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We are within a year of the next election, and the polls are showing a change in government. Just for fun, I've done some graphs by electoral riding. For example, here is one that shows that the ridings with the most percentage of people without a religion were more likely to vote conservative last time around, while support for the other 3 main parties got more support in religious ridings.
Polls a whole year before the election prove nothing. Can't for the next round of CPC attack ads to see what becomes of Justin. As for the NDP - who does Mulcair think he's kidding? Quebecers voted for them on a lark; they never have been and never will be a viable alternative, nor will they ever form the government. The CPC will form the next government for no other reason than Harper is the most reasonably comptent leader of the bunch...
There's a lot going on in that graph, and it's one riding in BC. I'd hardly call the Green Party a "main" party, heck, after the next election, the NDP won't be one either.
Yes. I still haven't figured out how to fix title typos.
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Originally Posted by mikeyyc
There's a lot going on in that graph, and it's one riding in BC. I'd hardly call the Green Party a "main" party, heck, after the next election, the NDP won't be one either.
All Canadian ridings are shown, but only one is labeled.
Let's look at other religious groups to see how they vote:
Your graphs need better labels. It's a poopfest of data with no way to understand it unless you knew all the data-sets beforehand, as the graph itself is unclear. It's a hot mess. I don't even know what your trend lines are there for. As the muslim population approaches 20% they have a declining share of green votes? Or as it increases they have a decreasing value of an undefined value that starts at near 20%?
Your graphs need better labels. It's a poopfest of data with no way to understand it unless you knew all the data-sets beforehand, as the graph itself is unclear. It's a hot mess. I don't even know what your trend lines are there for. As the muslim population approaches 20% they have a declining share of green votes? Or as it increases they have a decreasing value of an undefined value that starts at near 20%?
^^ this!^^^
One axis is labeled "green votes" and the other the particular religious affiliation of a given population - maybe if you listed the original source of this info we could figure it out?
The left vertical axis shows the percentage of votes the Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP got in each riding. The right vertical axis show the percentage of votes the Greens got in each riding. The reason I separated the Greens is that they needed to be scaled up to fit on the graph. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of people in each riding who adhere to a specific faith.
For example, we can follow the riding of Kelowna - Lake Country for the three main parties since it's the only one I've labelled. You can see that it's about 45% non-religious and slightly over 50% Christian. All four dots for each riding will be at the same point on the X-axis, but vary on the Y-axis based upon how much support each party got in the last election.
The trend lines merely show how support for each party changes as number of adherents to a specific faith within a riding increases.
Examples:
* The Liberals tended to get more votes in ridings with higher Muslim populations, while the other three parties did worse in higher Muslim ridings. The same trend for Buddhism exists.
*NDP and Green support increases as the number of Christians increases, while support for the Liberals and Conservatives decreases in more Christian ridings.
*Conservative support is higher in non-religious ridings while NDP, Green, and Liberal support is higher in ridings where more people have a religious faith.
Last edited by Glacierx; 09-12-2014 at 10:14 AM..
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