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Originally Posted by Loco101
Borders crossing in the SW are mostly city to city while the Eastern ones are between smaller places.
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Good point. SW Ontario shares a border with the most heavily populated part of Michigan, while Eastern Ontario shares a border with NYS's very thinly populated North Country.
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-politically, the NDP has had more success in the Southwest. I don't know of the NDP ever winning more than a couple of seats in Eastern Ontario both federally or provincially with the exception of the 1990 provincial election. In 1990 they won five seats but that was a fluke and the victories were very close three-way splits. In the Southwest, they will often win seats in Windsor, London and sometimes Kitchener.
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Yup, SW Ontario has a history of industrial trade unionism and class voting for the "labour party." Windsor today is an NDP stronghold.
Eastern Ontario is the weakest region for the NDP in the province.