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2015 federal election: How did your Manitoba neighbours vote?

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

Conservative candidates held western ridings despite little support in Brandon, Portage la Prairie

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The two southwestern Manitoba federal ridings were won by the Conservative Party of Canada in last October's federal election, despite the fact that residents of Brandon and Portage la Prairie sided mostly with the Liberals.

CBC News mapped the newly-released electoral results for each polling station during the 2015 federal election. The results illustrate howcommunities within ridings are often divided along party lines.

Political analyst, Christopher Adams, characterizedBrandon as "an oasis in the middle of a blue [Conservative] sea."

"I'm not overly surprised, because in the by-election, the Liberals had a certain amount of support in the by-election in that part of the city," he said.

Closest race in country showed little consensus among voters

The riding of ElmwoodTranscona was the closest race in the country, with NDP candidate Daniel Blaikie winning by a mere 51 votes. The polling results show that unlike most ridings, there is no clear pattern of support within the neighbourhood. Of the 156 polling divisions, 38were won by the Liberals, 56 by the Conservatives,57by the NDP and five had a two-way tiewith signs of support for all three in nearly all areas of the riding.

The riding of Elmwood-Transcona supported the three main parties nearly equally both in terms of votes and distribution. (Jacques Marcoux)

Adams saidthat within that distribution of support, there are some consistencies such as the long-standing NDP support in the areas historically near the rail yards, and newer Conservative support in the new developments in Transcona.

Conservative hold on to outlying areas of Winnipeg

Christopher Adams, political analyst and author. (CBC)

Adams saidthat polling-level results confirms that Winnipeg outskirts are strong Conservative supporters.

"Where the Conservatives kind of held on to support in Winnipeg, is really the suburbs and the outlying areas of Winnipeg, and that's where Steven Fletcher held on to his support," saidthe author of Politics in Manitoba.

The polling results also show that incumbent NDP candidate Pat Martin only beat his Liberal rival, Robert-Falcon Ouellette in one single cluster of homes in Winnipeg Centre.