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Voters advance
A larger than ever advance poll turnout suggests overall voter
participation may be up for this year’s federal election.

826,895
Ridings with the Ridings with the largest slumps
largest jumps in in advance poll turnout

34.5%
advance poll turnout 1 Thornhill -36%
2 Saskatoon-Humboldt -32%
1 Edmonton Centre +490%

565,897
3 Vancouver Island North -30%
2 Leeds-Grenville +320% 4 Vegreville-Wainwright -28% Increased in number of voters at

603,578
3 Ottawa-Orleans +300% 5 Nunavut -24% advanced polls compared to 2008

1,528,780
4 West Vancouver-Sunshine +248% 6 Red Deer -22%
Coast-Sea to Sky Country 7 Mount Royal -16%
5 Oak Ridges-Markham +210% 8 Crowfoot -15%
9 Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon -15%

448,466
6 Ajax-Pickering +210%
10 Carleton-Mississippi Mills -11% number of advanced voters in 2008

2,056,001
7 Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca +200% 5
8
8 Peace River +188%
1
3
9 Halton +159% 64
7 49
10 8
2 number of advanced voters in 2011
10 Vancouver South +158%
243,247

10 3 7

Advance poll turnout

2
1 56
177,915

9
149,407

66,053
70,361
2008 2011 % change

52,220
55,871
44,779
38,933
110,226

37,782
36,186

13,208

17,277
10,296
10,196
1,560
1,409
1,288
1,192
381

158

Nunavut N.W.T. Yukon B.C. Alta. Sask. Man. Ont. Que. N.B. N.S. P.E.I. N.L.

up up up up up up up up up up up up
30% 35% 26% 37% 54% 15% 36% 37% 8% -59%
68% 75% 11%

9.4%
8,834,987

2008 voter turnout

69%
Drop in voter
turnout in
Eligible Total 5,954,763 Newfoundland

47.4%
voters ballots from 2000–2008,
P.E.I had the highest the highest
voter turnout change in Canada
Nunavut had the
lowest voter turnout 2,996,864
in 2008 2,433,695

715,291 835,401 727,875

590,984 410,411
108,211
17,089 28,787 23,281
8,092 13,733 14,721 1,799,892 1,274,992 419,600 468,743 5,177,150 3,671,728 371,586 438,551 74,636 195,669
Nunavut N.W.T. Yukon B.C. Alta. Sask. Man. Ont. Que. N.B. N.S. P.E.I. N.L.
Sources: Elections Canada; talkpos.wordpress.com SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY MEGAN DINNER/QMI AGENCY