Data on Advanced Voting

Question

I am interesting in getting my hands on a dataset which summarizes advance and regular voting by candidate and riding in the 2000 and/or 2004 elections. I realize these data are available for the above elections aggregated at the provincial level, and disaggregated at the riding level by poll. However, I am interested in a set which would have the results by riding with some indication of the amount of advance voting for each candidate.

Answer

My guess is you would have to contact Elections Canada for that - they do provide the number of advance polls in some of their standard tables (in 2004 election results, tables 1 and 5), but only at the province level: http://www.elections.ca