Voter turnout Ontario 2022

Thursday's vote may have seen the lowest turnout since Confederation. With some final polls still being counted, early data from Elections Ontario suggests ...

That means the NDP vote was significantly more efficient and concentrated, and the Liberal share diluted over more ridings. The early data may be surprising for a lot of those who did cast a ballot this time around. But that vote share was more efficient, with the PCs picking up 83 seats, seven more than last time. Many others said that, whatever their feelings, they weren't strong enough to cast a vote against the party. It looks to be the lowest turnout by a considerable margin, too. It's also down considerably from 2018, which saw a final turnout of about 57 per cent.

Elections Ontario tabulated voter turnout at 43 per cent, by some margin the lowest turnout yet for an Ontario election.

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According to Elections Ontario, 39,275 out of 90,698 registered voters in Windsor West cast a ballot in the 2018 provincial election. That's 43 per cent — the ...

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There was little discussion during this week's Ontario election (which saw Premier Doug Ford win a second majority government) of the long-term fiscal ...

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Ontario saw a significantly higher voter turnout in the 2018 election, with 57 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot.

However, Ford and the PCs received support from only 18 per cent of the more than 10 million eligible voters in the province. Prior to Thursday night’s vote, campaign sources told CityNews they expected around a 45 per cent voter turnout this time around. More than a million Ontarians voted during the advance polling period, a significant increase from the previous election in 2018.

The majority of eligible voters in Ontario did not cast a ballot in Thursday's election, leading to the worst turnout in the province's history as the...

“The economy and jobs ... those things may be less salient for younger voters compared to older voters.” “The major issues were largely affordability, those kinds of things, and all the parties agreed on that,” Anderson said. “It was sort of a clear conservative lead all the way through,” he said.