2011 Canadian election maps

[ottermax]

It really gives you some perspective when you see polls in downtown areas of Canadian cities that vote for the Conservative party and compare that to similar places in America. Seattle never has any precincts voting for the Republicans, nor do most other cities.... of course we don't have the crazy vote splitting that exists in Canada.

I wonder if this is because Canada is just more urban so conservative people are more likely to live in central urban areas, or if its purely because Canada's political system is so different from the US. I'm sure it's mostly the second cause, because Canada's politics are so much more related to income than in America. It seems like the NDP will have a difficult time winning old Liberal territory in some of these areas because it is so dependent on a lower income base (like North York, Peel, Vancouver, Calgary)