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Published: 2018-02-16 23:07:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 2291; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 5
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Here is a map I made recently while learning how to use QGIS, depicting the 2015 Canadian Federal Election with the results done by federal electoral district. It was made using information made available by the Canadian government and uses a slightly modified scale from the US Election Atlas. Considering doing more in-depth maps of different provinces or provincial elections in the future as I get better at learning QGIS. Enjoy!Related content
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Lookin' handsome. Any new AH projects in the pipe, if it's not pestering to ask?
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There are, just hit a bad funk lately. I actually have a big project with lots of maps halfway finished but hard to keep going on it.
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I'd say I really look forward to seeing it but maybe that would be pressuring you?
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Don't mind the pressure, just in one of those creative funks. But on the other side, the last creative funk spawned a bunch of other work so could be good.
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Toix, you'll have to teach me to use QGIS because it's a programme I have yet to even begin to understand - do you know of some good tutorials?
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Truth be told, this was basically just informal learning from and fiddling around until I managed to get something that seemed right. I could give some help and look up tutorials if you like, though.
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Alberta is so blue someone should check if its breathing properly XD.
Hope you enjoy working with QGIS. I found it a lot easier to learn then some of the other GIS software out there.
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Blue is just such a lovely color though.
I did enjoy it, though still working to figure out exactly how it works. Do you have any tutorials you used, by chance? I did this basically via an unofficial and kinda messy tutorial/tutoring and would like to learn more.
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I got started with QGIS because it was taught in one of my classes, and from there I mostly just googled "how to do X in QGIS" or asked others. I still mostly use ArcGIS, so my familiarity with QGIS is also not as high as I would like.
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What makes me interested is how polarized some of the provinces can be. Alberta deeply Conservative blue in this election and then the Maritimes deeply Liberal red. And then in the 90s Ontario getting returns of almost every seat for the Liberal Party despite its size (whereas here in America even very liberal California and very conservative Texas have mixed results due to size). Was a learning experience to be sure.
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The reason that Ontario gave almost all its seats to the Liberals in '93 was because of a the resentment towards the PC party at the time, people were mad at how Mulroney had run the show. And with the Reform party being to far right, and the NDP too far left, a lot of Ontario's voters were most comfortable with voting for the Liberals. It is still wild how all but one of Ontario's seats went to the liberals in 1993.
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Ah I see, I guess that makes sense that people felt like they were forced into the middle. Still pretty amazing to me. What was the big beef with Mulroney and the PC anyway? And it's still just wild, even knowing that, to see such a lopsided victory. I mean the Liberals still won kinda lopsided in Ontario in 2015 but not "all seats but 1" at least.
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Mulroney was initially very popular, his victory in '84 was the last time a party won more then 50% of the popular vote, he rolled back the NEP, privatized several crown corporations and was able to hold together conservatives from across the country. Even though he wasn't able to fulfill his promise to reduce the deficit created by the Liberals, overall the actions his government took during his first mandate were received positively. It was the shit he pulled after the 1988 election that got people pissed off. The two biggest policies that people hated were the signing of NAFTA and the introduction of the GST, especially the GST, which was an effort to reduce the deficit but went against the ideology of the party. It didn't help that the Canadian media had turned against the PC party, and like in 2015, it helped swing the election. The other component that lead to the PC's horrendous performance in the '93 election was that Mulroney's "Grand Coalition" of Western and Quebecois Conservatives fell apart as the Bloc gained provenance and the Reform party stole seats from the PC's in the west. Even though the PC party got third in the popular vote, their support was to spread out to translate into seats so they went from a majority of 156 seats to 2. Up until their merger with the Alliance party (the successor to the Reform Party) in 2003, the PC's never had more then 25 seats.
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Wow, that is incredibly detailed and really interesting! Thanks for the feedback. I feel kinda awful because I'm American but know relatively little of Canadian electoral history pre-Harper, but find it really fascinating. Makes sense why people would abandon him en masse, though. I kind of really want to now do, like, the 1984 election and 1993 election in the same style as this map for comparison since the swings are so fascinating to me. Thanks so much for explaining, it's a big help.
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No problem, glad a non-Canadian has taken some interest in our politics!
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Honestly, Canadian politics is, at least from what I've been learning, more interesting than in the United States. Just as far as how people are very fickle and much more willing to go with whoever cuts Canada the best deal rather than party loyalty, so you can see massive swings year to year while in the United States as "massive swing" is never that large compared to many other nations. Very cool to learn about.
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On the other hand, it always strikes me how deeply red the Maritimes were for the election.
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Yeah. It even weirded the CBC out that they got *every* seat.
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