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why is the yukon lighter than nunavut when they both have 1 conservative seat and nothing else?

the shades are for popular votes, not number of seats won, as this is an FPTP election. the map-maker insisted on showing too much information it got confusing. –HTD (ITN: Where no updates but is stickied happens.) 07:06, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PEI

Is the shading for PEI right? Did the Conservatives really manage to take a plurality in the province overall but still only win one out of four seats? --Jfruh (talk) 22:14, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See Results by riding of the Canadian federal election, 2011#Prince Edward Island and Canadian federal election, 2011#Results by province -- it appears that the Conservatives won with 41.2 vs. the Liberals' 41.0%.

There are 2 things you need to know when reading the map: the color and its shades is not related to number of seats won. Either this should be via riding w/ no shading via popular vote (there's another map, but it has shades accdg. to popular vote, which is ridiculous), or via province/territory w/ shading via percentage of seats won (like the Irish ones). –HTD (ITN: Where no updates but is stickied happens.) 18:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do understand what the shading means -- just was trying to get my head around how real-world voting could actually produce a result where the #1 party in the province only got 1 out of 4 seats. The answer is demonstrated by the links you posted -- because the races were all relatively close and 3-way races at that. --Jfruh (talk) 19:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]