How did your Northern neighbour vote in 2011?

A CBC News analysis of the voting results of each of the 231 voting stations across Canada's North during the 2011 federal election reveals regional differences in vote distributions within the territories. (The map does not take into account mobile station or mail-in ballot results.)

• See the 2011 voting results map

Yukon

Conservative Ryan Leef narrowly won Yukon's seat in 2011, with 33.8 per cent of the vote compared to Liberal Larry Bagnell's 32.9.

Yukon's map of the 2011 vote is the most colourful of the three territories.

"Yukon appears to be a real mishmash, and I think that's reflective of the fact that all three parties have held that seat over the last 15 years," says Curtis Brown, vice-president of Winnipeg-based Probe Research.

Liberal support was strongest in Whitehorse, with the Grits winning 60 per cent of urban polling stations.

There was also strong support for the Green Party in Yukon, where the party captured 18.9 per cent of total votes — a figure much higher than the 7.7 per cent of votes achieved by the party in British Columbia, where the party leader, Elizabeth May, sits as the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands.

The Green Party won three polls in and around Whitehorse. Candidate John Streicker was later elected to Whitehorse city council in 2012.

The NDP won the Pelly Crossing, Carmacks, Upper Liard, Ross River and Carcross polls.

N.W.T.

In 2011, N.W.T. re-elected NDP Candidate Dennis Bevington. His party dominated at polling stations in the south of the territory, with the northern polls voting mostly Liberal or Conservative, and the Tlicho communities voting strongly Liberal.

The NDP won all the polls in Yellowknife with the exception of two neighbourhoods that went to the Conservatives — one of which was Conservative candidate Sandy Lee's former territorial constituency of Range Lake.

Nunavut

Nunavut was a nearly solid mass of Conservative blue, with Leona Aglukkaq's support strongest in Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Coral Harbour, communities where more than 80 per cent of the votes went to the Conservatives.

There were two communities that bucked the trend: Clyde River and Grise Fiord both went for the Liberals' Paul Okalik. 

Curtis Brown says more than in any other part of Canada, voter turnout is the key to victory in the North.

"In any of the northern seats, the turnouts tend to be lower and really it's all about getting out the vote, which is difficult to do since candidates have to cover such huge distances."

Correction

An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Iqaluit voted for the Liberals in 2011. In fact, one Iqaluit polling station went to the Liberals while a second went to the Conservatives, with the Conservatives winning the capital with 36 per cent of the vote to the Liberal's 33 per cent.