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Toronto’s voter turnout in Monday’s byelection improved over the 2022 mayoral election, with over 720,000 ballots cast. Olivia Chow was elected the city’s new mayor, receiving just over 37...
Jun 26, 2024 · But a special election in Toronto on June 24, where a Conservative candidate flipped a seat held by Liberals for more than three decades, shows just how much Trudeau’s party has lost its...
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Those preliminary figures suggested turnout might be lower than the last municipal vote four years ago, that at 38.3 per cent represented the worst turnout among election turnouts recorded since 1982. Brampton and Mississaugasaw less than 25 per cent of eligible voters come out to re-elect incumbents, while Toronto re-elected its mayor for a third ...
University of Windsor political scientist Lydia Miljan said municipal elections generally see lower turnout as voters have no political parties to guide their decisions. The introduction of political parties at a local level could help boost engagement, she suggested, as parties give voters "shortcuts" to understand a candidates' views. The decline...
There are also challenges in municipal elections when it comes to candidates connecting with voters, Levine said, because many are covering large wards with limited resources and little experience in politics. Levine suggested some structural changes could be looked at to boost engagement — for example, smaller wards, longer election campaign perio...
At 44 per cent, turnout was high for a June vote in the middle of Toronto, wrote Darrell Bricker, the CEO Ipsos Public Affairs, on Twitter. “This was a workday Monday in a riding that is a ...
Jun 25, 2024 · The party has not lost in the so-called Toronto Liberal fortress since that same year. ... Voter turnout in Toronto-St Paul’s was 43.5 per cent, and is particularly high for a summer byelection ...
Jun 23, 2024 · In 2021, turnout in Toronto—St. Paul’s exceeded 65 per cent. Elections Canada reported that almost 10,800 people cast a ballot in advance polls, compared with 17,401 who did so in the 2021...
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Mar 20, 2022 · Minimal effect. Most recent provincial elections suggest the pandemic has had a fairly minimal effect on turnout. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Saskatchewan had turnouts...
