Pundits' Guide

Seats with First-Time Incumbents
	YT	NT	NU	BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	NL	Tot	Pct	Wom	Pct

Seats	1	1	1	36	28	14	14	106	75	10	11	4	7	308
Lib	1	1		15	8	4	7	90	46	8	10	3	6	199	65%	65	32.7%
NDP		1		19	10	8	6	71	10	2	6		2	135	44%	47	34.8%
Grn	1		1	16	18	7	12	79	50	2	7	3		196	64%	58	29.6%
BQ									40					40	13%	10	25.0%
Cons			1	30	28	13	12	77	21	5	4	3		194	63%	37	19.1%
Ind						1		1	1					3	1%	1	33.3%
Oth					1			1						2	1%	1	50.0%

In-and-Out Hearings: Send Pain Meds Urgently

If you haven't been doing so already, I'm recommending that readers who are or have been active participants in the electoral process check out the detailed coverage the Ottawa Citizen's Glen McGregor has been giving, on Twitter, of the Federal Court hearings into the so-called "in-and-out" accounting for advertising issue.

Poor Glen; he doesn't spend his days and nights pouring over minutiae in the Elections Act and the changing versions of the Candidate Manual the way many of us do. There's not exactly a mass audience for that kind of detailed coverage; but I'm guessing that if there's a niche audience, it probably overlaps with the readership of this blog quite a bit.

And for someone not steeped in all the background the way a practitioner might be, he's doing yeoman service covering the arguments being presented by each of the lawyers, the questioning by Judge Martineau, and filling in some of the background as required (although he's finding some of it a bit arcane, and jokes that he's willing to entertain sponsorships from suppliers of pain medication).

If you haven't explored Twitter before, just click on this link: http://twitter.com/CPCvsElxCan, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on the "More" button. Keep repeating until you get to his first post (or "tweet" as they're called), and then read upwards to get the detail in chronological order. The hearings have been on for two days already, and continue tomorrow morning. To follow them live, visit the same page, and reload it periodically.

This is the future of journalism, and if you've ever found yourself complaining about the lack of detail or substance in mainstream media coverage of a story you care about, then you'll be pleasantly surprised. Glen does a lot within the 140-character limit each "tweet" is confined to.

For some documentary background on the so-called "In-out-Out" accounting for advertising dispute between Elections Canada on the one hand, and the Conservative Party and official agents for 67 of its candidates in the 2006 general election on the other, please see my blogposts from the spring of 2008 where:

I transcribed the list of affected Conservative candidates, along with links to the financial metrics page for each of their ridings (which then contains direct links to their financial returns at Elections Canada), followed by
a listing of the candidates named in the affadavit of the organization director of the Conservative Party, as having met one of three criteria the CPC has argued were in wide use by other parties at the time (part I, part II, and part III of the so-called "Donald affadavit")

Thanks to Glen for providing this very interesting live and detailed coverage. I'm willing to chip in for his pain meds in return ... who else is in?

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

2006 Candidate Rebates Finally Posted at Elections Canada

It appears that Elections Canada has finally finished reviewing the candidate spending reports from the 2006 election, and has now posted the list of candidate 2006 rebates in the Election Finance section of its website.

Regular readers of the Pundits' Guide will recall that four candidates overspent the limit in 2006 (2 Liberals and 2 Conservatives), but all 4 of them have been issued rebates according to this list. Only one so far has signed a Gazette'd compliance agreement with the Commissioner of Canada Elections (who is responsible for enforcing those provisions of the Elections Act).

Meanwhile, it also looks like the list of 2004 rebates is posted there now too, along with the list from the 2005 by-elections (see first drop-down): which means another data entry project for yours truly in her spare time. You'll know when I'm done because the totals will appear under the column "Cand $ Rebate" in the summary table at the top of a party's profile on the "Browse Parties" page, such as this one for the Liberals, this one for the Conservatives, or this one for the NDP. By the way, anything that appears there now for 2008 is a typo, and I'll be fixing that right away (probably a candidate's personal expense that got pasted into the wrong field by me).

Labels: Election Expenses, Election Finance

Shout-out to some interesting number-crunching

Last month I ran some statistics examining the relationship between riding-level election spending and the associated share of the vote obtained, for the 1997-2006 general elections.

