By the numbers: London voted in the federal election and here are the final results
CBC
The last of the remaining polls were tallied and reported for the four ridings in London, Ont., Friday.
Elections Canada said 62.7 per cent of eligible electors cast their ballot by Monday night, a drop of about 3.1 per cent compared to the 2019 election.
While the parties didn't change in London-Fanshawe, London North Centre, London West or Elgin-Middlesex-London, there were some interesting results. The Green Party only ran candidates in two ridings and saw a significant decline in support over the last election.
The People's Party of Canada (PPC) ran candidates in all four ridings, which saw a surge in support, especially in Elgin-Middlesex-London, where candidate Chelsea Hillier garnered 11.8 per cent of the vote, or 7,429 ballots.
"They didn't even have enough support to make it into the debates and that's something to be considered, that clearly their support grew over the course of the election campaign," said Laura Stephenson, professor of political science at Western University and the co-director of Consortium on Electoral Democracy.
"I do think that their anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine, like just getting to stop the restrictions kind of message, I think really resonated with people who are so tired and so many people are really frustrated with the pandemic, which isn't necessarily something we can blame on politicians, of course, although they make the policy choices."
In London-Fanshawe, PPC candidate Kyle Free received 9.2 per cent of the vote, a jump of more than seven per cent over the PPC candidate who ran in 2019.
