Data Sources

Per-ward Historic Candidacy Data

Note: In order to avoid advantaging incumbents, this data should just be used to inform turnout numbers & how many candidates ran in each ward.

2014 nominees: http://geohub.cambridge.ca/datasets/bdb218a179894c18b936d70249202716_0

Data from above (minus contact info for candidates) has been pulled into this google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iVnAr0SCGT7h53--xMmQ0-cQm5BdkUejbYgYIIScXlM/edit?usp=sharing

Per-ward 2014 Voter Turnout

Note: This data includes the results, too, but we should only use the voter turnout numbers.

TODO: where can we find the number of electors in each poll/ward?

Waterloo: http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/government/2014_Municipal_Election_poll_by_poll_results.xls Kitchener: https://app2.kitchener.ca/appdocs/opendata/staticdatasets/Election_Results_per_Poll_2014.xlsx Cambridge: http://maps.cambridge.ca/Images/OpenData/SharedDocuments/2014_Mayor_Council.xlsx Wilmot: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hA2T_cg2roT9YdSS0WKMjKvFMVD70HVm9y5b9Y9U2bM/edit?usp=sharing Wellesley: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eQvQlqgwRlLiS2cM6NmvRXEJHCDtGH2ZcJKcLagXoL4/edit?usp=sharing Woolwich: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yq0uwZxKPVllnE3ryakNQ2GBdglHDzmQM1yyDHV3t2E/edit?usp=sharing North Dumfries: Email sent. Can’t find any data. Regional Ward Boundaries http://rowopendata-rmw.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/8556e15d83d649e69f5806054c83ad8e_15

Polling Station Boundaries

Kitchener: http://rowopendata-rmw.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/KitchenerGIS::votingsubdivisions Waterloo: http://rowopendata-rmw.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/City-of-Waterloo::polling-boundaries-2014 TODO: Find polling boundary data for Cambridge and/or the townships...

Open data portal gathering candidate information

https://rowopendata-rmw.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/5d4fedfd1ed24206a6ca43913ba7de8c_0

RSS feeds for newspapers

https://gist.github.com/pnijjar/f27bf679a09f5e8125c5383dd37d24f7