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Roughly 12% of eligible Lethbridge voters cast ballots in advanced polls

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Big numbers in advanced polls in Lethbridge for this municipal election.

City officials are hoping the large numbers seen this month in early voting will spill over into voting day today as well.

Over three weeks this month, 12% of eligible voters in Lethbridge lined up to cast an early ballot. That’s more than double the 5% seen during the 2017 civic election.

Just over 9,800 total votes were cast during these advanced polls this year, over 4,600 alone just this past weekend at the ATB Centre.

Polls are open today until 8:00 pm with 14 voting locations around the city.

Here’s how the early voters turned out at the polls (numbers supplied by City of Lethbridge):

 ATB Centre total 4,642:

  • 1,834 on October 16
  • 1,364 on October 15
  • 1,444 on October 14

Exhibition Park total 3,907:

  • 1,212 on October 10
  • 1,273 on October 9
  • 1,422 on October 8

City Hall total 1,255

  • 646 on October 2
  • 609 on October 1
Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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