Only in three
rural constituencies did these two parties earn at least 11 % of the vote (New Democrats Mandy Melnyk in Athabasca - Sturgeon - Redwater and Bruce Hinkley in Wetaskiwin - Camrose and Liberal Pete Helfrich in Banff - Cochrane.
Not exact matches
The optimistic reference in the OP to a time when labour had any serious presence in
rural constituencies must refer to the time when mining communities still existed and I
do nt see how that might be useful today.
I know that people tend to spread out from the centres of the towns and cities, but surely that would effect Labour more than it
does the Conservatives, who seem to have strong
rural constituencies.
She
did so, she said, to better represent her Republican - leaning
rural and small - town
constituency.