Tuesday, April 28, 2015

2012 Alberta Election Results Poll by Poll

There's only one week left until the provincial election!

I figure this as good a time as any to remind everyone of the full results from 2012. I'm going to do it a little differently than most map sources have. 

As an example, Wikipedia has this map of election results for each of the 87 electoral districts in Alberta:


This map suggests to me that two-thirds of rural Alberta voted strongly PC in 2012, rural Alberta south of Red Deer voted Wildrose, and the cities were a mix of mostly PC, Liberal, and NDP voters.

You know what's more interesting than that though? Poll by poll results. Each of the 87 electoral districts represent dozens of polls, and looking at these results can lead to a more detailed view of how people voted almost down to a neighborhood-by-neighborhood level. For instance, here's the full map of Alberta:


And here's Calgary and Edmonton:



If you're a fan of interactive maps, feel free to play with this!



For each poll, the colour represents the party with the most votes, and dark colours mean that the leading party had over 50% of the vote. Blue is for PC, red is Liberal, orange is NDP, and Wildrose is green.

The results generally follow the pattern of the overall district results, though showing significantly more Wildrose rural support up north than the original map would have us believe. As a fun exercise to the reader, I encourage you to try to find the four polls that the Alberta Party won, and the one lonely poll that the communist party won (hint: Calgary-East).

Remember to go vote next Tuesday!

3 comments:

Tony Hill said...

Would you be willing to share the dataset behind your 2012 election maps? I am the Hill whose work on compactness in Canada you used on your previous blog post on gerrymandering. I am tlh at alum dot mit dot edu.

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