Now the bluegreenblogger has in added a few more variables and run some correlations on the dataset of Green Party federal candidates in Ontario from 2008 (reviewed here by NDP blogger the Jurist at Accidental Deliberations). Bluegreenblogger examined both vote percent and raw vote as dependent variables, and tested election spending vs. riding association (aka EDA or "electoral district association") assets at the end of the previous calendar year vs. campaign contributions vs. transfers into the riding as independent variables. I've summarized the results below:

Correlations between election finance and riding association development, Green Party federal candidates, Ontario only, 2008 election

Correlation (r)	Raw Vote	Vote Pct
EDA assets as at end of 2007	0.575	0.534
Candidate/EDA election spending	0.751	0.766
Transfers to Candidate/EDA campaign	0.698	0.727
Campaign contributions	0.329	0.277

Source: bluegreenblogger, at "Not An Official Green Party Canada Site"

I always like to report on other efforts to quantify election data, so thanks BGB for this contribution.

Labels: Data Analysis, Election Expenses, Election Finance

First 2008 Candidate Financial Returns Now Entered

As previously reported here, candidates in the 2008 General had to submit their election campaign returns by midnight on Friday, February 13. It's taken me about a month to get around to getting that data into the Pundits' Guide database, and during that time Elections Canada has entered nearly 1,200 candidate returns ("as submitted") into their database.

Still outstanding are 440 / 1601 candidate returns, as described in the table below.

Some interesting trivia (although, remember, this is based only on preliminary data and is subject to change after the Elections Canada review):

Of the top 30 "big spenders" (measured by who spent the greatest percent of the candidate spending limit in their riding), 25 were Conservatives, 2 were Liberals, 2 were Bloquistes, and 1 was NDP. Fewer than half of the big-spenders (14/30) were elected.
Based on their returns entered so far, it appears that on average the Green Party's candidates more than doubled their riding spending from 2006 (7.0% vs. 2.6% of the spending limit, on average), while the Liberal Party's candidates spent on average a bit less (55.3% vs. 61% in 2006, down from 73% in 2004) as did Bloc candidates. Average spending by Conservative candidates was also up a bit (from 69.7% to 74.6%), while the average riding spending of New Democrat candidates stayed almost exactly the same (26.8% vs. 26.0%).
If a candidate was duly nominated with Elections Canada, but then withdrew before the deadline and in sufficient time for another candidate from the same party to be nominated, it turns out that they BOTH have to file candidate campaign returns. For example in Toronto Centre, ON, former Conservative candidate Chris Reid and eventual Conservative candidate David Peter Gentili have BOTH filed candidate returns showing election expenses and transfers from party headquarters. Weird, huh!

Now, neither one spent the limit, and indeed their expenditures totalled together do not exceed the limit either. But what if they did? I don't know the answer to that question, but I'm guessing that since the limit applies to a candidate and not to a party's campaign in a certain riding, so long as both remained under the limit no provision of the Elections Act would be violated. Anyways I have a question in to Elections Canada on that one, and will report back on their response.

For a refresher on how to find that candidate financial data in the Pundits' Guide, see here.

I'll be writing and programming about financial data a bit more in coming weeks, so stay tuned.

# of Candidate Returns either Nil, or Not Submitted to, or Not Yet Reviewed by, Elections Canada; by Party, 2008 General Election

Party	Party Name	2008 GE
Oth	Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party	0 / 4
Oth	Canadian Action Party	9 / 20
Oth	Christian Heritage Party	8 / 59
Oth	Communist Party of Canada	0 / 24
Oth	First Peoples National Party	5 / 6
Oth	Libertarian Party of Canada	4 / 26
Oth	Marijuana Party	2 / 8
Oth	Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada	5 / 59
Oth	neorhino.ca	3 / 7
Oth	Newfoundland and Labrador First Party	2 / 3
Oth	People's Political Power Party	0 / 2
Oth	Progressive Canadian Party	1 / 10
Oth	Western Block Party	1 / 1
Oth	Work Less Party	0 / 1
Ind	Indep/No Affil	23 / 71
BQ	Bloc Québécois	13 / 75
Lib	Liberal Party of Canada	104 / 307
NDP	New Democratic Party	120 / 308
Cons	Conservative Party of Canada	70 / 307
Grn	Green Party of Canada	70 / 303

Labels: 40th General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

By-election Candidate Spending Updated

Candidate election campaign return data has now been entered and/or updated for the 2006 By-elections, the 2007 By-elections, and the 2008 By-elections.

