Following on from this:

Ridings represented by Liberal and NDP MPs are getting more than their fair share of a $2-billion federal infrastructure fund, suggests a new analysis by Canwest News Service.

Canwest's analysis of 310 infrastructure projects receiving funds from the Knowledge Infrastructure Program follows separate analyses by other news organizations of other infrastructure programs published last week that showed ridings held by Conservative MPs were receiving a disproportionately higher share.

But the analysis of the Knowledge Infrastructure Program grants shows that, nationally, ridings held by NDP MPs are getting more than twice what they would have got if the money was distributed based strictly on the number of seats each party holds.

In Quebec, ridings held by Liberals are also getting more than twice their fair share of KIP funds, while Conservative ridings have, so far, received just 1% of the nearly $250-million the federal government has given to colleges and universities in that province.

One of my tweeps, Massimo Bergamini, suggests that if you just looked at money given to colleges, you might get different results. OK -- it's a time-consuming process but I'll try to dig that out (in the meantime -- any of you can do by looking at my raw data and doing it yourself). But in the meantime, consider this -- here are the top 10 universities in the country. Together, they received about $543 million or one-quarter of the entire $2 billion KIP plan.

Three universities are in CPC ridings; three are in Liberal ridings; two are in NDP ridings, one is a BQ riding and 1 -- the University of Toronto, received money for three campuses, in NDP, Liberal, and CPC territories. Based on that sample, I'm not so sure excluding universities would show a much different trend: