{"id":189545,"date":"2025-04-20T20:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=189545"},"modified":"2025-04-20T22:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:01:03","slug":"record-turnout-at-first-day-of-advance-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/record-turnout-at-first-day-of-advance-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Record turnout on first day of advance polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Election Canada posted on social media on Saturday afternoon that preliminary estimates show that nearly 2 million electors voted on the first day of advance polls last Friday, a record number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Elections Canada, voting was up&nbsp;36 per cent from the first day of advance polling in&nbsp;the  2021 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 5.8 million voters turned out for advanced polls across Canada in the last federal election in 2021, which was up more than 18 per cent from figures in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to 2024 data, the National Register of Electors contains records for almost 28&nbsp;million Canadians who are at least 18 years old and qualified to vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Parry Sound-Muskoka Riding there are 99,560 registered voters up from 86,277 in 2021. In that election, a total of 55,799 votes were cast, which represents a voter turnout of about 64.6%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advance polls remain open until Monday, April 21 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/strong> <strong>each day.<\/strong> Election day is Monday, April 28, 2025 and the <strong>polls will be open for 12 hours on elections day from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Previous election results in Parry Sound-Muskoka<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2021 election, Aitchison won by a margin of just over 26 per cent:<br>Scott Aitchison, Conservative: 26,600 (47.9 per cent)<br>Jovanie Nicoyishakiye, Liberal: 12,014 (21.6 per cent)<br>Heather Hay, NDP: 9,339 (16.8 per cent)<br>James Tole, People\u2019s Party of Canada: 4,184 (7.5 per cent)<br>Marc Mantha, Green: 3,099 (5.6 per cent)<br>Daniel Predie Jr., independent: 169 (0.3 per cent)<br>James Fawcett, National Citizens Alliance of Canada: 95 (0.2 per cent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2019 election, Aitchison won by a margin of just over 11 per cent:<br>Scott Aitchison, Conservative: 22,845 (41.79 per cent)<br>Trisha Cowie, Liberal: 16,615 (30.40 per cent)<br>Gord Miller, Green: 8,409 (15.38 per cent)<br>Tom Young, NDP: 6,417 (11.74 per cent)<br>Daniel Predie Jr, independent: 377 (0.69 per cent)<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Canada posted on social media on Saturday afternoon that preliminary estimates show that nearly 2 million electors voted on the first day of advance polls last Friday, a record [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":189603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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