EKOS Poll: PC Majority Government

The latest figures released by EKOS and fed into our projection model suggest that the PCs would end up with a solid majority government and bring the Ontario Liberals below 19 seats.

The Ontario NDP, meanwhile, would gain a handful of seats and Andrea Horwath would become the leader of the official opposition.

This is something to keep in mind as the Liberals and NDP negotiate over the upcoming budget.

Perhaps the NDP's list of micro-demands are a very deft move, as Horwath's reasonable gains for various constituencies in the middle of a jobs crisis wouldn't be seen as precipitating an election. If she obtains them, people may thank her. If she does not, and the Liberals take a my-way-or-the-highway approach to the budget, causing an election, the Liberals will look bad for having nothing to offer on youth unemployment.

The prize of earning Official Opposition status might be very valuable symbolically for the NDP, even though it would actually represent a net loss of power for them.

On the other hand, Hudak's preferred policies are extreme enough to likely prompt the NDP and Liberal bases to pressure their leaders to find a solution to avoid an election, which looks set to lead to an even more austerity-prone government.

Projection: "Minor Majority" for Hudak

Edit: Due to an update of our model, we now see the PCs once again in minority territory.

Based on new polling reported today in the Toronto Star, our projection whirlygigs have informed us that Tim Hudak's Progressive Conservatives are poised to form a majority government at 54 seats, versus only 27 for the Liberals. With only one seat between Hudak and the rest of the chamber, some accommodation would be needed for the Speaker position, however.

Of course, we know that this differs from the Star's headline which suggests a minority for the PCs. Indeed, our uniform swing model does come out with a minority government. We respond to this divergence in opinion by responding: you be the judge!

Seats going over to the PCs this round: Ajax-Pickering, Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale, Brampton-Springdale, Brampton West, Brant, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Kitchener Centre, Mississauga-Erindale, Niagara Falls, Oak Ridges-Markham, Oakville, Ottawa-Orléans, Ottawa West-Nepean, Peterborough, Richmond Hill, St. Catharines, and York Centre.

Click to view the full projection scorecard. 

The PCs and the Young Man-Cession

Off to look for work...

Just a quick update for now to show you two graphs we whipped up today on employment figures in Québec and Ontario.

As you can see there are several trends worth pointing out: one is that people in the 45-64 phase of their life feel compelled to stay in full-time jobs, or get into full-time jobs at much higher rates than in 2000.

At the same time, we can see at the bottom of the line graph that people 65 and older have more than doubled their full-time workloads.

Predictably, given the dearth of job growth in Ontario and Québec (53.8% Full-time employment as a percentage of the working-age population in 2000, compared to 52.5% in 2012), this means twenty-somethings have been increasingly pushed out of the full-time workforce.

Looking at the dark and light blue lines on the graph, the young folks act as a sort of canary in the coal mine for broader employment. That is, it's going down, down, down.

No Country For Young Men

Even among twenty-somethings, the effects aren't being evenly distributed. The employment rate for young men took quite a large dive in 2008-2009 and hasn't really even begun to recover. Meanwhile, the 21st century job market for young women has been rather great, on balance, especially in Québec.

A Political Opportunity?

We're all familiar with the endless media stories of youth wage scarring, that is, reduced income over time for people who were unemployed as youth.

The trend we've identified will probably make more than a few young people unhappy over time, and, if our second chart is any guide, these will disproportionately be young men, at least compared to the status quo.

Angry young men? Sounds like a prime pickup opportunity for the Conservatives!

But wait - the PC vote in prior elections is worth looking at here.

Let's pretend you are a late-20s, white, unmarried, university-educated male who lives near an urban center and is unemployed (no or low income) and not really inclined to vote. Since this is a quick update, we won't bother getting into the multivariate, predictive analyses and that kind of thing. But if we go down the shopping list of Pearson correlations, who stands out as likely to catch the Young Man-cession Vote? (Figures are for the non-North of Ontario only)

Males 25-29:  PCs: -0.465*. No other significant correlations.

