Saskatchewan: how did your neighbours vote in the 2011 federal election?
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The New Democratic Party dominated urban areas. The Liberal Party was nearly non-existent in rural communities. The Conservative Party had broad support across the province.
These are the key findings of a CBC News analysis of the voting results of each of the 2,533 voting stations across Saskatchewan during the 2011 federal election.
Zoom in and click to find out which party your neighbourhood supported. Blue represents polls won by the Conservatives in 2011. Orange represents polls won by the NDP. Red represents areas where Liberals dominated. Purple means a tie.
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According to Curtis Brown, vice-president of Winnipeg-based Probe Research, the Liberals have little hope of surpassing their previous performance.
"In the rural farming areas, the Liberal Party is pretty much a non-factor," Brown said.
Rural Saskatchewan a desert for Liberals
According to the Elections Canada data, the only rural polling station won by the Liberal party was on Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation, in the Wascana riding.
"Of course the anomaly is Wascana (now called Regina–Wascana). That area is Liberal and it's sort of the one red area that should be demographically a Tory seat, but Ralph Goodale has been the MP there for year and years, due to his personal popularity," Brown said.
In 2013, Canada's electoral boundaries commissions oversaw a redrawing of Canada's electoral districts. For Saskatchewan, the number of seats remains 14, however the lines have been radically redrawn so that Regina and Saskatoon have fewer urban-rural ridings and more all-urban ridings.
NDP might have won 2 seats
According to Elections Canada, had the redistributed ridings been used in 2011, the NDP would have won in two all-urban ridings: Regina–Lewvan and Saskatoon West.
"The (NDP) would get such a large share of the vote and never win any seats because of the way they were drawn. Now that there's more of an urban-rural difference, I think the NDP have a much better chance," Curtis Brown said.
As for the Conservative party, its support is evenly spread throughout the province, with 47 per cent of its polling station victories coming from rural areas and 53 per cent from urban neighbourhoods.
(Note: Map does not take into account mobile stations or mail-in ballot results.)
