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Originally Posted by Calgarian
They said 58% of eligible voters turned out. I'm sure it would have been higher if the lines weren't as long and they didn't run out of ballots in places.
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2017 - 58.1% (total votes 387,306)
2013 - 39.3% (total votes 262,577)
2010 - 53% (total votes ~353,000)
2007 - 33% (total votes ~205,000)
2004 - 18% (total votes 115,549)
1951 - 37.3% (total votes 87,550)
Voting challenges over the last two hours aside, relatively speaking 2017 was pretty impressive. Need to give credit for the improvements in advanced polling also.
One thing that seems odd to me is that the eligible votes list is not increasing with the population.