Never legally married: No significant correlations, but if in a common-law relationship, the figures are Liberals -0.269 **, NDP +0.313 *, with no significant correlation to the PCs.

Renting (a likely scenario): +0.222 ** for the NDP, while for the PCs it is -0.488 **, no Liberal correlation.

Old home (before 1986): NDP +0.510 **, PCs: -0.272 **.

Other household types (e.g. roommates): Liberals 0.253 **, NDP 0.349 **, PCs -0.815 **.

Low median income in 2005 - Other household types: Liberals -0.151 *, NDP 0.457 **, no PC correlation. (We have reversed the signs)

High median rent (because in an area with transit): Liberals 0.429 **, NDP -0.379 *.

Moved within the past 5 years within same city: Liberals 0.305 ** , NDP 0.222 * , PCs -0.650 **

Education 25-34 : University at Bachelor's level or above: PCs : -0.509. 

Field of study: Humanities and the social sciences have few significant correlations, except Humanities -0.469 ** for the PCs. Let's give the PCs a break and assume Social Sciences. 

Mother tongue English only: Liberals -0.262 **, NDP -0.213 **, PCs 0.557 **. 

Knowledge of English only: NDP -.374 ** , PCs 0.098 **. 

Non-immigrants: Liberals -0.335 **, NDP -0.123 *, PCs 0.603 **. 

Not a visible minority: -0.283 ** for the Liberals and 0.565 ** for the PCs.

Population 15 and over unemployed: Liberals 0.163 **, PCs -0.598 **.

Public transit (technically employed people in the Census, but we'll pretend it applies the same): Liberals 0.549 * , NDP 0.167 ** and PCs -0.659 **

(For the number-crunchers: the stars here are the usual significance markers.)

The Results

We could go on, but the results seem pretty overwhelming, when we add these up all together in some kind of "correlation scorecard": 0.379 for the Liberals, 1.151 for the NDP, and a rather impressive -1.659 for the PCs.

The PCs seem to have turned off every potential demographic category for victims of the Young Man-cession. Indeed, when we looked at the potential for gains among the parties, there were not a whole lot of groups up for grabs anyway. We might then guess that the PC camp within the next few months is more likely to follow a base-turnout strategy rather than an attempt at making conversions.

The Messy Job of Finding the Ontario Swing Voter

Today we're going to look for the Ontario swing voter.

On Election night, when we're standing there in front of the TVs, red-faced, waiting for the vote totals to trickle in from some uncalled riding, who's fault is it? Whose hesitation between parties is keeping us from getting some sleep that night?

Building on our prior experience with correlations, we decided to look for the census data that corresponded the closest with small electoral margins.

Small margins = swing voters, according to our thinking. Opportunities for growth for the parties.

The result of our search was rather surprising.

The Front Lines of Ontario - Battleground Clusters

Number crunching and statistical analysis can get you some pretty strange things.

You've probably heard of the idea of "battleground ridings". But in this entry, we're going to take a look at battleground clusters, a name we've just made up for different k-means clusters of Ontario electoral districts.

How We Did It

We told our statistical software program to divvy up all Ontario ridings by party votes in 2011, as a percentage of electors. This puts a party's relative attractiveness into the context of how well it was able to get out the vote on election day.

We might think of these Battleground Clusters as battle fronts on a map. A battle that I must sadly view from the sidelines (for now!), as I don't work in any paid capacity for a political party, consultancy, etc. I will let the professionals be my judge.

(I am also pleased to finally be able to offer some insight into Northern Ontario ridings, because this data doesn't depend on inconsistent, well-dated census data).

Hudak's Heroes - Cows, Coal and Government Cash

Don't change horses midstream, goes the saying. Something that could apply to the 2011 Ontario Election and this website as well. How's that, you ask? Well, we've recently tweaked our methodology just in time for the last episode of this mini-series on the greatest electoral shifts among the parties in 2011. Soon we'll be going back and adding in the adjustments, and changing our commentary accordingly.

