Directeur générale des élections du Québec - DGEQ Data & Maps

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

The DGEQ has some maps and a postal code lookup.  It does not however have the names of representatives for these ridings (http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/find_electoral_division.asp?sect=no2).

The site includes the following data in an excell spreadsheet (http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/module_recherche_cp.asp and associated metadata are explained here - http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/messages/desc_fichier.asp):

• the postal code;
• the electoral division (the code and name);
• the municipality (the code, name and designation);
• the RCM (the code and name);
• the administrative region (the code and name).

There are also some socio demographic (http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/statistical_data2.asp) data by electoral riding, albeit in a PDF format, while there are data from 2001 and 2006 censuses in two seperate documents and it seems the complete serieds can be downloaded.  It would of couse be far more exciting if these were in maps and interactive.

There is also an area for the electoral results for - hey - the last elections in 2007 (http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/resultats_gen.asp).  These are not shared in a sexy easy to use and interactive internetly way but are available nonetheless!  Wow! You can also get a summary of election results from 1867 onward (http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/fr/pdf/Election_1867_2007_fr.pdf) cool! 

While there is a ton of info, there are few maps and charts that help see trends, changes and a picture what is and who is where of the Province.  Also, unfortunately there is little or no interactivity beyond the drop down lookup tools and the find your riding map - click to zoom.

Since I am not a citizen of La belle province!  I am not getting any grassroots electoral stuff like votefortheenvironment in my inbox!  Would you fine folks living just across the river from me be so kind as to send me any cool grass roots, logitiel libre or interesting videos or open government type of things? 

Cheers
t


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Tracey P. Lauriault
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https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault

[Robin Millette]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 15:19, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

> While there is a ton of info, there are few maps and charts that help see
> trends, changes and a picture what is and who is where of the Province.
> Also, unfortunately there is little or no interactivity beyond the drop down
> lookup tools and the find your riding map - click to zoom.
>
> Since I am not a citizen of La belle province!  I am not getting any
> grassroots electoral stuff like votefortheenvironment in my inbox!  Would
> you fine folks living just across the river from me be so kind as to send me
> any cool grass roots, logitiel libre or interesting videos or open
> government type of things?

I had my eyes set on those files for a while. With the new job,
celebration cms saturday and new voip gizmo sunday (I hate
technology!), oh, and the fact that I can't get to my server at
Koumbit from my Acanac dsl line means I didn't have time to do
anything about it but it's on my todo list for tonight. Hopefully, I
can have something up tomorrow, I can upload from Station C.

Will keep you posted.

Oh, I haven't heard of anything else in the works :(

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Robin