Riding hashtags - now with edits!

So I made up hashtags for every riding. With Twitter being abuzz, I think this it would be good to get some standardization when talking about individual ridings. Here's my effort:

Newfoundland
Avalon - #ava
Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor - #bonggfw
Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte - #humstbbv
Labrador - #lab
Random—Burin—St. George's #ranburstg
St. John's East #stje
St. John's South—Mount Pearl #stjsmp

Nova Scotia
Cape Breton—Canso - #capebc
Central Nova - #cenn
Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley - #ccmv
Dartmouth—Cole Harbour - #dch
Halifax - #hal
Halifax West -#halw
Kings—Hants - #kingh
Sackville—Eastern Shore -#sackves
South Shore—St. Margaret's - #ssstm
Sydney—Victoria - #sydv
West Nova - #westn

New Brunswick
Acadie—Bathurst - #acbath
Beauséjour -#bejour
Fredericton - #fred
Fundy Royal - #fundyr
Madawaska—Restigouche - #madarest
Miramichi - #mira
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe - #monrivdie
New Brunswick Southwest -#nbsw
Saint John - #saintj
Tobique—Mactaquac - #tobmac

PEI
Cardigan - #card
Charlottetown - #charl
Egmont - #egm
Malpeque - #mal

Quebec
Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou -#abbkne
Abitibi—Témiscamingue - #abtemi
Ahuntsic -#ahunt
Alfred-Pellan - #alpel
Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel -#arpami
Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour -#basrnb
Beauce - #beauce
Beauharnois—Salaberry - #beasal
Beauport—Limoilou - #bealim
Berthier—Maskinongé - #bermas
Bourassa - #bour
Brome—Missisquoi - #bromis
Brossard—La Prairie -#brolapr
Chambly—Borduas - #chambor
Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles - #charhstc
Châteauguay—Saint-Constant - #chatstc
Chicoutimi—Le Fjord - #chilefj
Compton—Stanstead - #comstan
Drummond - #drumm
Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine - #gidlm
Gatineau - #gatin
Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia - #hgmmm
Hochelaga - #hoch
Honoré-Mercier - #honmer
Hull—Aylmer - #hulayl
Jeanne-Le Ber - #jeleber
Joliette - #joli
Jonquière—Alma - #jonal
La Pointe-de-l'Île - #lapdi
Lac-Saint-Louis - #lacstl
LaSalle—Émard -#lasem
Laurentides—Labelle - #laurla
Laurier—Sainte-Marie - #laursm
Laval -#lav
Laval—Les Îles - #lavli
Lévis—Bellechasse -#levbel
Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher - #longpb
Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière - #lotcdlc
Louis-Hébert - #louheb
Louis-Saint-Laurent - #loustl
Manicouagan -#mancou
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin - #marcaf
Mégantic—L'Érable - #megler
Montcalm - #montc
Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup - #mlikr
Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord - #monchcn
Mount Royal - #mountr
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine - #ndgl
Outremont - #out
Papineau - #pap
Pierrefonds—Dollard - #pierd
Pontiac - #pont
Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier – #portjc
Québec - #que
Repentigny - #repent
Richmond—Arthabaska - #richarth
Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques - #rimtemlb
Rivière-des-Mille-Îles - #rivdmi
Rivière-du-Nord - #rivdn
Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean - #roblstj
Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie - #roselpp
Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert - #stbsth
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot - #sthb
Saint-Jean - #stjean
Saint-Lambert - #stlam
Saint-Laurent—Cartierville - #stlaucar
Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel - #stlstm
Saint-Maurice—Champlain - #stmcham
Shefford - #sheff
Sherbrooke - #sherb
Terrebonne—Blainville - #terbla
Trois-Rivières - #troriv
Vaudreuil-Soulanges - #vaudsoul
Verchères—Les Patriotes - #verlp
Westmount—Ville-Marie- #westvm