In any case, we're going to be looking at where Tim Hudak managed to get out the vote for his party in 2011, by comparing over time the correlations to a bunch of demographic indicators from the 2006 Census (the 2006 census being the latest reliable census in Canada, naturally).

Because the data for Northern Ontario ridings comes from the 2001 census, it is rather dated, and lacks a lot of the finer detail of the 2006 survey. So, once again, the following is for the Rest of Ontario only: 

What are immigrants anyway? Conservative Progress on City Dwellers

PC - it's a brand of food at the grocery store, a type of computer, a rather dated pop culture epithet, and also a political party in Ontario. The Progressive Conservative party, under its relatively new leader, Tim Hudak, didn't manage to seal the deal for a majority government in 2011.

Rather like his transatlantic counterpart Michael Howard in 2005, the PCs failed to capitalize on fatigue with a would-be third term government, and were outshone by a third-party upstart, in that case Charles Kennedy's Lib Dems (though we all know how that turned out). 

Here is a rather extensive comparison of the 2011 Progressive Conservative platform against the NDP and the Ontario Liberals, although it all reads much like the instruction manual for a microwave.

How to Lose Toronto

One bump in the road encountered by the Hudak team was its controversial criticism of tax credit programs for hiring immigrants. Having been seen, rightly or wrongly, to boldly go after one of the sacred cows of globalization, the shifts in support between the 2011 and 2007 elections certainly reflect that:

Kathleen Wynne - The Over- Education Premier?

Last time, we took a look at a rough outline of how the "SuperZips" measure invented by Charles Murray might play out in Ontario at the riding level. Let's go a step further today, by breaking down the "SuperRiding" score by standardized education level and income level. 

So Many Books, So Few Dollars

Yesterday, I noticed that my own riding, Parkdale–High Park was above the 75th percentile in SuperRiding scores. But when it came to the cold, hard cash element, P-HP was behind.

Then there was Mitt Romney's line from the debates last year; how young people "... can't find a job commensurate with their education." If 20-somethings here are over-educated for today's economy, how are the other Ontario ridings faring?

Alms for those with advanced degrees?

Below, we've posted a breakdown of the figures that led to my SuperRidings score from yesterday. We've also added a new column, the Over-Educated Score, and then weighted it by the figure for Median Family Income. A positive number suggests income lagging behind education. A negative number suggests the opposite — perhaps large numbers of baby boomers who got their diploma stamped by the mill in the 1970s, and were rewarded by an easy labour market?

Data is for the Rest of Ontario only (No Northern Ridings).

Edit: A new method was used to compute these scores. It consisted of first finding the percent score within a given riding (e.g. converting a score of 50,000 people within a riding twice that size to 50% of a riding). Then computing a standard score, based on the percent scores. Then weighting the standard scores by the population of the riding, by dividing the standard scores by the following: (Population of the riding / Average population of ridings).

Figures are based on the 2006 census, and are given for the Rest of Ontario only (i.e. Not the 11 Northern Ridings). The original figures given are found below.  

Find your Electoral District at Elections Ontario.

