Now that the Alberta election is done, I figured I'd post a short post just showing visually where the party support bases were located. Nothing too flashy or stats-heavy this time. Hopefully more analysis will follow!
First of all, based on unofficial results, the voter turnout last night was 57.01%. Not great, but how does that look visually?
Northern Alberta seems to have suffered the most to bad turnout, with an interesting grouping of solid turnout in the center. Both Edmonton and Calgary had poor turnout in their northeast halves for some reason. Feel free to zoom and click on the map, it's actually a lot of fun (red is low turnout, and green is high).
How about the Liberal support:
The Liberals didn't even run a full slate of candidates, so it's not terribly surprising that most of the map is blank. They did well in the one riding that they actually won, though, and did respectfully in Edmonton-Centre.
The PCs:
PC vote was surprisingly consistent across most rural areas, however that meant it was mostly consistent and low. Edmonton center and north were particularly low for the PCs, but otherwise the variation across the rest of the ridings was fairly minimal.
Wildrose:
Not terribly surprisingly, Wildrose support was concentrated in the southern rural parts of the province. As official opposition in the new government, they don't have any seats in urban ridings. This is fairly concerning, and hopefully won't create any further urban/rural divides in Alberta.
Finally, the NDP winners:
The NDP did very well in the cities and northwest rural ridings, but urban ridings south of Edmonton were more of a struggle for them. Interestingly enough, there is a substantial hole in NDP support in Calgary-Elbow, suggesting strategic anti-PC voting took precedence down there. I'm sure Greg Clark is appreciative.
There you go! Once the recount is done in Calgary-Glenmore (where it is currently tied between the NDP and PCs), I'll hopefully come back with more election analysis!
3 comments:
How do you apply the riding map and colour scaling over Google Maps? That's a great skill to have.
Great maps. Low turnouts typically reflect a younger or lower-income demographics which would make sense in both the Northeast of Calgary and Edmonton. Thanks for sharing
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