Voting Day for the 2021 federal election is complete, and it appears voter turnout in Canada’s 44th election was below par. Projected data from Elections Canada, shows that 16,061,329 voters cast a ballot out of a total of 27,266,297 eligible voters which equates to just 58.69%.
Canadians went to the polls and re-elected a Liberal minority federal government on September 20 after an election criticized by the majority of political parties.
With not all votes being finalized, The Canadian Press have projected that the Liberals are leading in 156 ridings, the Conservatives in 123, the Bloc Québécois in 29, the NDP in 28 and the Greens in two.
Trudeau’s Liberals are leading or elected in 156 seats which is one less than they won in 2019, and 14 short of the 170 needed for a majority in the House of Commons.
Cathay Wagantall, Conservative Party, won the Yorkton-Melville riding, and told northeastNOW she is thrilled that constituents put their trust in her once again.
“I am disappointed with the outcome federally, the fact that we are basically back to where we started in the House of Commons,” Wagantall said. “I am ready to go and we will continue to hold the Prime Minister to account.”
According to Elections Canada’s website on Wednesday, Wagantall-Conservative Party received 23,850 votes or 68.7% of the vote, Rust-NDP received 4,237 votes, Robertson-PPC 3,247 votes, Loucks-Maverick Party received 601 votes, Brooks Green Party- received 615 Votes and Ames-Sinclai-Liberal received 2,183 votes.
As of September 22nd, Elections Canada reported that the Conservatives received 5,547,220 votes or 33.8 % overall. The Liberals received 5,327,947 votes or 32.5% overall. The NDP received 2,903,446 votes or 17.7% overall. The People’s Party – PPC received 827,476 votes or 5.0% overall. The Green Party received 380,443 votes or 2.3% overall. The Maverick Party received 33,987 votes or 0.2% overall.
Conservative candidates pulled off another clean sweep of all 14 ridings in Saskatchewan during the election.
Dr. Leslyn Lewis, who visited Yorkton in an earlier effort to win the Conservative Party leadership race, won the Haldimand-Norfolk riding.
Erin O’Toole said that he and his team were disappointed by the outcome of Monday’s vote. “While we didn’t get the results we had hoped for, I am proud of our team for holding the Liberals to a minority in this pandemic election,” he said.
The Toronto Star reported that, “Several federal ridings may not have an elected member of Parliament until Thursday or even Friday, as Elections Canada continues the arduous task of verifying and counting more than 850,000 mail-in ballots.”