Moreover I also found the time to add in the information required to link to every candidate's original return details at the Elections Canada website (except for 1997 General Election candidates, since that election's data is nearly impossible to link to directly; sorry).

If you're new to the Pundits' Guide, here's how to find candidate financial data:

Find your riding of interest, either by

drilling down through the "Browse Regions" page, or
doing a Quick Search from the left-hand column on any part of the riding name, or by
doing a Quick Search for a candidate of interest on any part of the candidate's name, and then clicking on the relevant riding from the candidate index page.

From the riding profile page (e.g., let's look at Vancouver Quadra, BC), click on the "Financial Metrics" tab

If you want to bookmark the page with that tab's data showing, click on the link called "Permalink" at the top-right hand corner of the page (in our example, you'd wind up here)
Don't forget that candidate financial data displayed in italics at the Pundits' Guide is still in the "as submitted" stage (in our example below, Green Party candidate Dan Grice's return still has not been reviewed by Elections Canada, and so appears in italics)
Now, notice the small Elections Canada icon next to each candidate's name. If you hover your mouse pointer over the icon, it says "Link to Candidate Financial Return at Elections Canada"

If you click on that icon, it opens the candidate's return details from the Elections Canada website in a new window.
Unfortunately Elections Canada does not label that page with the candidate's name, but TRUST ME. Select a part of the return you're interested in (e.g., "Part 2a - Statement of Contributions Received"), and click on it. Now, you're away to the races. You can even select a different part of the return from the drop-down list they provide.

Nearly all of the by-election returns are in "as reviewed" state for the 2006 and 2007 by-elections, but there are quite a few still in the "as submitted" stage for the 2008 by-elections candidates, as you can see from the table below.

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

Party	Party Name	2006 By	2007 By	2008 By
Oth	Canadian Action Party			1
Oth	neorhino.ca			1
Ind	Indep/No Affil	1
Lib	Liberal Party of Canada	1		2
NDP	New Democratic Party		1	2
Cons	Conservative Party of Canada			1
Grn	Green Party of Canada		1	3

Labels: 2_How to Search the Database, Election Expenses, Election Finance, March 17 2008 By-elections, Nov 27 2006 By-elections, Sept 17 2007 By-elections

2004 and 2006 Candidate Spending Updated

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

Party Leaders' Returns Now (All) Available

A few weeks ago, I posted some details of the candidate returns of the major party leaders ... well all except Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, whose return had not yet been posted by Elections Canada.

Well, Harper's return is available now, and so here is the full table for comparison (or to view the original returns yourself, click here):

Selected Details from the 2008 General Election Candidate Financial Returns from the 5 Major Party Leaders

Party	Lib	NDP	Grn	BQ	Cons
	Stéphane DION	Jack LAYTON	Elizabeth MAY	Gilles DUCEPPE	Stephen HARPER
Riding	St-Laurent – Cartierville, QC	Toronto – Danforth, ON	Central Nova, NS	Laurier – Ste-Marie, QC	Calgary SW, AB
$ Limit	$ 83858	$ 82497	$ 80462	$ 84641	$ 92156
$ Spent (% Spent)	$ 46549 (55.5%)	$ 79281 (96.1%)	$ 55482 (69.0%)	$ 71127 (84.0%)	$ 61102 (66.3%)
Electors $ Spent / Voter	76777 $0.60	74826 $1.06	58863 $0.94	79182 $0.90	90756 $0.67
Num Votes (Pct Vote) $ Spent / Vote	25095 (61.7%) $1.85	20323 (44.8%) $3.90	12620 (32.2%) $4.40	24103 (50.2%) $2.95	38548 (73.0%) $1.59

