Atlantic Ridings to Watch

Thanks everyone for stopping by the temporary home of NB taxpayer and I. I wanted to take a brief look at the region before delving back into a more New Brunswick-centric take on the election, which I began on my main blog a little while back.

So, I will do a quick blow-by-blow of the 32 ridings in Atlantic Canada. The first 17 are safe and are unlikely to change hands, while the latter 15 could be interesting. I'll just list the boringsafe seats and do a brief overview of those that have the potential to move.

Safe ridings

• Acadie—Bathurst, NB (New Democratic)
• Beauséjour, NB (Liberal)
• Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL (Liberal)
• Charlottetown, PE (Liberal)
• Cape Breton—Canso, NS (Liberal)
• Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS (Liberal)
• Fundy Royal, NB (Conservative)
• Halifax West, NS (Liberal)
• Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL (Liberal)
• Kings—Hants, NS (Liberal)
• Labrador (Liberal)
• Malpeque, PE (currently Liberal)
• New Brunswick Southwest (Conservative)
• Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS (New Democratic)
• South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS (Conservative)
• Sydney—Victoria, NS (Liberal)
• Tobique—Mactaquac, NB (Conservative)

So we're off to the races with Libs 11, CPC 4 and NDP 2.

This post was way too long, I am splitting it into four smaller posts on battlegrounds which you can find at:

• Newfoundland & Labrador
• Prince Edward Island
• Nova Scotia
• New Brunswick

My preliminary findings from the battlegrounds would be the following (vs. the last election) for the 32 Atlantic seats:

Lib 19 (-1)
CPC 8 (-1)
NDP 4 (+1)
Ind 1 (+1)