By The Canadian Press

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Federal Election 2019 by the numbers

Oct 24, 2019 | 7:16 AM

Some interesting numbers have been crunched by Elections Canada in the days since Monday’s federal election.

The agency says just over 17,890,000 Canadians cast a ballot, with 4.77 million of them, or 26.5 per cent, doing so in advance polls.

Voter turnout was just under 66 per cent. That number is down slightly from the last federal election. In 2015, there was a 68.3 per cent voter turnout.

Here at home, according to preliminary results from Elections Canada, 59,936 people cast a ballot in the Grande Prairie Mackenzie riding in Monday’s election.

Conservative Chris Warkentin had 50,458 votes or 84.1 per cent of the total ballots cast for the riding.

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The NDP candidate, Erin Alyward received 4,036 (6.8%) votes, Liberal Kenneth Munro 2,803 (4.7%), People’s Party Douglas Burchill 1,473 (2.5%) and Green Party’s Shelley Termuende received 1,138 (1.9%) votes in the local riding.

Voter turnout for Grande Prairie Mackenzie was 70.77 per cent. There were 84,688 registered electors (not including electors who registered on election day) and 59,936 of those registered electors voted.

(w/files from Sheena Roszell)