Toronto, in Colour

[bcholmes]

So, channelling Tufte, I'm interested in producing some shaded graphs of Toronto's 2004 election results to visualize the results more clearly. Here's the "first past the post" results, courtesy of Elections Canada:

(For Americans: in Canada, blue is bad and red is good. But orange is even better).

The one orange riding is, of course, Toronto-Danforth, where NDP party leader Jack Layton represents the riding. There were several close ridings -- my own riding (Trinity-Spadina) was 23,202 votes for Liberal Tony Ianno versus 22,397 votes for NDP Olivia Chow.

Comments

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

My riding, Davenport (http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/riding/122/), has been Liberal every time since 1962. Funny, I hadn't thought of it as such a liberal neighborhood at all. Maybe that's just my bias showing-- the part I live in is very Catholic.

Yep, it's my little red riding 'hood. (I'm so sorry.)

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

No, you're not.

(I'm just sorry I didn't think of it first. :P )

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

But orange is even better

That's a matter of opinion. :P

Interesting map. Belinda Stronach was elected as a Conservative, though - and isn't she the MP for Vaughn or Richmond Hill, or somewhere up there?

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

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