Recent events in multiple advanced democracies have led to a renewed interest about one of the classic political cleavages: the rural-urban divide. The acceleration of the processes linked to globalization has accentuated a gap between the countryside and the city that has spread beyond demographic and economic aspects. The relevant question is whether this contrast tallies with a division in the political attitudes of their respective dwellers. The attention devoted to this topic is still scarce and the first studies have focused on examining differences in satisfaction with democracy between urban and rural habitats. Rural areas have often been labelled by the literature as “left-behind” zones or “places that don’t matter”; probably this could explain the prominent anti-establishment reactions that have emerged from the rural world and their lower levels of satisfaction with democracy. In this paper we ask whether these processes can be related to differences in political efficacy between rural and urban dwellers. Using data from rounds 8-9 of the European Social Survey we examine whether residents in rural areas feel less politically efficacious. Moreover, we assess whether the political efficacy gap between urban and rural areas is smaller in those countries with higher levels of electoral malapportionment that leads to an overrepresentation of rural areas in national parliaments.