: HUBBARD, Charles Isaac (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Moncton – Riverview – Dieppe	2006 GE: MURPHY, Brian (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Saint John	2006 GE: ZED, Paul (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Fundy Royal	2006 GE: HUNTER, Eldon (M)	Cons-Lib
NB	New Brunswick Southwest	2006 GE: SMITH, Stanley John (M)	Cons-Lib
NB	Tobique – Mactaquac	2006 GE: SAVOY, Andy (M)	Cons-Lib
NB	Acadie – Bathurst	2006 GE: MERSEREAU, Marcelle (F)	NDP-Lib
ON	Trinity – Spadina	2006 GE: CHOW, Olivia (F)	NDP-Lib
BC	Burnaby – Douglas	2006 GE: SIKSAY, Bill (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	Burnaby – New Westminster	2006 GE: JULIAN, Peter (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	British Columbia Southern Interior	2006 GE: ATAMANENKO, Alex T. (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	Vancouver East	2006 GE: DAVIES, Libby (F)	NDP-Lib
BC	Victoria	2006 GE: SAVOIE, Denise (F)	NDP-Lib
BC	Nanaimo – Cowichan	2006 GE: CROWDER, Jean A. (F)	NDP-Cons
BC	New Westminster – Coquitlam	2006 GE: BLACK, Dawn (F)	NDP-Cons
BC	Vancouver Island North	2006 GE: BELL, Catherine J. (F)	NDP-Cons
SK	Blackstrap	2006 GE: KOSSICK, Don (M)	Cons-NDP
SK	Palliser	2006 GE: DUSEL, Jo-Anne (F)	Cons-NDP
SK	Regina – Lumsden – Lake Centre	2006 GE: KOVATCH, Maurice (Moe) (M)	Cons-NDP
SK	Regina – Qu'Appelle	2006 GE: NYSTROM, Lorne Edmund (M)	Cons-NDP
SK	Saskatoon – Humboldt	2006 GE: MASON, Andrew (M)	Cons-NDP
SK	Saskatoon – Rosetown – Biggar	2006 GE: WIEBE, Nettie (F)	Cons-NDP
BC	Nanaimo – Alberni	2006 GE: UPPAL, Manjeet (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Saanich – Gulf Islands	2006 GE: BURGIS, Jennifer (F)	Cons-NDP
SK	Saskatoon – Wanuskewin	2006 GE: MADDIN, Jim (M)	Cons-Lib
BC	Vancouver Centre	2006 GE: ROBINSON, Svend J. (M)	Lib-NDP
BC	Vancouver Kingsway	2006 GE: WADDELL, Ian (M)	Lib-NDP
SK	Wascana	2006 GE: YUM, Helen (F)	Lib-Cons
AB	Calgary East	2004 GE: MAXIM, James (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary Centre-North	2004 GE: MCCLUSKY, Cathy (F)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary Northeast	2004 GE: MUTI, Dale (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary – Nose Hill	2004 GE: HANEY, Ted (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary Centre	2004 GE: TURNBULL, Julia (F)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary Southeast	2004 GE: TANNER, Jim (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary Southwest	2004 GE: ROBERTS, Avalon (F)	Cons-Lib
AB	Calgary West	2004 GE: THOMPSON, Justin (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Crowfoot	2004 GE: CAMPBELL, Adam (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Fort McMurray – Athabasca	2004 GE: FAULKNER, Doug (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton – Mill Woods – Beaumont	2004 GE: KILGOUR, David (M)	Lib-Cons
AB	Edmonton Centre	2004 GE: MCLELLAN, Anne (F)	Lib-Cons
AB	Edmonton East	2004 GE: BETHEL, John (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton – Leduc	2004 GE: KING, Bruce (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton – St. Albert	2004 GE: SAEED, Moe (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton – Sherwood Park	2004 GE: TOWNS, Maureen (F)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton – Spruce Grove	2004 GE: MATHER, Neil (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton – Strathcona	2004 GE: CARLSON, Debby (F)	Cons-Lib
AB	Lethbridge	2004 GE: NICOL, Ken (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Macleod	2004 GE: SHADE, Chris (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Medicine Hat	2004 GE: COCKS, Bill (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Peace River	2004 GE: CARLSTROM, Lyle (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Red Deer	2004 GE: KURATA, Luke (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Vegreville – Wainwright	2004 GE: STEWART, Duff (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Westlock – St. Paul	2004 GE: DION, Joe (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Wetaskiwin	2004 GE: BONNETT, Rick (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Wild Rose	2004 GE: STEWART, Judy (F)	Cons-Lib
AB	Yellowhead	2004 GE: CROSSLEY, Peter (M)	Cons-Lib

Labels: 38th (2004) General Election, 39th (2006) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

Campaign finance and spending data have now been added to all the 2003 Representation Order riding profile pages, for the 2004 General Election.

As before, if a candidate's return has not yet been reviewed by Elections Canada, his or her data "as submitted" is shown in italics. I've run a quick crosstab to see which party's returns are most affected by this backlog, and the answer is ... mainly the smaller parties. Here are the counts of not yet reviewed + not apparently submitted for the various electoral events entered into the Pundits' Guide so far:

# of Candidate Returns Not Submitted to, or Not Yet Reviewed by, Elections Canada, by Party and Electoral Event

Party	Party Name	2004 GE	2006 By	2006 GE
Oth	Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada			1
Oth	Canadian Action Party	17	2	9
Oth	Christian Heritage Party of Canada	8		5
Oth	Communist Party of Canada	5
Oth	Libertarian Party of Canada	1		5
Oth	Marijuana Party	69		18
Oth	Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada	44		62
Oth	Western Block Party			1
Ind	Independent	12	1	27
Ind	No Affiliation	4		1
BQ	Bloc Québécois	5		3
Lib	Liberal Party of Canada	36	2	65
NDP	New Democratic Party	51	2	38
PC	Progressive Canadian Party	1		6
Cons	Conservative Party of Canada	23	1	92
Grn	Green Party of Canada	105	1	73

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Unrelated update: According to this news release from Elections Canada late last week, and if I have my math right, Thursday February 7 is the first day on which the Prime Minister can call a by-election for the riding of Westmount – Ville-Marie. Again, if I didn't mess up the counting, Monday February 11 is the last day on which he could call it for March 17, 2008 to coincide with the other 4 by-elections.

Labels: 38th (2004) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance, Westmount-Ville Marie