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Voter turnout in Canada
Voter turnout is the percentage of registered voters who cast a ballot in an election. The following presents voter turnout figures for Canada's general elections as compiled by Elections Canada. It is important to differentiate between the percentage of eligible voters and the percentage of voters relative to the entire population (see chart below). For example, in 1867, 73.1% of eligible voters voted, which represented only 8.3% of the total population. When women got the vote in 1918, 67.7% of eligible voters voted, which represented 35.8% of the total population, a huge jump from previous elections. The average eligible voter turnout for Canada's general elections since 1867 has been 70.5% The highest voter turnouts were in 1958, 1962, and 1963, when eligible voter turnout was 79% and over, roughly 45% the total population. The lowest voter turnout on record was in 2008, when eligible voter turnout fell to only 58.8% (44.1% of the total population). Eligible voter turnout in the...
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