OTTAWA — OTTAWA - Elections Canada says more than 68 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the federal election – more than 19.5 million people.
While this election was widely expected to see increased turnout, it did not surpass the record set in March 1958, when 79.4 per cent of eligible Canadians voted.
But the nearly 68.7 per cent turnout was the best since the 1993 federal election, which saw 69.6 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot.
Elections Canada says early estimates indicate 11 million people voted at their polling station or in their long-term care facility on election day.
The agency says nearly 7.3 million Canadians voted at advance polls while 1.2 million voted by special ballot.
Elections Canada does not gather demographics data so it’s not clear which groups turned out to vote, but it says postelection surveys can show which groups faced barriers to voting and what can be done to address them in future elections.
The Liberal party ended the election with 43.7 per cent of the total vote and 169 seats, while the Conservative party secured 41.3 per cent of the vote and 144 seats.
The Bloc Quebecois and the NDP both took 6.3 per cent of the vote, and will hold 22 and seven seats, respectively.
…and the Green Party took a single seat.
I was watching This hour has 22 minutes and the host asked if a good outcome for the Greens would be more seats than leaders
The Green party is in shambles, they don’t even know who they are anymore. What the hell are “co-leaders”? It’s basically just a name for Elizabeth May’s independent status.
What the hell are “co-leaders”?
Did the searching for you. No offense intented, but a lot of people don’t know either. Other green parties of the world have more than one leader (ex. UK).
Sad that in the most consequential election in most Canadian’s lifetimes that more than 3 in 10 decided to stay home.
FPTP means that many votes have negligible impact, so it’s understandable why some don’t bother.
Terrible turnout. The worst part is knowing that the % of RW voters was probably 90+ % as usual, with the rest of us lagging way behind.
carney won by a little over 3.5% PP was still extremely close despite all the tariff and trump dic sucking by pp.
Historically, the power switch between Conservatives and Liberals roughly each decade.
A few months ago, conservatives were a shoe in for a majority government. So what happened here is nothing short of spectacular.
American style politics were staved off for at least a cycle and considering the state of the world, I welcome that.
The massive pro-PP propaganda network including META, Google, twitter, etc. boosted pro-PP messaging and ant-Carney propaganda/disinformation and it still wasn’t enough to save the CPC.
bad timing as trumps tariffs really fucked up thier messaging, from my limited news of canada, at least DOUG recognized early on enough to adapt and capitalize on this.
I wish the turnout was higher, but I get it. Before voting I checked on how close the race in my riding was. It wasn’t. The Conservative candidate was projected to win a landslide victory with 99% confidence. I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote. I did anyways thinking maybe there’ll be way more voters than normal this year. There wasn’t. The Conservative candidate won a landslide victory. Just like last election, and the one before that, and the one before that. I wasn’t even born yet the last time this riding wasn’t held by a Conservative. FPTP voting sucks.
If the parties don’t see even marginal gains in a region they won’t bother putting resources towards increasing that growth and eventually flipping a seat.
If we ever get away from first past the post they also need to see that it would benefit them to have second place.
It’s important to vote regardless of the outcome.
My city is a giant retirement community pretending to be a city, so naturally a Conservative always wins. Didn’t stop me from voting anyway, because fuck 'em. Hopefully things change when the retirees biff it.
It can’t all be retirees voting that way though. Our entire province, aside from Halifax (HRM) is dominated by retirees. Yet we went almost entirely liberal.
Older maritimers remember the reform party and the apparent disdain they had for us. Unfortunately when the pcs and reform merged, we got mostly reform out of the deal
I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote.
This is the main reason I think poll prediction media should be banned during elections. People can change things by voting, but you’d never know it from the election “advice” plastered everywhere. I believe it promotes an apathy vote where people just stay home more than anything informative or otherwise useful.
ty for going anyway.
This makes no sense… Unless you wanted conservatives to win, that number should have only made you want to go out and vote that much more.
And if you WANTED cons to win, it also should have made you want to go out and vote more because that landslide win won’t happen without people going out to make it happen.
So about 69% of the voters elected 169 liberals? Nice.
