1.51 Election Results The 2006 election was EX0151 somewhat an interesting race, in which the Conservative Party of Canada secured the largest number of House of Commons seats with respect to others. The table below lists the distribution of House of Commons seats following the 39th general election in Canada 2006.

a. By just looking at the table for Conservatives, what shape do you think the data distribution for seats by province/territory will have?

b. Draw a relative frequency histogram to describe the distribution of seats for Conservatives in all provinces/territories.

c. Did the histogram in part b confirm your guess in part a? Are there any outliers? How can you explain them?

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All Party of Seats Canada Party of Bloc Conservative Liberal New Democratic Inde- Canada Qubcois Party pendent Canada 308 124 103 51 29 1 Newfoundland & 7 3 4 0 0 D Labrador PEI 4 0 0 0 Nova Scotia 11 3 6 0 2 0 New Brunswick 10 3 6 0 1 0 Quebec 75 10 13 51 0 1 Ontario 106 40 54 0 12 0 Manitoba 14 B 3 0 3 0 Saskatchewan 14 12 2 0 D 0 Alberta 28 28 0 0 0 0 British Columbia 36 17 Yukon 1 0 Northwest 0 910 9 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 DO 0 0 Territories Nunavut 0 1 0 0 0 Source: Electoral Results by Party http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Compilations/ ElectionsAndRidings/ResultsParty.aspxLibrary of Parliament / Bibliotheque du Parlement. Parliament of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, 2012