Election Results 1988 Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Government Archives Division Historical Resources Branch National Archives of Canada Prepared by: R.L. Schnarr 1989 G0002328 Table of Contents (A) Purpose (B) Description (C) Methodology (D) Sampling Information (E) Processing Information (F) Publications and Uses (G) Notes (H) Codebook (A) Voting records for each polling station in the 1988 general election pursuant to Subsection 58(9) of the Canada Elections Act. (B) The data are in ASCII characters. (RECFM=FB, LRECL=191, BLKSIZE=15280) (C) All polling divisions report via the returning officer to the Chief Electoral Officer using forms 138 and 61. The data are transferred to magnetic tape. (D) The sampling is universal, i.e. all polling stations, candidates and votes. (E) This file was processed to level I. (F) The data are printed in: Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Ottawa, 1989. (G) The data set comprises telescoped records. A province header record is followed by the appropriate electoral district header records. Each of these is followed by a record for each candidate in that riding. These are followed by a record for each poll in the riding. Field Type interpretation: C - Character string A - Alpha-numeric string N - Numeric variable Province 1 1 A Record Type - "P" 2 2-3 A Province Number 3 4-38 A Province Name (English) 4 39-73 A Province Name (Blank) 5 74-191 A Blank Electoral District 1 1 A Record Type - "H" 2 2-3 A Province Number ( Electoral ( District 3 4-6 A Electoral District Number ( Code 4 7-56 A Electoral District Name (English) 5 57-106 A Electoral District Name (French) 6 107-112 N Electoral District Population 7 113 A Electoral District Status: " " = N/A "R" = On a recount before a judge 8 114-191 A Blank Candidate 1 1 A Record Type - "E" 2 2-3 A Province Number ( Electoral ( District 3 4-6 A Electoral District Number ( Code 4 7-8 A Candidate Number "01" to "13" 5 9-54 A Candidate's Name 6 55-66 A Candidate's Party (Abbreviation) 7 67-191 A Blank Poll - Detail 1 1 C Record Type - "D" 2 2-3 A Province Number ( Electoral ( District 3 4-6 A Electoral District Number ( Code 4 7 C Poll TYPE: "R" - ordinary poll "A" - advanced poll "S" - special voting rules "V" - votes cast in Returning Officer's office 5 8-39 C Poll Name 6 40-49 C Poll Number 7 50 C Urban/Rural FLAG: "U" urban "R" rural 8 51-125 C Group Name (i.e: city, town, etc) (if applicable) 9 126 C Poll STATUS: - For all Poll Types " " - N/A (The following may replace variables 11/26) - For ordinary Poll Type "A" - Amalgamated with ordinary poll in next field "N"- No poll held "V"- Voided poll - For Advanced Poll Type "C" - Counted with ordinary poll in next field 10 127-136 C WITH - Poll Number (see previous VAR) 11/ 137-175 N Number of Votes 23 - 3 digits, occurs 13 times - for candidates in sequence of appearance of Candidate Records 24 176-179 N Number of Rejected Ballots 25 180-185 N Total Number of Votes 26 186-191 N Electors on List APPENDIX Abbreviations indicating political affiliation of candidates ABBREVIATIONS POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS ENGLISH FRENCH LIB. LIB. Liberal P.C. P.C. Progressive Conservative N.D.P. N.P.D. New Democratic Party S.C. C.S. Social Credit COMM. COMM. Communist Party of Canada LIBERT. LIBERT. Libertarian RHINO RHINO Parti Rhinoc‚ros G.P. P.V. Green Party C.R.W.P. C.R.W.P. Confederation of Regions Western Party COM'LTH REP. Party for Commonwealth C.H.P. C.H.P. Christian Heritage Party R.P. R.P. Reform Party IND. IND. Independent NIL NIL No Affiliation