$ Riding 2007 Net Assets	$ 63271	$ 45173	$ 16734	$ 54705	$ 249070
$ Contribs (A) Num Contribs	$ 6125 24	$ 14656 89	$ 25411 84	$ 11500 51	$ 20840 62
$ From Riding (B)	$ 44000	$ 42164	$ 5348	$ 30000	$ 45000
$ Raised Locally (A + B)	$ 50125	$ 56820	$ 30759	$ 41500	$ 65840
$ From Party	$ 0	$ 21506	$ 80000	$ 41260	$ 0

$ Surplus	$ 7493	$ 0	$ 56540	$ 0	$ 14702

As expected (see my analysis in the earlier blogpost), Harper's campaign return was not significantly different from Dion's, since both hold very safe seats: their riding associations were able to raise most of the money ahead of time, they spent a smaller percent of limit than Layton and Duceppe (Harper spent 66.3% vs. Dion's 55.5%), and neither one received a transfer of funds from the national party. Harper's local campaign raised about three times as much as Dion's during the election, however ($20,840 vs. $6125). Only Elizabeth May's local campaign raised more, in fact.

Labels: 40th General Election, Bloc Québécois, Conservatives, Election Expenses, Election Finance, Greens, Liberals, NDP

Party Leaders' Returns Now (Mostly) Available

As of midnight last Friday February 13, the campaign finance returns of candidates running in the 2008 General Election were due, and they're now starting to be entered into the Elections Canada database for those interested in checking.

Although it will take me some time to get all this data into the Pundits' Guide database, here are some details from the ("as submitted") campaign returns of the Party Leaders whose returns have thus far been entered into the Elections Canada database. Data "as reviewed by Election Canada" will not be available for sometime. To view these 4 candidate return details yourself, click here. I've also added in their riding association's reported asset balances from the end of 2007 (from another Elections Canada database) to help read the returns in context.

Please note that although Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper's return is not yet available on the Elections Canada website, that does not mean his campaign did not meet the filing deadline. I will check back from time to time and update this post once that return becomes available online. [UPDATE: Mr. Harper's return is now posted. I've added the details here, but you can also see my latest blogpost for their analysis.]

Selected Details from the 2008 General Election Candidate Financial Returns from the 5 Major Party Leaders

Party	Lib	NDP	Grn	BQ	Cons
	Stéphane DION	Jack LAYTON	Elizabeth MAY	Gilles DUCEPPE	Stephen HARPER
Riding	St-Laurent – Cartierville, QC	Toronto – Danforth, ON	Central Nova, NS	Laurier – Ste-Marie, QC	Calgary SW, AB
$ Limit	$ 83858	$ 82497	$ 80462	$ 84641	$ 92156
$ Spent (% Spent)	$ 46549 (55.5%)	$ 79281 (96.1%)	$ 55482 (69.0%)	$ 71127 (84.0%)	$ 61102 (66.3%)
Electors $ Spent / Voter	76777 $0.60	74826 $1.06	58863 $0.94	79182 $0.90	90756 $0.67
Num Votes (Pct Vote) $ Spent / Vote	25095 (61.7%) $1.85	20323 (44.8%) $3.90	12620 (32.2%) $4.40	24103 (50.2%) $2.95	38548 (73.0%) $1.59

$ Riding 2007 Net Assets	$ 63271	$ 45173	$ 16734	$ 54705	$ 249070
$ Contribs (A) Num Contribs	$ 6125 24	$ 14656 89	$ 25411 84	$ 11500 51	$ 20840 62
$ From Riding (B)	$ 44000	$ 42164	$ 5348	$ 30000	$ 45000
$ Raised Locally (A + B)	$ 50125	$ 56820	$ 30759	$ 41500	$ 65840
$ From Party	$ 0	$ 21506	$ 80000	$ 41260	$ 0

$ Surplus	$ 7493	$ 0	$ 56540	$ 0	$ 14702

Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's return looks like the typical return of an incumbent candidate in a very safe seat: the riding association raised most of the funds ahead of time, the campaign spent just 55% of the spending limit, and no funds were transferred to the campaign by the central party office. I would expect Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's return to look similar, given that he received 73% of the vote in his home riding of Calgary Southwest, AB, and his riding association had nearly a quarter of a million dollars in the bank at the end of 2007. [UPDATE: And, yes, that expectation did hold up.]

NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe, both in fairly safe ridings (although Layton faced a slightly more lopsided challenge), show fairly typical "take-no-chances" returns for incumbents in fairly safe seats. Layton's campaign spent close to the full limit, while Duceppe's campaign spent just about 85%. Again, they appear to have fairly strong riding associations that could raise and transfer about half the anticipated expenditure level before the campaign had even started. And both, being from smaller parties, appeared to realize the opportunity to raise money during the campaign itself.

Layton slightly outraised Duceppe during the campaign, from significantly more contributors, although to be fair his riding has a slightly higher median after-tax income than Duceppe's according to the 2006 Census: $22.7K vs. $20.5K). Duceppe's campaign received a loan of $41.1K from the central party, which appeared to have been paid off in November after another non-monetary transfer from the party office. I listed it here as a transfer from the party, as that's what it appeared to be, in effect. It looks like the Bloc central campaign had a 50:50 cost-sharing arrangement with the riding.

The surprise for me was Green Party Leader Elizabeth May's return, inasmuch as ... for all the effort that was reportedly going in to getting her a seat in the Commons ... her campaign spent only 69% of the limit, in spite of having $80K (nearly the full amount of the spending limit) transferred to the campaign by the central party office, and of raising more than the other 3 party leaders during the campaign itself. Doing a quick eyeball comparison of her return to Layton's and Duceppe's, her campaign reported significantly less on salary costs than the other two. Her campaign account wound up with a considerable surplus, which will have to be transferred either to the Central Nova Green Party riding association or to the central party, per s.473(2)(a) of the Elections Act.

Labels: 40th General Election, Bloc Québécois, Conservatives, Election Expenses, Election Finance, Greens, Liberals, NDP

UPDATED: 1997 Candidate Financials Now Added, But ...

The summary data from the 1997 Candidate Financial Reports is now uploaded alongside the 2000 Candidate Financial data.

However, while reviewing and testing that all the pages worked, I discovered that there are omissions in the summary data on the Elections Canada website. For example, the summary for Ted McWhinney, Liberal candidate and M.P. for Vancouver Quadra, BC in 1997 lists him as having no contributions. On the other hand, his detail data does show contributions.

So I'll have to review the summary data and make any necessary updates. Thus, for now, please consider the 1997 financials as interesting, but not final numbers.

Will finalize as soon as possible, and update this post when complete.

[UPDATE: Not a very satisfactory answer, but according to this page at the Elections Canada site, they were only supplying the "as submitted" data for download, not the "as reviewed" data. To quote them directly: "Please note the data found in these files reflects only the information initially received and recorded by Elections Canada." I must have missed this before. So, I'll have to see if I can get my hands on the the "as reviewed" data ... surely they've had a chance to finish that election by now.]

[FURTHER UPDATE: Elections Canada officials confirmed that the data available for download is "as submitted" only. In order to obtain the "as reviewed" data, they tell me I have to file an Access request. Thus, I've adjusted my classification of the data, and it now appears in italics, as does all the other "as submitted" data in this database. I should double-check with them to see whether the 2000 data is "as submitted" as well.]

Meantime, I haven't been able to figure out how to link to the 1997 candidate returns at the Elections Canada website reliably, so I'll have to play with that a bit to see whether it's going to be possible. Also, note that no candidate rebate information has been entered for the 2004 and 2006 elections as yet, since not all the returns have been reviewed by Elections Canada. Oh, and there are a few by-elections missing as well, but they'll be added over the coming week as time permits.

Nevertheless once the 1997 data is complete, and as soon as Elections Canada completes its work reviewing the outstanding Candidate Returns from 2004 and 2006, we'll have a dataset spanning four general elections of candidate fund-raising and election spending.

Here's how that history looks for each of the political parties (which you can locate by selecting a party from the Quick Search drop-down in the left-hand column, or via the "Browse Parties" menu item to your left).

Labels: 36th (1997) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

2000 Candidate Financials Now Added

The candidate financial reports for the 2000 General Election have now been imported. Since all the 2000 reports have been reviewed by Elections Canada (and therefore none remain "As submitted by the candidate"), you'll notice that none appear in italics. And in addition, since the entire reports could be downloaded in a single flat file from Elections Canada, I was able to obtain the necessary details in order to link to the exact webpage for each candidate's return at the Elections Canada website (see the small Elections Canada icon next to the candidate's name).