Riding	Weighted Standardized Score: Education 15 and over: Degree at bachelor's level or above	Weighted Standardized score: Median after-tax income in 2005 - All census families	Over-Educated Score  (Income Score minus Education Score)	Percentile Rank	2011 Party Winner
Toronto Centre	2.20	-0.51	2.71	100%	OLP
Trinity-Spadina	2.37	-0.29	2.67	99%	NDP
Don Valley East	1.39	-1.15	2.54	98%	OLP
Scarborough-Agincourt	0.51	-1.71	2.22	97%	OLP
Parkdale-High Park	2.03	-0.18	2.21	96%	NDP
Willowdale	1.99	-0.09	2.08	95%	OLP
York Centre	0.47	-1.37	1.85	94%	OLP
Toronto-Danforth	0.97	-0.74	1.71	93%	NDP
Don Valley West	2.27	0.62	1.65	92%	OLP
Ottawa Centre	2.57	0.96	1.61	91%	OLP
Scarborough Southwest	-0.09	-1.58	1.50	89%	OLP
Scarborough Centre	-0.17	-1.62	1.46	88%	OLP
York West	-0.92	-2.37	1.45	87%	OLP
Ottawa-Vanier	1.23	-0.19	1.42	86%	OLP
St Paul's	2.65	1.25	1.40	85%	OLP
Mississauga East-Cooksville	0.47	-0.93	1.40	84%	OLP
Scarborough-Guildwood	-0.27	-1.64	1.37	83%	OLP
Etobicoke North	-0.36	-1.66	1.30	82%	OLP
Beaches-East York	1.03	-0.26	1.29	81%	NDP
Davenport	-0.31	-1.56	1.26	80%	NDP
Scarborough-Rouge River	-0.06	-1.30	1.24	79%	OLP
Hamilton Centre	-0.47	-1.68	1.20	78%	NDP
Ottawa West-Nepean	0.84	-0.24	1.08	77%	OLP
York South-Weston	-0.91	-1.87	0.96	76%	OLP
Eglinton-Lawrence	1.90	1.01	0.90	75%	OLP
Ottawa South	0.95	0.19	0.76	74%	OLP
Etobicoke-Lakeshore	0.90	0.19	0.70	73%	OLP
London North Centre	0.45	-0.19	0.63	72%	OLP
Richmond Hill	1.22	0.66	0.56	71%	OLP
Windsor West	-0.07	-0.58	0.51	69%	OLP
Markham-Unionville	0.44	-0.05	0.49	68%	OLP
Kingston and the Islands	0.30	-0.17	0.47	67%	OLP
Etobicoke Centre	0.74	0.30	0.44	66%	OLP
Mississauga-Brampton South	0.55	0.14	0.41	65%	OLP
Bramalea-Gore-Malton	-0.32	-0.66	0.34	64%	NDP
Thornhill	1.36	1.10	0.26	63%	PC
London West	0.42	0.18	0.24	62%	OLP
Prince Edward-Hastings	-1.00	-1.20	0.20	61%	PC
St. Catharines	-0.61	-0.73	0.12	60%	OLP
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound	-1.19	-1.24	0.05	59%	PC
Peterborough	-0.68	-0.72	0.04	58%	OLP
Guelph	0.35	0.39	-0.04	57%	OLP
Mississauga-Erindale	0.69	0.75	-0.07	56%	OLP
Kitchener-Waterloo	0.75	0.85	-0.09	55%	PC
Niagara Falls	-0.80	-0.70	-0.10	54%	OLP
Simcoe North	-0.90	-0.73	-0.17	53%	PC
