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Which Edmonton City Councillor are you?
I've done this before, and had so much fun with it that I'm happy to once again present: A Buzzfeed-style quiz to get you more in touch with your elected representatives!(it's totally ok if that doesn't excite you as much as it excites me)Without further ado, here is a quiz for you to play a...
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I've done this before, and had so much fun with it that I'm happy to once again present: A Buzzfeed-style quiz to get you more in touch with your elected representatives!(it's totally ok if that doesn't excite you as much as it excites me)Without further ado, here is a quiz for you to play a...
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Alberta 2019 Election Post-mortem
Well that was fun!How did I do?For more than a year now I've been tracking Alberta election polls with the hope of developing a reasonably accurate prediction model. Overall, I'm happy to report that the party I predicted in the lead won in 80 out of 87 races, and my riding qualifiers broke ...
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Well that was fun!How did I do?For more than a year now I've been tracking Alberta election polls with the hope of developing a reasonably accurate prediction model. Overall, I'm happy to report that the party I predicted in the lead won in 80 out of 87 races, and my riding qualifiers broke ...
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London Instant Runoff Breakdown
London (Ontario) just had its first election using instant-runoff balloting. As I've mentioned before, I'm very interested in different forms of electoral reform, so as a new resident of London I was intrigued as to how the vote would work out.London's system is a bit unusual inasmuch as voters c...
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London (Ontario) just had its first election using instant-runoff balloting. As I've mentioned before, I'm very interested in different forms of electoral reform, so as a new resident of London I was intrigued as to how the vote would work out.London's system is a bit unusual inasmuch as voters c...
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London City Council
Wow it's been a while since my last post. My apologies!A principal reason for this is that I've moved - I'm no longer an Edmontonian, and am now a Londoner! London Ontario, that is. This almost definitely means I won't stop posts about Edmonton, but does mean that I'll be increasing my Ontario co...
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Wow it's been a while since my last post. My apologies!A principal reason for this is that I've moved - I'm no longer an Edmontonian, and am now a Londoner! London Ontario, that is. This almost definitely means I won't stop posts about Edmonton, but does mean that I'll be increasing my Ontario co...
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Ontario Election Wrap-up
The 2018 Ontario General Election is over, and if your team won then congratulations to you!Over the last month or so I've been tracking the election polls and testing out a few different ideas in order to improve a general model that I'll end up using for the upcoming Alberta election. Of c...
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The 2018 Ontario General Election is over, and if your team won then congratulations to you!Over the last month or so I've been tracking the election polls and testing out a few different ideas in order to improve a general model that I'll end up using for the upcoming Alberta election. Of c...
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Alberta Electoral Districts
A few months ago, the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission released its report with recommendations on how to redistrict the province for the 2019 election. As I discussed before, this is an important process that occurs every eight to ten years, and is necessary for keeping the provincia...
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A few months ago, the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission released its report with recommendations on how to redistrict the province for the 2019 election. As I discussed before, this is an important process that occurs every eight to ten years, and is necessary for keeping the provincia...
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Edmonton Election 2017
Another election has come and gone, and apart from a handful of new faces the biggest news is all the new stats! Let's take a look:First of all, turnout was abysmal. A total of 194,826 people voted, resulting in a voter turnout of 31.5%. The best (blue) and worst (red) areas of the city in terms ...
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Another election has come and gone, and apart from a handful of new faces the biggest news is all the new stats! Let's take a look:First of all, turnout was abysmal. A total of 194,826 people voted, resulting in a voter turnout of 31.5%. The best (blue) and worst (red) areas of the city in terms ...
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Edmonton City Council Gender Parity
Back in October I took a quick look at the success rates of female candidates getting into city council. In 2013, 22% of candidates were female, but only one out of the twelve council seats ended up being held by a woman. The aim of that post was to investigate some of the source of the gend...
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Back in October I took a quick look at the success rates of female candidates getting into city council. In 2013, 22% of candidates were female, but only one out of the twelve council seats ended up being held by a woman. The aim of that post was to investigate some of the source of the gend...
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Next Game Wins?
(Subtitle: Which Game Should You Win? Part 3)Three years ago, my friend Andrew pitched in to the blog and asked which game in the playoffs was most worth winning. The results were a bit inconclusive, but from it he developed a database of all playoff outcomes since 1943, so a year later I looked ...
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(Subtitle: Which Game Should You Win? Part 3)Three years ago, my friend Andrew pitched in to the blog and asked which game in the playoffs was most worth winning. The results were a bit inconclusive, but from it he developed a database of all playoff outcomes since 1943, so a year later I looked ...
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How often does the best team win the championship?
Imagine we have a four team single-elimination tournament. Team A is good enough that you'd expect them to win about 80% of all games, Team B ought to win about 60%, Team C should win 40%, and Team D ought to win about 20% of games (against random opponents). If we seeded a single elimination tou...
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Imagine we have a four team single-elimination tournament. Team A is good enough that you'd expect them to win about 80% of all games, Team B ought to win about 60%, Team C should win 40%, and Team D ought to win about 20% of games (against random opponents). If we seeded a single elimination tou...
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Redistricting in Alberta
Every eight to ten years, the Alberta Electoral Boundary Commission meets up to reconfigure the riding boundaries for upcoming elections. This is a fairly important part of our democracy, as cities are often growing, people tend to move around a lot, and keeping our boundaries updated to reflect ...
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Every eight to ten years, the Alberta Electoral Boundary Commission meets up to reconfigure the riding boundaries for upcoming elections. This is a fairly important part of our democracy, as cities are often growing, people tend to move around a lot, and keeping our boundaries updated to reflect ...
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Edmonton City Council Gender Equality
In the 2013 civic election, 79 candidates ran for mayor and city council, 17 of which were women. The election resulted in one woman getting elected out of a council of 13. Though women represent 51% of the city's population, they represented only 22% of candidates, and resulted in 8% of council ...
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In the 2013 civic election, 79 candidates ran for mayor and city council, 17 of which were women. The election resulted in one woman getting elected out of a council of 13. Though women represent 51% of the city's population, they represented only 22% of candidates, and resulted in 8% of council ...
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Edmonton Bike Safety
Bicycles in Edmonton have been in the news quite a bit recently, particularly given the success of new bicycle development in Calgary. Bicycle lanes in Edmonton have been proposed, installed, removed, illegally painted, removed again, and blocked in council quite a bit in the last few years. Frus...
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Bicycles in Edmonton have been in the news quite a bit recently, particularly given the success of new bicycle development in Calgary. Bicycle lanes in Edmonton have been proposed, installed, removed, illegally painted, removed again, and blocked in council quite a bit in the last few years. Frus...
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Edmonton City Council Votes (Part 2)
5763 vote records358 non-unanimous votes
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5763 vote records358 non-unanimous votes
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