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, THE OSHAWA TIMES, 'Wednesdey, April 17, 1963 Rural-Urban Gap Widens In Voting By ARCH MacKENZIE OTTAWA (CP)--The pro- nounced political cleavage be- tween town and country pro- duced by results of the 1962 general election widened in the April 8 balloting. The Liberals strengthened their grasp on the urban vote while the voting base of the Progressive Conservatives be- came even more solidly en- trenched in rural This adds spice to the over- due redistribution of Canada's 263 electoral ridings. The new Parliament--made up of 130 Liberals, 94 Conservatives, 24 Social Crediters and 17 New Democratic Party MPs--es ex- pected to give priority to this task. Two _ constituencies -- Queens in Prince Edward Is- land and Halifax--have two members each. Put simply, it now takes fewer rural votes to elect a member of Parliament than it does in the cities or suburbs, especially after the movement from country to city in the last 10 years, One example is that there were 162,277 names on the voters' list in York-Scarborough in the Toronto area for the April 8 election compared with 5,637 in Iles-de-la-Madeleine in Quebec. On the basis of the designa- tion of just under 50,000 polling divisions across the country as urban or rural, this picture emerges: Forty-four ridings are wholly rural and another 75 are mainly so. There are 62 completely urban in nature and 43 deci- sively so. MOST ARE RURAL Thus, rural votes predominate in 119 constituencies and urban ones in 105, with the remaining 39 of mixed nature. On April 8, the Liberals gained in all three categories and the Conservatives fell off. The Liberals won 72 of the 105 urban ridings against 53 a year earlier and the Conserva- me fell to 20 urban seats from 33. Rurally, the Liberals gained eight seats for a total of 37 against the Conservative total of 64, five less than in 1962. In the mixed category the Liberals won 22, or five more, and the Conservatives dropped four for a total of 10 . To a lesser extent, the same pattern was reflected in the sources of support for Social Credit and NDP. SOCREDS HAVE FIVE Social Credit, with 20 of their 24 seats in Quebec, now have only five in urban ridings and 14 in the country. The NDP, with 17 seats of which nine are in British Columbia, has 10 city seats and five rural. The tag "rural" is a mis- nomer in some ridings insofar as it indicates a farming econ- omy. Northern Ontario areas like Port Arthur or Skeena in B.C., for example, are classed as rural when they are predom- {nantly industrial through min- ing, forestry, railroading or fishing and trapping. But the rural-urban classifi- cation holds particular weight in two areas where the Liberals had sought to make some in: roads. One is the 48-seat block com- prising the three prairie prov- inces, where the party actually THE FAMOUS SAMSONITE FOLDING TABLE With Purchases Totalling % 5 48 $15.00 Worth of Cash Register Tapes PLASTIC SURFACE -- TUBULAR STEEL LEGS SOLD ELSEWHERE AT $9.50 YOU GET STAMPS TOO! SPECIAL! LOBLAWS KITCHEN PRIDE RAISIN PIE price 45¢ @ FROZEN FOODS ® SPECIAL! MAMMA MIA -- 4's PARTY PIZZA 51: SPECIAL! SNOWCROP Frozen Peas 4.2%... 75 AVAILABLE, IN MOST MARKETS 12-02, PKG, lost its only rural spokesman with the defeat of Hazen Argue in Saskatchewan's Assiniboia| constituency. Pro-Nuclear | Policy Still Maintained © OTTAWA (CP)--One of the bizarre sidelights of the election campaign was the continued propagation of a pro-nuclear policy through the defence de- partment after the resignation of defence minister Harkness. Some time before he resigned from the cabinet Feb. 3 because of "irreconcilable" differences with Prime Minister Diefen- baker on the nuclear issue, Mr. Harkness authorized the use of RCAF aircraft to fly a number of groups to Colorado Springs, Colo., for briefings by senior officers of North American Air Defence Command. These briefings include the military viewpoint on the neces- sity for defensive nuclear war- heads for the 56 Bomarc anti- aircraft missiles and 64 Voodoo jet interceptors in Canada. The group visits to NORAD, for what in effect were. pro- nuclear briefings, continued after Mr. Harkness resigned and Hon. Gordon Churchill as- sumed the defence portfolio Feb. 11. Informants said Tuesday Mr. Churchill was busy with his per- sonal election campaign in Win- nipeg and a ly was not aware of the trips to NORAD authorized by his predecessor. They also said Mr. Harkness' decision authorizing the trips Was not referred back to the SPECIAL! 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