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Strong voter turnout across four southern Alberta ridings

No voter apathy in southern Alberta Monday night.

Turnout at the polls was very high right across the south. Voter turnout in Lethbridge was roughly 72%. That’s compared with and up from 67% during the 2015 election.

High voter turnout in neighbouring ridings as well. Foothills saw 74% of registered voters cast a ballot in this election.

Voter turnout in Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner was 66% and in Bow River, the number came in at 69%.

The Conservatives swept all of Alberta Monday, except for one riding in Edmonton. The provincial voter turnout in this federal election was 68% and across Canada as a whole it was roughly 66%.

As for the winning candidates in the south, Conservative Martin Shields in Bow River was re-elected with the third-highest vote percentage among elected candidates across all of Alberta with 84.1% support.

In Lethbridge, Rachael Harder garnered 65.6% of the vote, John Barlow in Foothills had 82.3%, and Glen Motz in Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner was re-elected with 79.3% voter support.

You can see full unofficial results on the Elections Canada web site.

 

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