Parker Donham discovered that Elections Nova Scotia has prepared a table showing the results of the most recent vote in every NS polling district projected onto the new electoral boundaries. Here is a cartogram based on the data. It shows the new (2012) ridings sized by the vote margin between the first and second place finishers and colored according to the winning party. It seems largely correct and intuitive, though the algorithm (Gastner/Newman diffusion) has some trouble with odd shapes like Digby/Clare. 36 of the 51 ridings are pretty imperfect (plotted size compared with computed size), but it's worth ignoring for the chance to see Nova Scotia as a rabbit/whale hybrid.
I used Scape Toad for the transformation and Elections NS for the shapefiles and data (via Contrarian)
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