P.E.I. tops the country with highest voter turnout in federal election
CBC
Prince Edward Island once again leads the country for voter turnout in Canada's 45th general election.
A total of 97,046 of the 123,822 registered voters on the Island participated — a voter turnout of 78.38 per cent, according to preliminary results from Elections Canada as of Tuesday evening. Preliminary numbers are unofficial and do not yet include voters who registered on election day.
That's up from the roughly 73 per cent in the 2021 federal election.
P.E.I. has traditionally seen strong voter participation in both federal and provincial elections.
In the rest of Atlantic Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia also reported high voter turnout at 72.24 and 72.25 per cent respectively.
Newfoundland and Labrador recorded the lowest turnout in the region with 65.75 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots.
At the national level, Elections Canada's preliminary estimates indicate that 19,597,674 Canadians cast a ballot. That's a voter turnout of about 68.7 per cent — a jump of about six percentage points compared to 2021, and the highest it's been since 1993.
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