How does the BBC get our Canadian election outcomes knowledge?revealed at 00:25 British Summer season Time 29 April
Alison Benjamin
Knowledge scientist, BBC Confirm, reporting from Toronto
As we wait to see which MPs Canadians have chosen to kind their subsequent authorities, we’ll be monitoring and analysing the votes that make up these outcomes.
The BBC will take outcomes knowledge from Elections Canada, the impartial company which organises elections.
Canada is huge nation, spanning six time zones. This implies polls shut at completely different occasions throughout the nation, however as soon as they do Elections Canada will begin posting the preliminary outcomes on its web site.
There are 343 seats – or ridings – within the Canadian Home of Commons, and we’ll be reporting on and visualising the outcomes as they arrive in.
We’re anticipating the primary outcomes to return from Newfoundland and Labrador on the East Coast, the place polls have simply closed at 20:30 native time (00:00 BST), and the final outcomes from British Columbia on the West Coast the place the final polls will shut three hours later.
The BBC will discuss with outcomes we get from Elections Canada as “main” – which means they’re preliminary figures.
These outcomes will embrace all seats the place counting is beneath manner, however they make no distinction between seats the place a celebration is main and the place a celebration is projected to win.
The place the BBC experiences on seat calls from different media shops, we’ll use the time period “projected” – and we’ll present an attribution for the supply of that data.
Within the days following the election, Elections Canada will publish validated outcomes to its web site.
We’ll be bringing you all the info as we get it, so keep on with us.