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry	-1.33	-1.16	-0.17	52%	PC
Brampton West	-0.28	-0.07	-0.21	51%	OLP
Kitchener Centre	-0.55	-0.32	-0.23	49%	OLP
Brampton-Springdale	-0.31	-0.08	-0.23	48%	OLP
Mississauga South	0.58	0.83	-0.25	47%	OLP
Hamilton East-Stoney Creek	-1.15	-0.88	-0.28	46%	NDP
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke	-1.23	-0.92	-0.31	45%	PC
Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock	-1.12	-0.79	-0.33	44%	PC
Mississauga-Streetsville	0.55	0.89	-0.34	43%	OLP
Windsor-Tecumseh	-0.42	-0.07	-0.35	42%	OLP
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington	-0.92	-0.57	-0.35	41%	PC
Leeds-Grenville	-1.03	-0.64	-0.39	40%	PC
Welland	-0.99	-0.58	-0.41	39%	NDP
London-Fanshawe	-1.22	-0.81	-0.41	38%	NDP
Northumberland-Quinte West	-1.03	-0.62	-0.41	37%	PC
Oak Ridges-Markham	0.55	0.98	-0.44	36%	OLP
Chatham-Kent-Essex	-1.24	-0.61	-0.63	35%	PC
Brant	-0.91	-0.28	-0.63	34%	OLP
Hamilton Mountain	-0.96	-0.29	-0.67	33%	NDP
Barrie	-0.71	0.05	-0.75	32%	PC
Burlington	0.04	0.80	-0.77	31%	PC
Nepean-Carleton	0.85	1.67	-0.81	29%	PC
Haldimand-Norfolk	-1.37	-0.52	-0.85	28%	PC
Huron-Bruce	-1.25	-0.38	-0.86	27%	PC
Simcoe-Grey	-0.76	0.12	-0.88	26%	PC
Oshawa	-1.17	-0.24	-0.93	25%	PC
Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale	0.69	1.63	-0.94	24%	OLP
Lambton-Kent-Middlesex	-1.28	-0.31	-0.97	23%	PC
Cambridge	-0.77	0.21	-0.98	22%	PC
Carleton-Mississippi Mills	1.01	2.01	-1.00	21%	PC
Glengarry-Prescott-Russell	-0.96	0.05	-1.02	20%	OLP
Kitchener-Conestoga	-0.62	0.40	-1.02	19%	PC
Halton	0.69	1.72	-1.03	18%	PC
Elgin-Middlesex-London	-1.17	-0.09	-1.08	17%	PC
Perth-Wellington	-1.30	-0.22	-1.08	16%	PC
Vaughan	-0.21	0.90	-1.12	15%	OLP
Oxford	-1.35	-0.19	-1.16	14%	PC
Sarnia-Lambton	-1.05	0.12	-1.17	13%	PC
Pickering-Scarborough East	0.05	1.39	-1.34	12%	OLP
Ajax-Pickering	-0.31	1.09	-1.40	11%	OLP
Newmarket-Aurora	0.26	1.68	-1.42	9%	PC
York-Simcoe	-1.00	0.45	-1.45	8%	PC
Oakville	1.02	2.50	-1.48	7%	OLP
Whitby-Oshawa	-0.25	1.27	-1.51	6%	PC
Ottawa-Orléans	0.74	2.26	-1.52	5%	OLP
Niagara West-Glanbrook	-0.67	0.88	-1.55	4%	PC
Dufferin-Caledon	-0.68	1.03	-1.71	3%	PC
Essex	-0.62	1.12	-1.74	2%	NDP
Durham	-0.80	1.01	-1.81	1%	PC
Wellington-Halton Hills	-0.38	1.55	-1.93	0%	PC

