More than 68 per cent of voters came out to the polls on Monday, a full seven per cent more than in 2011 and the highest turnout since 1993.
Right here in the Central Okanagan — Similkameen — Nicola riding, where returning Conservative MP Dan Albas narrowly beat out Liberal challenger Karley Scott, the turnout was even higher than the national average. The Preliminary count by Elections Canada puts voter turnout at 71.81. Of the 86,093 eligible voters in the riding, 61,820 cast ballots. That does not include those who registered on voting day.
There were other similarities to the 1993 election. Jean Chrétien’s Liberals beat out Kim Campbell’s Progressive Conservatives, a party that had been in power for about nine years.
And the Toronto Blue Jays had just won a game against the Kansas City Royals in the American League Championship series.
