(Elections Canada)

By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

FEDERAL ELECTION 2021

Advance polling up significantly across the country

Sep 17, 2021 | 10:35 AM

Elections Canada has released numbers showing the amount of people who voted in the upcoming election’s advance polls.

Advance voting took place Sept. 10-13.

Below are the numbers for ridings covered by rdnewsNOW and our affiliates in Rocky Mountain House, Drayton Valley and Whitecourt, as well as Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.

Red Deer-Mountain View

2021: 22,754 (1.49% increase and 25.7% of all electors)
2019: 22,419

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Red Deer-Lacombe

2021: 22,883 (3.99% increase and 24.6% of all electors)
2019: 22,004

Yellowhead

2021: 18,404 (0.62% increase and 25.3% of all electors)
2019: 18,291

Battle River-Crowfoot

2021: 16,818 (7.03% increase and 20.1% of all electors)
2019: 15,714

Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner

2021: 13,956 (16.72% increase and 17.7% of all electors)
2019: 11,957

Lethbridge

2021: 18,248 (10.05% increase and 20.5% of all electors)
2019: 16,581

According to preliminary figures, around 5.78 million people voted in advance polls across the country, an 18.46 per cent increase from 2019.

*These are estimates as some polls may not have reported yet.

More federal election coverage is here, with candidate profiles coming very soon.

A complete list of advance polling numbers is at elections.ca.