Riding ID

Every riding is assigned a unique and official identifier for federal and provincial elections - usually starting at 1 and incrementing. 

Riding Region

A geographical grouping of ridings you define to review cross-sectional election data based on what is relevant to your viewers.

For example, in an Ontario election, you may want a region called Metro Toronto or a Central Ontario region that runs through Lake Simcoe and the Muskokas.

Select an existing region from the list. Or, enter a new region by typing the name of the region in the field. You can select multiple regions to assign to a single riding.

Examples:

• 905

• Southwestern Ontario

• Northern Ontario

Riding Name (English)

Riding Name (French)

Some ridings, especially those with large numbers of both francophone and anglophone voters, may be named or punctuated differently in English and French.

For example, the Manitoba riding of Saint Boniface is referred to in French as "Saint-Boniface", with a hyphen.

Broadcast Name

Optional.
Use this field to provide a broadcast version of the riding name suited to your broadcast designs. It may be a well known shorter version of the official name.

Line1
Line2

Optional.
Use these fields to specify how to display the riding name in a 2-line format.

Polls in Riding

The number of polls in the riding. Automatic data feeds can report the number of polls counted and reporting once the polls close, and these metrics can be part of your broadcast output.

When creating a new riding, this value is not required.

Polls Close

This is the time of day that the polls will close
It is relative to the Election Time Zone which is set in System Preferences.

Incumbent Party

The current party that is assigned to the riding as of dissolution.
This list of parties comes from parties in the dissolution date.

Elected Party

The party who won this riding in the selected election date.
The list of parties comes from the parties in selected election date.

Used to generate an overall party results summary with overall seat change and overall vote percent change for a specific region. Displayed as a graph in Flow or output as blade data.

Riding Notes

Descriptive text known as an insight about the riding, such as geographical characteristics and riding borders, population demographics, industry details, and other noteworthy information. You can apply some basic text formatting options to the insight text as needed.

For example, the Niagara Falls riding notes could include:

"A mix of urban and rural, this long, narrow riding is home to a grape-growing and wine-making industry that makes up a large part of the area's manufacturing sector. The riding includes Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake and, in the west, part of city of Thorold. The borders for this riding run from Lake Ontario in north to the city limits of Niagara Falls in the south. To the west, it begins at the Welland Canal and it stretches to the Niagara River in the east. Tourism is key here, thanks to Niagara Falls and the Shaw Festival."

Is New

Check the checkbox if this is a new riding that didn't exist in the previous election.

Electors

Specify the number of eligible voters in this riding.

Candidates of Interest

Used by automated graphics systems to know how many candidates to display from this riding when presenting a riding result summary.