Charting the Votes: Canada's Federal Election '08

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Veteran political analyst Will McMartin uses charts and analysis to break down the key factors in B.C.'s closest federal races.

In This Series

opinion

Saanich-Gulf Islands voting trends

Charting the Votes for Gary Lunn

Can Tory keep Saanich-Gulf Islands after New Dem quit?

By Will McMartin, 29 Sep 2008

opinion

Chart-Federal Liberal Election Results

Charting the Vote for Grits in BC

In recent elections, Liberals hovered at 28 per cent. Now they’re falling short.

By Will McMartin, 30 Sep 2008

opinion

Graph of NDP electoral results

Charting When NDP Votes Rise

Layton's team may be lucky New Dems aren't running BC or Ontario.

By Will McMartin, 1 Oct 2008

opinion

Tory Graphs

Charting the Votes where Tories are Strongest

Conservative support in BC skews to North, Interior and south Fraser Valley.

By Will McMartin, 2 Oct 2008

opinion

Incumbent Graph

Charting the Vote for Incumbents

Four or five will lose their jobs, if this election is true to form.

By Will McMartin, 3 Oct 2008

opinion

Graph of Van Centre Electoral Results

Charting the Votes for Hedy Fry

Vancouver Centre's Grit incumbent faces strong foes -- and the Dion factor.

By Will McMartin, 6 Oct 2008

opinion

Visible Minority Graph

Charting the Votes of Visible Minority Members

Most are concentrated in Vancouver and suburbs.

By Will McMartin, 7 Oct 2008

opinion

Peter Mackay electoral support graph cropped

Charting May's Chances against MacKay

Green leader a long shot to unseat Tory stalwart in Central Nova.

By Will McMartin, 8 Oct 2008

opinion

Graph of BC South-Interior Electoral Results

Charting the Votes for a Rural Showdown

NDP and Tories duke it out in BC Southern Interior riding.

By Will McMartin, 9 Oct 2008

opinion

Electoral results of Nanaimo-Cowichan (graph)

Charting the Votes in Nanaimo-Cowichan

Is this the making of an NDP stronghold?

By Will McMartin, 10 Oct 2008

The Gem of Canadian Science that Harper Killed

Experimental Lakes Area was world famous; its findings might have saved Canada billions.

By Andrew Nikiforuk