There's the real reason middle Ontario should be wary of multi-graduate, premier-designate Kathleen Wynne: she represents one of the most over-educated ridings in Ontario (Don Valley West). </joke>.

Meanwhile, outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty's riding, Ottawa South, barely misses the top 25% over-educated ridings.


Certain social critics might also take perverse pleasure in noting that Trinity-Spadina (Toronto's Annex, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Ossington Avenue, etc) is number 2

In Rob Ford's imagination, there are probably
more than a few of these in Trinity-Spadina

Under a stricter set of criteria, that is, searching for truly "over-educated" ridings consisting of lots of educated people making very little money (standard scores over zero for education, and less than zero for income), come out with this exclusive list : Toronto Centre, Trinity-Spadina, Don Valley East, Scarborough-Agincourt, Parkdale-High Park, Willowdale, York Centre, Toronto-Danforth, Ottawa-Vanier, Mississauga East-Cooksville, Beaches-East York, Ottawa West-Nepean, London North Centre, Markham-Unionville, followed by Kingston and the Islands.



Since the figures are from 2006, maybe the trends would be even more extreme if we had reliable 2011 census numbers.

Brains, Paupers, and the Party Vote

The NDP seems disproportionately represented at the top of the pile here, though they are sprinkled throughout the list, winning ridings all the way down to "under-educated" Essex.

Conversely, the PCs show up pretty often at the bottom, while maxing out at Thornhill, a third of the way down from the top. Is there something going on here?

We decided to check, so we assigned codes to the 2011 Ontario Election winners and looked for any correlations between Party Winner and all our various measures:

Correlations	r
Education and Party Winner	-0.30 *** ( p = 0.003 )
Income and Party Winner	-0.08
Over-Educated Score and Party Winner	-0.21 ** (p = 0.04)

The strongest correlation we found was not with any of the fanciful scores invented here, but actually just plain old education. The next-highest? The over-educated score.

Something interesting for the parties to keep in mind: 2006 family median income apparently had no significant correlation to 2011 party vote at all.

Of course, we would have to reword that for the statisticians: the null hypothesis, where income has no relationship to party vote, cannot be rejected.

But this goes to show you why you should check your figures with some kind of statistical test before jumping to too-hasty a conclusion.


A Nice Note

We have to point out, of course, that "Educated" (% BAs) isn't conterminous with training or seriousness (sorry to burst your bubble, Trinity Bellwoods Park hipsters).

One likely source of income disproportionate to the number of BAs found in a riding are the skilled trades.

Case in point: the roommate at our house who brings home all the money is in wood-working. 

Original tables:

Here is the old data from 3 Feb 2013, using a slightly less sophisticated (we think now) method:

Education Score (after Murray) Rest of Ontario only	Std % Education Score	Std Median Income Score	Super-Riding Score	Super-Riding Score (weighted)	Over- Educated Score	Over- Educated Score (Weighted)	2011 Winner
Willowdale	2.28	-0.12	-2.14	-1.92	2.40	2.35	OLP
Trinity-Spadina	2.12	-0.32	-1.56	-1.73	2.43	2.30	NDP
Toronto Centre	1.87	-0.53	-1.87	-1.70	2.40	2.18	OLP
Don Valley East	1.39	-1.10	1.72	2.09	2.49	2.01	OLP
Don Valley West	2.27	0.62	1.89	1.97	1.65	1.83	OLP
Parkdale-High Park	1.67	-0.17	-1.33	-1.17	1.84	1.79	NDP
Scarborough-Agincourt	0.56	-1.66	-1.52	-1.40	2.22	1.57	OLP
Ottawa Centre	2.22	0.92	-0.86	-0.77	1.30	1.51	OLP
York Centre	0.62	-1.33	-2.09	-2.00	1.95	1.50	OLP
St. Paul's	2.33	1.19	-1.69	-1.57	1.13	1.37	OLP
Toronto-Danforth	0.87	-0.66	-1.60	-1.72	1.53	1.36	NDP
Mississauga East-Cooksville	0.55	-1.00	0.20	0.19	1.55	1.28	OLP
Eglinton-Lawrence	1.91	0.85	1.48	1.63	1.06	1.22	OLP
Beaches-East York	0.91	-0.25	3.52	3.32	1.16	1.11	NDP
Ottawa-Vanier	0.99	-0.12	-1.18	-1.10	1.11	1.09	OLP
Scarborough Centre	-0.05	-1.47	-1.37	-1.36	1.42	1.05	OLP
Ottawa West-Nepean	0.89	-0.18	-0.55	-0.79	1.07	1.04	OLP
Scarborough-Rouge River	-0.08	-1.48	-1.60	-1.42	1.40	1.04	OLP
Scarborough Southwest	-0.02	-1.35	-1.50	-1.37	1.33	1.02	OLP
Scarborough-Guildwood	-0.19	-1.51	-1.48	-1.42	1.31	0.97	OLP
Etobicoke North	-0.30	-1.61	1.33	1.25	1.32	0.94	OLP
Davenport	-0.22	-1.39	2.03	2.10	1.17	0.89	NDP
Ottawa South	0.98	0.14	-0.73	-0.77	0.84	0.86	OLP
Hamilton Centre	-0.45	-1.63	0.97	0.97	1.18	0.84	NDP
York West	-0.76	-2.05	-2.81	-2.48	1.29	0.83	OLP
Richmond Hill	1.30	0.59	-1.24	-1.29	0.71	0.79	OLP
Etobicoke-Lakeshore	0.92	0.17	1.23	1.16	0.75	0.77	OLP
Etobicoke Centre	0.94	0.29	1.51	1.31	0.64	0.68	OLP
York South-Weston	-0.83	-1.80	-2.09	-2.08	0.97	0.66	OLP
Markham-Unionville	0.45	-0.22	0.19	0.19	0.67	0.64	OLP
London North Centre	0.46	-0.18	0.29	0.27	0.64	0.62	OLP
Thornhill	1.60	1.12	-1.67	-1.69	0.48	0.57	PC
Mississauga-Brampton South	0.62	0.05	-0.21	-0.20	0.57	0.57	OLP
Windsor West	-0.05	-0.60	-1.96	-1.94	0.56	0.50	OLP
Bramalea-Gore-Malton	-0.42	-0.93	2.77	3.13	0.50	0.42	NDP
Kingston and the Islands	0.24	-0.17	0.72	0.70	0.41	0.40	OLP
London West	0.48	0.18	0.23	0.24	0.30	0.31	OLP
St. Catharines	-0.55	-0.69	-1.69	-1.55	0.14	0.13	OLP
Prince Edward-Hastings	-1.00	-1.09	-1.45	-1.28	0.09	0.08	PC
Mississauga-Erindale	0.89	0.83	-0.48	-0.48	0.06	0.07	OLP
Peterborough	-0.63	-0.67	-1.24	-1.19	0.05	0.04	OLP
Kitchener-Waterloo	0.87	0.89	0.66	0.59	-0.02	-0.03	PC
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound	-1.09	-1.05	2.89	2.87	-0.04	-0.03	PC
Guelph	0.34	0.38	1.12	1.12	-0.05	-0.05	OLP
Niagara Falls	-0.87	-0.73	-0.58	-0.64	-0.15	-0.13	OLP
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry	-1.17	-0.97	-1.70	-1.57	-0.19	-0.16	PC
Kitchener Centre	-0.46	-0.29	0.71	0.66	-0.17	-0.16	OLP
Mississauga South	0.57	0.76	0.07	0.07	-0.19	-0.21	OLP
Simcoe North	-0.97	-0.71	-1.48	-1.47	-0.26	-0.23	PC
Brampton-Springdale	-0.38	-0.14	2.72	3.04	-0.24	-0.23	OLP