Ontario
Ajax—Pickering - #ajpick
Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing - #almankap
Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale - #ADFW
Barrie - #barr
Beaches—East York - #beaey
Bramalea—Gore—Malton - #bramgm
Brampton—Springdale - #bramsp
Brampton West - #bramw
Brant -#brant
Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound - #bgos
Burlington - #burl
Cambridge #camb
Carleton—Mississippi Mills - #cmm
Chatham-Kent—Essex -#chatke
Davenport - #dav
Don Valley East - #dve
Don Valley West - #dvw
Dufferin—Caledon - #dufcal
Durham - #dur
Eglinton—Lawrence - #eglaw
Elgin—Middlesex—London - #elmidl
Essex - #esx
Etobicoke Centre - #etoc
Etobicoke—Lakeshore - #etol
Etobicoke North - #eton
Glengarry—Prescott—Russell - #gpr
Guelph - #gue
Haldimand—Norfolk - #halnor
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock - #hklb
Halton - #hal
Hamilton Centre - #hamc
Hamilton East—Stoney Creek - hamesc
Hamilton Mountain - #hamm
Huron—Bruce - #hurbru
Kenora - #ken
Kingston and the Islands - #kingi
Kitchener Centre - #kitchc
Kitchener—Conestoga - #kitchcon
Kitchener—Waterloo - #kitchw
Lambton—Kent—Middlesex - #lamkenmid
Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington - #lfla
Leeds—Grenville - #leedg
London—Fanshawe - #lonf
London North Centre - #lonnc
London West - #lonw
Markham—Unionville -#marku
Mississauga—Brampton South - #msbrams
Mississauga East—Cooksville -#msecook
Mississauga—Erindale -#mserin
Mississauga South -#mssou
Mississauga—Streetsville - #msstre
Nepean—Carleton -#nepcar
Newmarket—Aurora -#newaur
Niagara Falls -#niafal
Niagara West—Glanbrook - #niawglan
Nickel Belt -#nickbel
Nipissing—Timiskaming - #niptim
Northumberland—Quinte West - #nqw
Oak Ridges—Markham - #oakrimark
Oakville - #oakv
Oshawa -#osh
Ottawa Centre -#ottc
Ottawa—Orléans - #otto
Ottawa South - #otts
Ottawa—Vanier - #ottv
Ottawa West—Nepean - #ottwn
Oxford - #oxf
Parkdale—High Park - #parkhp
Parry Sound—Muskoka - #parsomusk
Perth—Wellington - #perwel
Peterborough - #petbro
Pickering—Scarborough East - #picscare
Prince Edward—Hastings - #prinehast
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke - #rennippem
Richmond Hill - #richhill
St. Catharines - #stcath
St. Paul's - #stpaul
Sarnia—Lambton - #sarlam
Sault Ste. Marie - #saulstm
Scarborough—Agincourt - #scarag
Scarborough Centre - #scarc
Scarborough—Guildwood - #scarguil
Scarborough—Rouge River -#scarrour
Scarborough Southwest - #scarsw
Simcoe—Grey - #simgrey
Simcoe North - #simn
Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry - #sdsg
Sudbury - #sudb
Thornhill -#thorn
Thunder Bay—Rainy River - #thunbrr
Thunder Bay—Superior North - #thunbsn
Timmins—James Bay - #timjb
Toronto Centre - #torc
Toronto—Danforth - #tord
Trinity—Spadina - #trinspa
Vaughan -#vaug
Welland - #well
Wellington—Halton Hills - #wellhh
Whitby—Oshawa - #whosh
Willowdale - #willow
Windsor—Tecumseh - #wintec
Windsor West - #winw
York Centre -#yorkc
York—Simcoe -#yorksim
York South—Weston #yorksw
York West #yorkw

Manitoba
Brandon—Souris - #branso
Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia - #charstjas
Churchill - #chur
Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette - #dausrm
Elmwood—Transcona - #elmtra
Kildonan—St. Paul -#kilstp
Portage—Lisgar - #portlis
Provencher - #prov
Saint Boniface -#stbon
Selkirk—Interlake - #selin
Winnipeg Centre -#wpegc
Winnipeg North - #wpegn
Winnipeg South - #wpegs
Winnipeg South Centre - #wpegsc

Saskatchewan
Battlefords—Lloydminster -#batlloyd
Blackstrap - #blkstr
Cypress Hills—Grasslands - #cyhilg
Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River - #dmcr
Palliser - #pall
Prince Albert -#princea
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre - #regllc
Regina—Qu'Appelle - #regqu
Saskatoon—Humboldt - #saskh
Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar -#saskrb
Saskatoon—Wanuskewin - #saskw
Souris—Moose Mountain - #soumm
Wascana - #wasc
Yorkton—Melville - #yorkmel

Alberta
Calgary Centre - #calc
Calgary Centre-North - #calcn
Calgary East -#cale
Calgary Northeast - #calne
Calgary—Nose Hill - #calnh
Calgary Southeast - #calse
Calgary Southwest - #calsw
Calgary West - #calw
Crowfoot -#cro
Edmonton Centre -#edmc
Edmonton East - #edme
Edmonton—Leduc - #edml
Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont - #edmmwb
Edmonton—St. Albert - #edmsta
Edmonton—Sherwood Park - #edmsp
Edmonton—Spruce Grove - #edmsg
Edmonton—Strathcona - #edmstra
Fort McMurray—Athabasca - #ftmcath
Lethbridge - #leth
Macleod - #macl
Medicine Hat -#medih
Peace River -#peariv
Red Deer -#redd
Vegreville—Wainwright - #vegwain
Westlock—St. Paul - #weststp
Wetaskiwin - #weta
Wild Rose -#wldr
Yellowhead - #ylwh

