I see what your trying to do but I dont know how well it works simply because its hard to compare the two maps. The Yank one is based on a vote b/t Bush and Kerry while the Canadian one has different candidates in the very irregularly sized ridings.
If you look at the results of this election on a map- http://www.elections.ca/enr/help.../help/ map_e.htm
- You can see that in pure geographic terms the Conservatives lost ground. They lost a few seats in the West and their gains are in southern Ontario which you cant make out and in Quebec which you can make out.
You miss out on the urban/rural divide too. All parties can win in the country (Conservatives are the best there thought) but the Cons were pretty much shut out of the major cites. And smaller blue-collar industrial towns like Windsor and Hamilton (NDP strongholds).

And it doesn't take provinical governments into account. Sask. and Man. have NDP governments and the BC and Ontario have had them. The Maritimes have Conservative governments. In some cases like Newfoundland and Manitoba the conservatives govern left of the liberals.

I could go on for a long time about this but my point is that Canadian politics is pretty damn complex so a simplitic map analysis isn't going to cut it.
canuckistanian | 02.12.06 - 2:25 pm | #