Roughly 200,000 more Albertans cast their ballot during early voting during this election than the number of people who did during the 2021 election.
According to Elections Canada, 815,131 people across the province voted during the four-day advanced voting period.
In Southern Alberta, the Foothills riding saw the largest early voter turnout with 26,309 voters. In contrast, the Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner riding saw the lowest turnout during early voting with 17,144 people coming out.
The Bow River riding had 21,974 people cast their ballot over the four days, with the Lethbridge riding seeing 17,291.
On Tuesday Elections Canada announced advanced voting was up 25 per cent from the last federal election – with 7.3 million Canadians casting their ballot ahead of the general election.
Monday, April 21st was the busiest day for early voting across the country with 2,100,273 casting their ballot.
Monday, April 28th is election day, with polls across Alberta open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
