{"id":765,"date":"2006-01-25T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/2006\/01\/25\/765\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T05:12:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T12:12:54","slug":"canadian-election-analysis-urban-vs-rural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/765\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Election Analysis: Urban vs Rural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talking about the urban-vs-rural divide in Canada and the US with my roommate yesterday; today I realized I could actually demonstrate it.<\/p>\n<p>I scraped data from two websites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canadavotes\/\">CBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.ca\/\">Elections Canada<\/a>, since the latter doesn&#8217;t yet have election results. So here&#8217;s what I found:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/files\/election.png\" alt=\"population density vs vote scatterplots\" width=\"401\" height=\"278\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What are you seeing here? Each point is a single riding. The x-axis shows population density. The y-axis shows the votes for that party as a percentage of the votes to the four major national parties (Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Green), and the scale is <em>different<\/em> for each. The Bloc Quebecois are not considered here, since they only participate in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, this data seems to show that the <strong>Liberals weakly correlate with high population density<\/strong>, and the <strong>Conservatives correlate strongly with low population density<\/strong>. I tried making similar graphs using the <em>logarithm<\/em> of population density, but that didn&#8217;t reveal anything differently.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s quite a lot more that can be done with the data I used, you can find it all in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/files\/election.xls\">this Excel file<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about the urban-vs-rural divide in Canada and the US with my roommate yesterday; today I realized I could actually demonstrate it. I scraped data from two websites: CBC and Elections Canada, since the latter doesn&#8217;t yet have election results. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/765\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[212,216,245,242,24,246],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canada","tag-election","tag-rural","tag-statistics","tag-urban","tag-urbanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}