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Low Voter Turnout In Provincial Election

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Encouraging advance poll results did not carry over to yesterday’s vote as turnout was extremely low.

It was only 28.66 per cent in Kiiwetinoong, however the riding had staffing issues that resulted in voting hiccups and polls being open for an extra two hours.

Voter turnout in Kenora-Rainy River was only 38 per cent.

It was almost 43 per cent in Thunder Bay-Atikokan as well as Thunder Bay-Superior North.

Province-wide just over 43 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot.

That is the lowest since 2011.

(With files from Randy Thoms)

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Voter Turnout Down This Election

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There was a slight drop in voter turnout for Monday night’s federal election across Canada.

Elections Canada says about 66% of eligible voters cast ballots.

That’s about 2.5% lower than in 2015.

Here in the Kenora riding voter turnout was 59.76%, a number that’s down significantly from the 72% turnout in 2015, but about on par with what the riding saw in 2011.

A total of 17,890,264 people cast ballots across the country, including 27,304 regionally.