Worst turnout registered in Canada election
15/10/2008 17:36
Canada registered the worst election turnout in the general election
yesterday, with only 58 eligible voters casting their ballots.
Just over 23
million Canadians were eligible to vote. Only a mere half of these made it to
the polling stations, according to Elections Canada statistics.
Voter turnout
in general has declined in the past two decades in Canada, from 75 percent
participation in 1988 to a historic low of 61 percent in 2004. It rebounded last
time in 2006 to just below 65 percent.
Voting in advance polls was down
slightly too, to 1,459,253 from 1,561,039 advance voters in 2006.
Xinhua
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