According to Elections Canada, the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver — the country’s three biggest cities — account for 116 of Canada’s 338 ridings. And the results in those ridings help to tell the story of both the Liberal victory and a fundamental split in federal politics.
Of those 116 ridings, the Liberals won 86 — more than half of their national total. The Conservatives won just eight.
That Liberal strength in cities is part of an urban-rural split that now defines the electoral map in Canada. New research suggests the urban-rural divide between the Liberal and Conservative parties has never been wider.
How many in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto are government employees (at all levels, municipal, provincial and federal), and how many work for the shadow government of publicly funded NGO’s, commissions etc?
Those numbers may help explain the “divide.”
