Demographic data on Canada’s April 2025 election is now available, and the results are interesting. The Canada Projections Twitter account broke down voting patterns by factors including age, language spoken at home, gender, and education level – but the factor I am highlighting is the breakdown of voting patterns by race. First, let us define the terms. “White” is straightforward enough, as is “Indigenous”. “Visible Minority” is the federal government’s strange term for all non-white people who are not Indigenous (in other words, non-white Canadians of immigrant stock). Now, first note that the “Indigenous” category favoured the Conservatives by a wide margin – perhaps an unexpected pattern. At a brief glance, you may notice that the “Visible Minority” category favours the Liberals, but this is somewhat deceptive. Look closely, and you will see that white Canadians voted Conservative (blue square) at a rate of 41.01%, while visible minorities voted Conservative at a rate of …
(And I'm not a Canadian citizen, even though I've lived here since 2003. I'm still an American citizen with "landed status" here. Still a proud American.