30 Sep Tools for election geeks

Redistribution has changed the boundaries of most of the 51 ridings to be contested in next week’s Nova Scotia election. For the benefit of number-crunching geeks like us, Elections Nova Scotia has thoughtfully projected the poll-by-poll results of the 2006 2009 election (or any subsequent byelection) onto the new electoral districts, and published the results in PDF format. The chart shows how many votes each candidate would have received if the current boundaries had been in effect at the time of the 2006 2009 election.

Here are the results, sorted by riding name (red = Liberal winner; blue = PC):

Here they are again, sorted by the winner’s margin of victory, starting with the tightest race.

Apologies to the Atlantica Party and various independents whom I omitted from these tables to make them readable at Contrarian’s maximum column width. The complete results can be found in the Election Nova Scotia PDF, and in my own Excel spreadsheet, which you can download here. The latter may contain errors; Please let me know if you find any.