Voter turnout increased in federal ridings around Bruce and Grey counties, and nationally in the 2025 election.
Preliminary turnout figures from Elections Canada — with 99.1 per cent of polls reporting nationwide — show more than 67 per cent of eligible Canadians cast a ballot in this election, which saw Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals win the most seats in the House of Commons.
More than 19.1-million votes have been counted. The 67.1 per cent voter turnout number is up from the 2021 federal election, when 62.6 per cent of eligible Canadians filled out ballots.
Voter turnout also increased in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, Huron-Bruce and Simcoe-Grey — three area ridings where the Conservative incumbents Alex Ruff, Ben Lobb and Terry Dowdall were re-elected as Members of Parliament.
In Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, there were 67,137 people who voted — a turnout number of just over 70 per cent. That’s up from 64.3 per cent in 2021.
More than 69,100 votes have been counted in Huron-Bruce — with one poll left to report — and turnout increased to 75.1 per cent. It was 70 per cent in the last federal election.
And in Simcoe-Grey, just under 67,000 ballots counted and a 70.3 per cent voter turnout — a sizeable jump from the 63.6 per cent of eligible electors who voted in 2021.
