Welcome to DemocraticSPACE

Featured across Canada in national and regional media, DemocraticSPACE is one of Canada’s leading non-partisan websites for provincial and federal election news, political commentary and analysis, and riding-by-riding discussion. Our audience includes political observers from across the political spectrum, as well as reporters, MPs and Parliament Hill staffers, and everyday voters just looking to be a bit more informed.

Among our most popular features is our seat projections. Using recent regional polling data and historical trends, as well as on-the-ground reports from our regional correspondents, we make vote projections for every riding.

In 2008, we made a “call” in 266 ridings, 258 right and 8 wrong, a rate of 97%. Of the 42 ridings that were too-close-to-call (where the 3% range in our projections overlapped for more than one candidate), the model gave a slight edge to the eventual winner about two-thirds of the time. Factoring both called and too-close-to-call ridings, the model correctly projected 283 ridings, or 92%.

DemocraticSPACE was founded by Gregory D. Morrow, a former MIT faculty member in Urban Studies & Planning, currently completing his PhD at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. His research operates at the intersection of politics and urbanism. Greg was previously the National Campaign Chair of the Green Party of Canada.