The Canadian Municipal Election Study

McGregor, R. Michael; Anderson, Cameron D.; Bélanger, Éric; Breux, Sandra; Lucas, Jack; Matthews, J. Scott; Mévellec, Anne; Moore, Aaron A.; Pruysers, Scott; Stephenson, Laura B.; Tolley, Erin

doi:10.3389/fpos.2021.745331

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“…Recent years have seen an increase in the study of municipal elections, including an exploration of public opinion through the Canadian Municipal Elections Study (McGregor et al, 2021), a database of election results (Lucas et al, 2021), an agenda on municipal campaign finance (Taylor & Vanhooren, 2021), and research on Internet voting (Essex & Goodman, 2020). However, fewer scholars have considered issues of how Canadian municipal elections are administered and regulated when compared with the body of research on Canadian federal elections, or comparative electoral management around the world (James et al, 2019).…”

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Where regulation counts: Provincial regulation of municipal elections in Canada

Garnett

Keir

2022

Can Public Adm

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How comprehensive are the provincial regulations of municipal elections in Canada? We know the “rules of the game” matter for electoral integrity but know comparatively little about these regulations at the municipal level in Canada. This question importantly highlights issues of electoral integrity at the municipal level in Canada as well as levels of centralization (or decentralization) between provinces and municipalities. To address these issues, this article presents an overview of the regulation of municipal elections in Canada using the framework from the European Electoral Performance Index (EEPI). It examines the variations in regulation of electoral management, from voter registration to post‐election dispute resolution. It then discusses the areas most commonly and least commonly regulated for Canadian municipalities, highlighting some key gaps in the regulation of municipal elections in Canada.

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Where regulation counts: Provincial regulation of municipal elections in Canada

Garnett

Keir

2022

Can Public Adm

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The structure of municipal voting in Vancouver

Armstrong

Lucas

2022

Journal of Urban Affairs

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We offer a new interpretation of the structure of municipal electoral competition in Vancouver, focusing on the city's high-profile municipal election in 2018. Using novel "cast vote records" -a dataset containing each of the 176,450 ballots cast in the city's municipal election -we use a Bayesian multidimensional scaling procedure to estimate the location of every 2018 candidate and voter in Vancouver in a shared two-dimensional political space. We then use data from the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES), a large election survey undertaken in Vancouver in 2018, to interpret this political space, assessing 96 possible correlates of CMES respondents' locations in political space. We find evidence of a single primary dimension of competition, structured by left-right ideology, along with a secondary dimension dividing establishment from upstart parties of the right. Our paper supplies a new interpretation of Vancouver's electoral landscape, clarifies our understanding of the role of left-right ideology in municipal electoral competition, and demonstrates the promise of cast vote records for research on municipal elections and voting.

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The Canadian Municipal Election Study

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Where regulation counts: Provincial regulation of municipal elections in Canada

Where regulation counts: Provincial regulation of municipal elections in Canada

The structure of municipal voting in Vancouver

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