BC
Abbotsford - #abb
British Columbia Southern Interior -#bcsi
Burnaby—Douglas -#burdoug
Burnaby—New Westminster - #burnw
Cariboo—Prince George -#carpg
Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon -#chilfc
Delta—Richmond East - #delre
Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca -#esqjdf
Fleetwood—Port Kells - #flepk
Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo - #kamthocar
Kelowna—Lake Country - #kellc
Kootenay—Columbia - #koocol
Langley - #lang
Nanaimo—Alberni - #nanalb
Nanaimo—Cowichan - #nancow
Newton—North Delta - #newnd
New Westminster—Coquitlam - #nwcoq
North Vancouver -nvan
Okanagan—Coquihalla - #okaco
Okanagan—Shuswap - #okashu
Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission - #pmmpm
Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam - #pmwpc
Prince George—Peace River - #pgpr
Richmond - #rich
Saanich—Gulf Islands - #sgi
Skeena—Bulkley Valley - #skebv
South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale - #sswrc
Surrey North - #surn
Vancouver Centre -#vanc
Vancouver East - #vane
Vancouver Island North -#vanisln
Vancouver Kingsway -#vank
Vancouver Quadra -#vanq
Vancouver South - #vans
Victoria - #vic
West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country - #wvscskc

North
Yukon - #yuk
Western Arctic - #warc
Nunivut - #nun

Provincial nomination progress, NDP and Greens

Neither the ONDP or GPO have nominated a particularly large slate so far, so I combined them here.

The NDP haven't nominated a whole lot of candidates so far as I can tell, and they so far seemed to have focused on the GTA. I could only find one notice of someone running for an ONDP nomination up North, which I found surprising considering that the party wants to win more seats up there. 3 of the seats so far nominated could be described as target ridings - Ottawa Centre, London-Fanshawe, and York South-Weston.

The Greens obviously don't have any incumbent MPP's, and the focus has seemed to be on Eastern Ontario and the GTA. Of the seats where the Greens could be considered players last time around, only Ottawa Centre has nominated, with the top two targets for the party, Guelph and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, still without candidates, although party leader

Mike Schreiner is running in Simcoe-Grey, which could provide a possible boost to the Greens in BGOS, particularly with no incumbent MPP running.

I'll periodically update these maps and have links to other provincial nomination news.

Equal Voice National Leadership Summit

The Equal Voice National Leadership Summit is going on in Ottawa today, and I'll be providing live updates via Twitter if you want to follow along at www.twitter.com/WilliamNorman

You can also watch the live webcast at http://equalvoice.ca/

Provincial nomination progress, PC edition

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The most colour-complex map, for start. The PC's have nominated almost all of their caucus, with only Steve Clark of Leeds-Grenville, Jerry Ouellette of Oshawa, and leader Tim Hudak yet to be officially nominated. I think we can probably assume Hudak will probably wait until just before the writ drops and use his nomination as a campaign kick-off event.

The PC's either have a candidate nominated, or have declared candidates, in most unheld ridings in southern Ontario, although they still have gaps in the GTA (particularly the GTA West, which I find somewhat surprising considering the seats in Mississauga, Brampton, and Etobikoe tend to be swing ridings), urban Ottawa, Guelph, Hamilton, Windsor, and Northern Ontario.

Of the top 10 closest ridings the PC's fell short in in 2007, the PC's have candidates nominated in 7 of them (Nippisisng, Barrie, Kitchener-Constoga, Eglinton-Lawrence, Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, London-Fanshawe, and Oak Ridges-Markham) and have declared candidates for the nominated in the other 3 (ADFW, SD & SG, and Don Valley West). While the PC's have somewhat neglected urban Ontario, the GTA West suburbs, and Northern Ontario, they seem to be focused nomination wise on Southwestern Ontario and the east end of the GTA.

The PC's have nominated candidates in one of the seats with a retiring MPP, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, and have declared candidates for nominations in the other 2, Burlington and Cambridge. The PC's also have a unique sitution of an incumbent MPP facing a legitimate challenge for the nomination, with Norm Sterling, the longest serving PC MPP facing a challenge from his right with the Randy Hillier backed Jack Maclaren (who has been buying a ton of Facebook ad's) attempting to take him down.

I'll take a look at the NDP next time.

A look at provincial candidate nomination progress - Liberals

So on a whim, I decided to whip up some tracking maps of each party's nomination progress, as far as I could tell. You'll probably want to click on the maps for full size, and to tell the colour shades apart. I've decided to include Sarah Thompson's rumoured campaign (since it seems pretty confirmed) in Trinity Spadina.

Edit: Click the link for full size map - http://i56.tinypic.com/2dhtf5z.png

The OLP has nominated mostly incumbants to start with, focusing on mid-town Toronto, the outer suburbs, Southwestern Ontario, and Northern Ontario. The Liberals are being tactical in unheld ridings with either a nominated candidate, or an active nomination going on. Liberals have candidates in Halton and Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington, which were the 2 ridings the Liberals came closest to snatching from the PC's in 2007, Thornhill was only lost by 3.6% , Cambridge and Burlington were only lost by 7.6% and 3.5% respectively and have retiring PC incumbents, and while Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound is a bit of a longer shot, it too has a retiring PC MPP.

Liberals have active nomination processes in at least 2 ridings with retiring incumbants that I can identify, with 3 candidates going for the prize in Stormont-Dundas-South Glengary, and at least Nancy Fonseca has declared in Mississauga East-Cooksville.

I'll post the progress of the other parties over the next few days.