TORONTO - The newly elected member of Parliament for a downtown Toronto riding says he will sit as an independent.

Kevin Vuong says he will not step down as Spadina-Fort York's representative in the House of Commons despite controversy surrounding his election.

He made the announcement in a tweet Saturday night.

The Liberal party dropped Vuong as a candidate just two days before Monday's election.

OTTAWA - The results of the federal election have shown a deepened divide between Canadians living in urban areas who mostly chose Liberal candidates and those living in rural areas who voted for the Conservative party, experts say.

Allan Thompson, the head of Carleton University's journalism program, said the results of Monday's election have revealed increasing polarization between rural and urban Canadians.

The division was very clear in Ontario where the Liberals picked up almost all the seats in the urban ridings and the Conservatives flipped some rural ridings and increased their lead in ridings they'd held before.

"What worries me is just the polarization, that it seems to be more and more split, more of a division where it's virtually automatic what the outcome is going to be," Thompson said.

WINNIPEG - A federal election race in west Winnipeg is so close, it is expected to head to a recount.

Conservative incumbent Marty Morantz beat out Liberal Doug Eyolfson by 24 votes in results posted to the Elections Canada website.

The margin is less than one-one thousandth of all votes cast, and the elections law requires an automatic recount, headed by a judge, in such cases.

Counting all the ballots in the riding of Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley continued until almost 48 hours after polls closed Monday night.