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Provincial/Territorial Ridings

Geocodio can add Provincial/Territorial Ridings (Canadian Legislative Districts) to addresses or latitude/longitude coordinates.

You can download an example of the results when you add Provincial/Territorial Ridings to a list of addresses or coordinates here.

Looking for federal ridings? See Federal Electoral Districts.

Your spreadsheet needs to have one of the following address/coordinate heading formats in order to add ridings:

  • Complete address (in one column or separate columns, as long as it's consistent for the entire spreadsheet):

    • Street address + city + province + postal code + Country (with "Canada" included exactly and not abbreviated)
  • We can also add ridings for incomplete addresses, such as:

    • Street address + city + province + Country (with "Canada" included exactly and not abbreviated)
    • Street address + postal code + Country (with "Canada" included exactly and not abbreviated)

Combinations of the above will work (i.e., some addresses can be missing one of the pieces) and the ridings will still be added, as long as the heading format is consistent.

  • Coordinates

    • Latitude/longitude in one column
    • Latitude/longitude in separate columns (with headers)

We encourage you to include the full postal code in your input if you have it, as this will increase the accuracy of results. (Please note that the results will only show the first three digits of the postal code, as the full postal code is proprietary to Canada Post.)

Data returned for ridings

  • OCD-ID (such as ocd-division/country:ca/ed:59003-2013)

  • English riding name

  • French riding name

  • Riding source

    Note: Districts for Nunavut are not supported due to their unique governance model.

Add ridings to addresses or coordinates via API

If you'd prefer to use an API instead, see our technical documentation here.

Cost

Requests are billed as geocode + riding info (i.e., two lookups). For example, if you have 100 addresses that you want ridings for, that would count as 200 lookups.

You can calculate how much this will cost you and how long it will take here. Note that prices are in USD.

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