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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 per...
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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, 2023 · Experts say voter turnout at the ballot box will be critical. While advance voting numbers were strong, nothing guarantees Torontonians will show up in large numbers to elect a new mayor.
Sep 21, 2021 · Preliminary data from Canada’s pandemic election is showing a low voter turnout, sparking conversations among experts around its impact on the country’s democracy.
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Mar 20, 2022 · Voters gather at a Toronto polling station during the 2021 federal election, which saw lower turnout than the previous, pre-pandemic election. (Evan Mitsui/CBC) Four years ago, many were...
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Sep 27, 2021 · OTTAWA - Sixty-two per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in last week's federal election -- about average turnout for recent Canadian elections despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic....
