2015 Federal Elections: How did your Saskatchewan neighbour vote?

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Suburban voters in Regina and Saskatoon prevented an NDP-Liberal sweep in the two cities during the October federal elections, a political analyst says.

CBC News mapped the newly released electoral results for each polling station during the 2015 federal election and the results illustrate how many communities within ridings are often divided along party lines.

Political analyst, Christopher Adams, said that because of the nature of the ridings and the cities, the NDP continue to have a hard time galvanizing support throughout certain urban ridings.

"Saskatoon is divvied up three ways, so each of those three ridings have a sufficiently large suburban area that washes out that core of an urban [NDP] working class vote," he said.

Adams said that residents of suburban areas around cities tend to be Conservative Party supporters, stripping away numbers needed by the NDP to secure seats.

Adams pointed to the ridings of Saskatoon-University, Saskatoon-Grasswood and Regina-Qu'Appelle, all of which had strong uniform support in the core urban area, but ultimately elected Conservative candidates.

He said Saskatchewan is a perfect example to illustrate his belief that the NDP can only truly thrive when there are clear riding boundary divisions between urban and suburban areas.

"You need a large city for the NDP to pick up urban seats. You have to have a sufficiently large city, in which there's a critical mass or critical numbers of working class or those who are sort of the intelligentsia," Adams said, "But a sufficiently large city in which there are urban core ridings which aren't attached to suburbs or rural areas."

Adams said the trend for NDP support in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and Conservative support in southern rural areas continues.