{"id":63277,"date":"2015-10-20T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63277"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:25:57","slug":"turnout-in-federal-election-hits-68-5-per-cent-largest-since-1993-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/20\/turnout-in-federal-election-hits-68-5-per-cent-largest-since-1993-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnout in federal election hits 68.5 per cent, largest since 1993 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8817\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/elections-canada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8817\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/elections-canada.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/elections-canada.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/elections-canada-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Elections Canada says 68.5 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in Monday&#8217;s federal election, the largest turnout of voters in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 25.6 million people registered to vote, close to 17.6 million turned up at polls across the country in an election that handed the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau a majority victory.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of turnout hasn&#8217;t been seen since the 1993 election, a campaign that also resulted in a sweeping Liberal win under the stewardship of Jean Chretien.<\/p>\n<p>The swell in numbers was partly due to the 3.6 million Canadians who cast ballots during the four-day advance polling period on the Thanksgiving long weekend &#8212; an increase of 71 per cent over the 2011 election, when only three days of advance polls were held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Elections Canada says 68.5 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in Monday&#8217;s federal election, the largest turnout &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}