Hamilton East-Stoney Creek	-1.12	-0.84	0.67	0.78	-0.28	-0.24	NDP
Brampton West	-0.43	-0.12	2.14	3.07	-0.30	-0.30	OLP
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke	-1.09	-0.72	-1.30	-1.29	-0.37	-0.33	PC
Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock	-1.15	-0.77	0.81	1.06	-0.38	-0.33	PC
London-Fanshawe	-1.13	-0.75	0.22	0.19	-0.38	-0.33	NDP
Mississauga-Streetsville	0.59	0.89	-0.45	-0.48	-0.29	-0.34	OLP
Windsor-Tecumseh	-0.43	-0.05	-1.92	-1.94	-0.38	-0.37	OLP
Welland	-0.95	-0.53	-1.91	-1.76	-0.42	-0.38	NDP
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington	-0.99	-0.49	0.32	0.30	-0.50	-0.45	PC
Leeds-Grenville	-0.97	-0.46	0.29	0.28	-0.51	-0.47	PC
Northumberland-Quinte West	-1.12	-0.59	-0.74	-0.68	-0.53	-0.48	PC
Chatham-Kent-Essex	-1.14	-0.55	2.27	2.15	-0.60	-0.54	PC
Hamilton Mountain	-0.96	-0.28	0.75	0.75	-0.67	-0.64	NDP
Brant	-0.98	-0.27	3.14	2.91	-0.70	-0.67	OLP
Haldimand-Norfolk	-1.25	-0.44	1.09	1.06	-0.81	-0.75	PC
Huron-Bruce	-1.13	-0.32	0.87	0.75	-0.82	-0.77	PC
Oak Ridges-Markham	0.76	1.38	-0.72	-0.69	-0.63	-0.78	OLP
Lambton-Kent-Middlesex	-1.18	-0.32	0.51	0.54	-0.86	-0.81	PC
Barrie	-0.77	0.11	3.54	3.42	-0.88	-0.89	PC
Burlington	0.09	0.88	2.82	2.63	-0.79	-0.91	PC
Perth-Wellington	-1.14	-0.19	-1.37	-1.18	-0.95	-0.92	PC
Glengarry-Prescott-Russell	-0.89	0.07	1.24	1.12	-0.96	-0.97	OLP
Oshawa	-1.19	-0.18	-0.83	-0.73	-1.01	-0.98	PC
Elgin-Middlesex-London	-1.10	-0.08	1.24	1.43	-1.02	-1.01	PC
Oxford	-1.18	-0.14	-1.32	-1.15	-1.05	-1.02	PC
Kitchener-Conestoga	-0.59	0.38	0.66	0.66	-0.97	-1.04	PC
Simcoe-Grey	-0.87	0.14	-1.81	-1.52	-1.01	-1.04	PC
Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale	0.71	1.56	3.28	3.58	-0.85	-1.08	OLP
Sarnia-Lambton	-0.97	0.11	-1.25	-1.33	-1.07	-1.09	PC
Cambridge	-0.83	0.25	2.76	2.58	-1.09	-1.13	PC
Nepean-Carleton	0.86	1.91	-0.52	-0.53	-1.04	-1.39	PC
Pickering-Scarborough East	0.04	1.20	-1.42	-1.20	-1.16	-1.41	OLP
Vaughan	-0.26	1.07	-1.35	-1.75	-1.34	-1.59	OLP
Ajax-Pickering	-0.30	1.05	3.03	3.90	-1.35	-1.59	OLP
Carleton-Mississippi Mills	1.04	2.23	2.16	2.37	-1.19	-1.66	PC
Niagara West-Glanbrook	-0.63	0.83	-0.65	-0.67	-1.47	-1.68	PC
York-Simcoe	-1.03	0.51	-2.63	-2.56	-1.55	-1.69	PC
Newmarket-Aurora	0.29	1.73	-0.52	-0.59	-1.44	-1.88	PC
Oakville	1.10	2.45	-0.66	-0.72	-1.35	-1.93	OLP
Dufferin-Caledon	-0.67	0.99	1.77	1.90	-1.66	-1.95	PC
Halton	0.79	2.23	1.08	1.02	-1.44	-2.00	PC
Ottawa-Orléans	0.68	2.14	-1.10	-1.05	-1.47	-2.01	OLP
Essex	-0.65	1.17	1.34	1.38	-1.82	-2.19	NDP
Whitby-Oshawa	-0.26	1.49	-2.14	-1.81	-1.75	-2.21	PC
Durham	-0.84	1.03	1.80	1.76	-1.87	-2.21	PC
Wellington-Halton Hills	-0.38	1.46	-1.72	-1.80	-1.84	-2.32	PC

Correlations with Party winner, 2011	r	r2
Correl 1 (Over-educated score, weighted)	-0.22	0.05
Correl 2 (Over-educated score, unweighted)	-0.24	0.06
Correl 3 (SuperRiding score weighted)	0.14	0.02
Correl 4 (SuperRiding score, unweighted)	0.15	0.02
Correl 5 (Income)	-0.06	0.00
Correl 6 (Education)	-0.33	0.11