For example, in the older version of LaSalle – Émard, QC, click on the "Financial Metrics" tab (or click here), and notice the small icon to the left of each candidate, like this (

) . Clicking on the one to the left of Paul Martin's name brings us to the candidate details section of his 2000 Election Return.

Note that the rules and reporting categories changed substantially between 2000 and 2004. In most cases in 2000, direct transfers from registered parties were recorded as contributions from Corporations without share capital (group 'E'), and were lumped together with any individual, corporate or trade union contributions collected by the party office on behalf of the local candidate and transferred over to the candidate's campaign. Similarly direct transfers from "electoral district associations" (riding associations) were recorded as contributions from Unincorporated organizations and associations (group 'F'), and were also lumped together with any individual, corporate and trade union contributions collected by the riding or provincial section or other party trust fund on the candidate's behalf, before being transferred to the candidate. However, group 'F' contributions also included those made by non-political associations in 2000. I also noticed some individual contributions that were perhaps misclassified between groups 'E' and 'F'.

Since I had already been following the practice here of summing transfers from riding associations with contributions collected during the campaign period and calling it "Raised Locally", the caveats above should not have too much impact on the comparability of 2000 and 2004 metrics. But due to an occasional misclassification, something that looks like a central party transfer could wind up being counted as something "raised locally". Plus, due to the inclusion of contribution amounts in group 'E', the group 'E' total will sometimes overstate the extent of central campaign support of the local campaign. I just left the data the way Elections Canada reports it, but may try to break things down further sometime in the future.

This addition of data leaves just 1997 returns plus those from a few by-elections waiting to be entered. Candidate return data for the 2008 election will likely not be ready for some time, however.

As time permits, I'll be reviewing and updating any candidate returns from 2004 and 2006 which have moved from the "As submitted" stage to the "As reviewed" state, and adding the connecting details to allow for a direct link to candidate returns for those elections as well. Once all the candidate financial data is in, some new analyses will become possible as well.

Labels: 37th (2000) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance

News briefs

A few items worth noting today:

The Chief Electoral Officer has received a notice from the Speaker of a vacancy in Don Valley West, ON, Liberal M.P. John Godfrey having now resigned as expected on his revised schedule. The earliest a by-election can now be held in that riding is, as previously calculated here, on Monday September 22.
The Liberals will open the polls in 10 locations for a 6 1/2 hour period on Thursday, August 14, for members to select their candidate in Desnethé – Missinippi – Churchill River, SK, facing newly elected Conservative M.P. Robert Clarke.
The Green Party will have until nominations close on Monday, August 18 to name its candidate for the Saint-Lambert, QC by-election currently underway. The full list of candidates for all three by-election ridings will be released by Elections Canada on Thursday August 21.
The registered political parties' 2nd Quarter Financial Returns are now available on the Elections Canada website. Readers have asked if this data will be included on the Pundits' Guide, to which the answer is: yes, eventually. My first focus has been election results and finance, but of course what happens between elections is clearly of relevance, so I will be getting to it sooner or later.
Facebook: to date the single most controversial item of data posted here. I've received several emails, and it's also being blogged about here. No-one believes it's important and yet everyone has written to me about it. Think we'll be collecting this data for awhile then!

Labels: 40th General Election Nominations, Don Valley West, Election Finance, Facebook Watch, Fall 2008 By-elections

Links to Candidate Financial Returns at Elections Canada

I've begun the slow process of recording the exact way to link to each Candidate's financial return details at the Elections Canada site ... and not surprisingly, I started with the three ridings in which -- if the Ottawa rumour mill is right -- we're expecting by-election calls later today.

So, if you reach the "Financial Metrics" tab of a riding profile, and see an icon like this (

) next to the candidate's name, click on it and you'll be instantly transported to the correct spot at the Elections Canada web-site. I'll be adding them to the candidate profile page as well shortly.

