Premier Doug Ford is first Ontario party leader since 1959 to win 3 majorities

  • @[email protected]
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    1016 hours ago

    Barely an increase over the last election, roughly 1.9%. This makes it the 2nd lowest voter turnout in recent history.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 hours ago

      Because the problem in ontario is our ridings. My riding is fully ndp and has been for as long as i can remember. More people voting would have changed nothing. First past the post has ruined democracy.

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        25 hours ago

        More people voting could have actually changed everything. I clicked through probably 2 dozen ridings on elections.on.ca > unofficial results and only 2 had a margin greater than ~7k and some were under 1k.

        Mushkegowuk—James Bay has a margin of 4.

        My own riding saw the NDP incumbent also win, but only by a margin of ~1600 while being one of the higher voter turnout outs of ~51%.