Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada

References

This is a list of resources to draw information from. Ideally, the information used should be referenced to the most authoritative sources possible, preferably online. Please add your comments below the appropriate resource. Is anyone willing to research how to cite sources?

Library of Parliament

• Riding history for Avalon (2003– ) from the Library of Parliament = {{CanRiding|ID=705|name = Avalon (2003– )}}

Elections Canada

• http://www.elections.ca

Gives official results, voter turnout, expenditures but is a very difficult website to link to. For example, the individual districts cannot be linked to for the 1997 finances, 2004 finances. Election finance statements can only be found in print at major libraries.

• Official voting results - 2004 Federal election
  • Poll-by-poll results by electoral district and candidate. Various other tables.

Statistics Canada

• http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/fedprofile/index.cfm

Gives all 2001 census data as profiles for the electoral districts that existed between 1996 and today.

• http://www12.statcan.ca/fedprofil/Eng/FedSelect_E.cfm

Gives 1996 census data as profiles for the electoral districts that existed between 1996 and 2003.

• Previous census data may only be available in print form at Depository libraries across Canada.
  • For 1991 Census data and the 1987 Rep order, the following Statistics Canada publications can be consulted:
    • Catalogue # 93-502 has population and dwelling counts for Federal electoral districts (1986 & 1991).
    • Catalogue # 93-533 & 93-534 (two volumes) have profiles (detailed data) of each district.

Simon Fraser University

http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/laws.html

• Comprehensive collection of federal election related info.

Libraries and Archives Canada

• Electoral Atlas of the Dominion of Canada (1895)

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Weird format for Nova Scotia MLA List tables in articles

Hello, in most Canadian electoral district articles, the table for the list of MLAs are sorted in the order from the first MLA to last (e.g. at the top, you have MLAs from the 1st assembly and at the bottom, 43rd), but in Nova Scotia's provincial ridings' articles, they use most recent on the top to least recent (e.g. 43rd at the top; 1st bottom). I feel like maybe we should change the order of that so it is more consistent with the federal articles? Nova Scotia also still doesn't use wiki table style. I might create an NS-MLA template. — Eric0892 (talk) 00:35, 30 July 2021 (UTC)