Labels: Election Expenses, Election Finance

Refinement to Party Spending Stats Table

In an earlier post, I described the new Party Stats Tables available on the Browse Parties page, as soon as you select either a Party or an Election there.

When that table was first created, the data for candidates on the right-hand side did not change as one was drilling down further by province or region, etc. But I found myself curious about those questions, so even though it made life a bit more complicated, I've changed things again so you can see the data change on drill-down.

Hence, suppose for example you're interested in how much the NDP spent on its 7 candidate campaigns in Newfoundland ...

go to the Browse Parties page (or click here)
select the NDP from the drop-down list next to the chart, and then
select Newfoundland from the province list next to the chart

(or click here).

The same principles apply whether you want to see:

how much Liberal candidates spent in Québec,
how much Conservative candidates in the 905 West area,
or what Green candidates spent across British Columbia
or even how much the Bloc spent on riding campaigns in the West Island of Montréal.

Remember, the data on the left-hand side represent what the Party was allowed to spend and did spend nationally (i.e., on the central campaign, now that we're all experts on election finance). A party's national spending limits are based on how many candidates it ran across the country.

However, the data on the right-hand side represent what the party's Candidates were allowed to spend (this is the side that changes if you drill down). Thus, if you drill down by region, province or "local region", the sum of the candidate limits and expenditures on the right hand side changes relative to the national limits and amounts spent (which always stay the same) on the left-hand side.

Labels: Election Expenses, Election Finance

The "Donald Affadavit" List - Part III

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

The "Donald Affadavit" List - Part II

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

The "Donald Affadavit" List - Part I

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

The Conservative List

In a blog-post earlier today, Aaron Wherry of "The Commons" at Macleans.ca transcribed a list of 65 of the 2006 Conservative candidates identified by Liberal M.P. Dominic LeBlanc as being possible persons of interest in the legal dispute between Elections Canada and the Conservative Party.

To be helpful, I've further transposed that list here, added hyperlinks to the Riding Financial Metrics pages here at the Pundits' Guide, and re-organized them by the party contest in 2006.

If anyone knows who the other two candidates might be (I've been reading 67, but only count 65 here), drop me a line and I'll add them.

Also, for the sake of balance and comparison, I'll now be looking for the names of the examples the Conservative Party gave of transfers in other parties, but again if anyone can point me in the right direction on that score as well, they'll be posted here sooner.

[UPDATE: I believe, based on some reader correspondence, the print edition of the Globe & Mail and a CBC television story from last night that the other two are Liberato Martelli in Bourassa, and Patrick Robert in Gatineau. Those two names have been added below.]

[FURTHER UPDATE: I also notice that Stephen Taylor and Steve Janke have posted documents from the Conservatives about other cases of transfers, so I'll document any names I find there in a separate post tonight.]

[FINAL UPDATE: An alert reader has drawn my attention to this CP story from last week, which had the complete and correct list from the Elections Commissioner's warrant documents. In fact, Liberato Martelli in Bourassa was not the 67th name, Garreth McDonald from Winnipeg North was. The list below has been amended accordingly.]

List of Conservative candidates named by the Liberals as participating in election finance transfers

(courtesy Aaron Wherry, "The Commons" at macleans.ca)

