{"id":3138,"date":"2007-05-22T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/your-vote-counts-or-does-it\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:41:59","slug":"your-vote-counts-or-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/your-vote-counts-or-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"your vote counts – or does it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a little bemused about Ontario wanting 21 extra MPs<\/a>, so I did some sums to see how many MPs each province\/territory should have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		2005 Population<\/strong><\/td>\n‘Fair’ Ridings<\/strong><\/td>\nActual Ridings<\/strong><\/td>\n%age over\/under represented<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Canada (total)<\/strong><\/td>\n32,270,500<\/td>\n308<\/td>\n308<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newfoundland and Labrador<\/strong><\/td>\n516,000<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n+42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prince Edward Island<\/strong><\/td>\n138,100<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n+203%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nova Scotia<\/strong><\/td>\n937,900<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n+23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Brunswick<\/strong><\/td>\n752,000<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n+39%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quebec<\/strong><\/td>\n7,598,100<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n+3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ontario<\/strong><\/td>\n12,541,400<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n106<\/td>\n-11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manitoba<\/strong><\/td>\n1,177,600<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n+25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saskatchewan<\/strong><\/td>\n994,100<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n+48%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alberta<\/strong><\/td>\n3,256,800<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n-10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
British Columbia<\/strong><\/td>\n4,254,500<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n-11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yukon Territory<\/strong><\/td>\n31,000<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n+238%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northwest Territories<\/strong><\/td>\n43,000<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n+144%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nunavut<\/strong><\/td>\n30,000<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n+249%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The population data is from StatsCan<\/a> for 2005, and the riding counts from Wikipedia, and checked on CBC’s election 2006 site. My analysis is a bit simplistic; everyone counted as population gets the same federal representation.<\/p>\n

Ontario, BC and Alberta are getting stiffed. Quebec is the fairest of them all. But if you really want your vote to count, and you can’t handle the Territories, move to PEI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a little bemused about Ontario wanting 21 extra MPs, so I did some sums to see how many MPs each province\/territory should have: 2005 Population ‘Fair’ Ridings Actual Ridings %age over\/under represented Canada (total) 32,270,500 308 308   Newfoundland and Labrador 516,000 5 7 +42% Prince Edward Island 138,100 1 4 +203% Nova […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1200,548,550,62,549,551,547],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-canada","tag-federal","tag-province","tag-rant","tag-ridings","tag-territory","tag-vote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-OC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}