Voter turnout across Canada down compared to 4 years ago

The 2019 federal election has wrapped up and now that everyone has taken a breath, we can take a step back and look at a few of the numbers from Monday night.

One of those numbers, of course, is voter turnout, which is always an important and much-talked about statistic every time an election rolls around.

In 2015, voter turnout was 68.5%, which was the highest it had been since 1993 and gave a big sense of optimism heading into the 2019 election.

Unfortunately, Canadians were unable to push voter turnout to more than 70% for the first time since 1988, instead falling down to 65.95% this time around.

Out of 27,126,166 registered voters, 17,890,264 took the time to go vote on Monday or while advanced polls were open last week.

While it is a decrease from the numbers in 2015, it’s still the second highest voter turnout in a federal election since the turn of the century.

Despite losing the election, Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party received the most of those 17,890,264 votes with 6,155,662 to their name.