Demographic Divides in Canadian Voting, 1945–2023

The Canadian Vote Intention Dataset

Bibliographic Data

ID6239744
AuthorsJ Lucas (0000-0002-3498-7267, University of Calgary), Tyler Romualdi (0009-0005-3876-5185, Western University, corresponding author), David A Armstrong (0000-0002-9358-2489, Western University), Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Queen's University), Elizabeth Goodyear‐grant (0000-0003-0329-8060, Queen's University)
Year2025
Volume58
Issue3
Pages666-680
Publication date2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423925000241
OpenAlexW4411157836
LanguageEN
References cited46

This research note introduces the Canadian Vote Intention Dataset, a new, integrated, publicly available database of nearly eight decades of public opinion surveys from Gallup, Environics, Pollara, the Canadian Election Study and the Consortium on Electoral Democracy. The dataset contains 1,019,639 responses on Canadians’ federal vote intention as well as a suite of demographic and geographic variables, including age, gender, religion, language, education, union membership, occupation, community size, province and region. We describe the dataset and custom survey weights, as well as the R package and interactive online application we developed to accompany the dataset. We then demonstrate the dataset’s utility through new analyses of the long-term evolution of gender, education and community size gaps in Canadian party support from 1945 to 2022

Demographic economics · Economics · Group voting ticket · Political science · Politics · Spoilt vote · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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