{"id":53857,"date":"2025-04-25T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=53857"},"modified":"2025-04-25T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:22:07","slug":"advance-voter-turnout-high-across-n-s-preliminary-numbers-from-elections-canada-indicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=53857","title":{"rendered":"Advance voter turnout high across N.S., preliminary numbers from Elections Canada indicate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;235&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GATINEAU, QUE.:<\/strong> Voters in Kings-Hants and Sackville-Bedford-Preston took advantage of the four days of advanced voting to cast their ballots for the federal election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While election day isn&#8217;t until Monday April 28, voters could vote ina dvance across the country at various locations and did so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the preliminary figures, <strong>7.3&nbsp;million<\/strong> electors voted at the advance polls in this general election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a <strong>25%<\/strong> increase from the <strong>5.8&nbsp;million<\/strong> electors who voted in advance in the 2021 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kings-Hants, the preliminary figured reported by Elections Canada shows that 17,365 residents voted for one of five candidates, including Incumbent Liberal Kody Blois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Sackville-Bedford-Preston, where a new face will represent the newly aligned boundary, almost 30,000 residents voted in the advance polls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total to cast their ballots were 27,620.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advance polls were open Easter weekend Friday, April 18; Saturday, April&nbsp;19; Sunday, April&nbsp;20; and Monday, April&nbsp;21, from 9&nbsp;a.m. to 9&nbsp;p.m. each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of those who voted is an estimate. Some polls may not have reported yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across N.S., more than 210,030 residents voted compared to 2021 when 160,179 voted in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;237&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;235&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;] GATINEAU, QUE.: Voters in Kings-Hants and Sackville-Bedford-Preston took advantage of the four days of advanced voting to cast their ballots for the federal election. While election day isn&#8217;t until Monday April 28, voters could vote ina dvance across the country at various locations and did so. According to the preliminary figures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8013,12,957],"tags":[146,773,832,624,1989,1281,6524],"class_list":["post-53857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vote2025","category-featured","category-news","tag-dave-carroll","tag-election","tag-elections-canada","tag-federal-election","tag-kings-hants","tag-kody-blois","tag-sackville-bedford-preston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}