Analysis of Financial Trends of Regulated Federal Political Entities, 2000–2014

Appendix B: The Number of Regulated Federal Political Entities, 2004–2014

Conservative:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
EDAs	277	288	301	306	306	307	306	305	308	307	429
Candidates	308	1	310	3	316	4	3	307	4	5	6
Nomination Contestants	577	327	134	177	30	40	21	40	7	4	262
Leadership Contestants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	1,163	617	746	487	653	352	331	653	320	317	698

Liberal:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
EDAs	319	306	305	306	305	304	303	306	307	307	605
Candidates	308	1	310	3	315	4	3	308	4	5	6
Nomination Contestants	462	264	40	183	35	130	28	38	9	9	345
Leadership Contestants	0	0	11	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	0
Total	1,090	572	667	493	656	442	335	653	321	331	957

NDP:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
EDAs	265	283	295	301	301	303	303	299	308	307	330
Candidates	308	1	310	3	316	4	3	308	4	5	6
Nomination Contestants	253	216	8	113	52	103	52	181	7	9	132
Leadership Contestants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0
Total	827	501	614	418	670	411	359	789	329	322	469

Bloc:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
EDAs	48	55	56	58	58	57	55	52	53	49	48
Candidates	75	0	76	3	77	2	0	75	0	1	0
Nomination Contestants	84	82	15	27	13	42	3	9	0	0	0
Leadership Contestants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2
Total	208	138	148	89	149	102	59	140	54	51	51

Green:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
EDAs	73	92	120	166	186	204	204	181	185	173	158
Candidates	308	1	309	3	311	4	3	304	4	4	5
Nomination Contestants	46	44	7	121	50	35	13	6	2	3	36
Leadership Contestants	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	431	138	440	291	548	244	221	492	192	181	200

Other Parties:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	8	10	10	11	14	14	16	14	13	14	12
EDAs	31	25	39	40	39	36	38	39	51	52	51
Candidates	379	1	335	9	312	5	8	286	13	10	9
Nomination Contestants	0	13	4	11	5	5	0	2	0	0	1
Leadership Contestants	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	418	49	388	71	378	60	62	341	77	76	74

Total:
	2004 ¹	2005 ²	2006 ³	2007 ²	2008 ³	2009 ²	2010 ²	2011 ¹	2012 ²	2013 ²	2014 ⁴
Party	13	15	15	16	19	19	21	19	18	19	17
EDAs	1,013	1,049	1,116	1,177	1,195	1,211	1,209	1,182	1,212	1,195	1,621
Candidates	1,686	5	1,650	24	1,647	23	20	1,588	29	30	32
Nomination Contestants	1,422	946	208	632	185	355	117	276	25	25	776
Leadership Contestants	3	0	14	0	8	3	0	3	9	9	3
Total	4,137	2,015	3,003	1,849	3,054	1,611	1,367	3,068	1,293	1,278	2,449

1 – Calendar year included a general election only.

2 – Calendar year included by-elections only.

3 – Calendar year included a general election and by-elections.

4 – Calendar year included by-elections only and was a transitional year between 2003 and 2013 representation order.