Quebec votes: Advanced voting almost doubles compared with last election
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The percentage of Quebec voters who have cast an early ballot has almost doubled compared with the last election, the province's elections office said Monday.
The percentage of Quebec voters who have cast an early ballot has almost doubled compared with the last election, the province’s elections office said Monday.
About 13 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots on Sunday –the first of two advanced polling days– up from about seven per cent after the first polling day in the 2018 election, according to Elections Quebec.
Seven of the 10 ridings that reported the highest turnouts on Sunday were in the greater Quebec City area –where the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec is facing a challenge from the Conservatives led by Eric Duhaime.
The high turnout in the region bodes well for the Conservatives because people who are motivated to vote are often people who want a change in government, Duhaime told reporters Monday in the Montreal suburb of Laval.
“When we see there’s a lot of people participating, we think it’s a good sign,” Duhaime said.
“We do believe more people participating means people are looking for a change.”
But the Tory leader said that despite the high polling numbers –the Conservatives are polling at between 16 and 19 per cent depending on the survey –his party isn’t assured of winning a single seat in the 125-seat legislature because of the distribution of the vote and the fact there is a tight, four-way race between the four main opposition parties.
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