Riding		Cons. candidate	Contest
QC	Beauce	BERNIER, Maxime (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Beauport – Limoilou	BOUCHER, Sylvie (F)	Cons-BQ
QC	Charlesbourg – Haute-Saint-Charles	PETIT, Daniel (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Lévis – Bellechasse	BLANEY, Steven (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Lotbinière – Chutes-de-la-Chaudière	GOURDE, Jacques (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Louis-Hébert	HARVEY, Luc (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Louis-Saint-Laurent	VERNER, Josée (F)	Cons-BQ
QC	Mégantic – L'Érable	PARADIS, Christian (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Pontiac	CANNON, Lawrence (M)	Cons-BQ
ON	Sarnia – Lambton	DAVIDSON, Patricia (Pat) A. (F)	Cons-Lib
BC	Cariboo – Prince George	HARRIS, Richard (Dick) (M)	Cons-Lib
BC	Kelowna – Lake Country	CANNAN, Ronald D.E. (M)	Cons-Lib
BC	Okanagan – Coquihalla	DAY, Stockwell B. (M)	Cons-Lib
SK	Cypress Hills – Grasslands	ANDERSON, David L. (Cons) (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Kootenay – Columbia	ABBOTT, Jim (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Okanagan – Shuswap	MAYES, Colin (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Prince George – Peace River	HILL, Jay D. (M)	Cons-NDP
NL	Bonavista – Gander – Grand Falls – Windsor	HYNES, Aaron (M)	Lib-Cons
NL	Humber – St. Barbe – Baie Verte	PELLEY JR., Cyril (M)	Lib-Cons
NL	Labrador	GOUDIE, Joseph (M)	Lib-Cons
NL	Random – Burin – St. George's	DOWNEY, Cynthia (F)	Lib-Cons
PE	Malpeque	NOBLE, George (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Beauséjour	LEGER, Omer (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Moncton – Riverview – Dieppe	DOUCET, Charles (M)	Lib-Cons
QC	Lac-Saint-Louis	PAINE, Andrea (F)	Lib-Cons
QC	Mount Royal	DRABKIN, Neil Martin (M)	Lib-Cons
QC	Pierrefonds – Dollard	RAE, Don (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Kitchener Centre	CAGE, Steven (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Scarborough Centre	JAMES, Roxanne L. (F)	Lib-Cons
ON	Vaughan	MAJKOT, Richard (M)	Lib-Cons
SK	Desnethé – Missinippi – Churchill River	HARRISON, Jeremy E. (M)	Lib-Cons
NS	Dartmouth – Cole Harbour	CAMPBELL, Robert A. (M)	Lib-NDP
NS	Halifax West	KHOSLA, Rakesh (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	Algoma – Manitoulin – Kapuskasing	WEST, Ian (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	Davenport	RODRIGUES, Theresa (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Thunder Bay – Rainy River	LESKOWSKI, David (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	York South – Weston	HALICKI, Stephen (M)	Lib-NDP
BC	Esquimalt – Juan de Fuca	DESOUZA, Troy (M)	Lib-NDP
BC	Vancouver Kingsway	WONG, Kanman (M)	Lib-NDP
QC	~~Bourassa~~	~~MARTELLI, Liberato (M)~~	~~Lib-BQ~~
QC	Hull – Aylmer	POIRIER, Gilles (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine	MACKENZIE, Allen F. (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Saint-Laurent – Cartierville	ALAM, Ishrat (F)	Lib-BQ
BC	Burnaby – Douglas	DRAZENOVIC, George (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	Burnaby – New Westminster	DALTON, Marc (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	Vancouver East	PAGTAKHAN, Elizabeth M. (F)	NDP-Lib
MB	Winnipeg Centre	STERZER, Helen (F)	NDP-Lib
MB	Winnipeg North	MCDONALD, Garreth (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	London – Fanshawe	MAILER, Dan (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Parkdale – High Park	KLUFAS, Jurij (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Timmins – James Bay	GRAHAM, Ken (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Toronto – Danforth	CLAUSEN, Kren (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Trinity – Spadina	GOLDSTEIN, Sam (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Windsor West	TESHUBA, Alfonso (M)	NDP-Lib
NS	Halifax	HOUSE, Andrew (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	Nanaimo – Cowichan	SOWDEN, Norm (M)	NDP-Cons
QC	Argenteuil – Papineau – Mirabel	COURVILLE, Suzanne (F)	BQ-Cons
QC	Bas-Richelieu – Nicolet – Bécancour	HÉLIE-LAMBERT, Marie-Ève (F)	BQ-Cons
QC	Compton – Stanstead	CALDWELL, Gary (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Drummond	PINEAULT, Jean-Marie (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Laurentides – Labelle	BEAUREGARD, Jean-Serge (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Montmorency – Charlevoix – Haute-Côte-Nord	LABERGE, Yves (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Québec	BOISVERT, Frédérik (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Richmond – Arthabaska	LANDRY, Jean (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Shefford	LAMBERT, Jean (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Sherbrooke	NADEAU, Marc (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Gatineau	ROBERT, Patrick (M)	BQ-Lib
QC	Portneuf – Jacques-Cartier	BRUCE, Howard M. (M)	Ind-BQ

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

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