Voter turnout wasn’t as high in this election as it was in 2019.
As of Tuesday evening, with 99.34 per cent of polls reported, nationally voter turnout is listed by Elections Canada as 58 per cent, not including those who registered on election day. Back in 2019, it was 67 per cent.
Locally voter turnout in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound was 61.99 per cent, not including those who registered on election day. 56,701 out of 91,472 registered electors in the riding cast their vote. The riding’s population is listed by Elections Canada as 107,679.
In 2019, the turnout was 58,464 people (65.6 per cent) of the 89,114 eligible voters.
Conservative MP Alex Ruff was re-elected in the riding with 27,993 votes or 49.4 per cent of the vote.
That’s an increase over 2019, when Ruff, who is from Tara, was a newcomer to the political scene, having just retired from Canadian Armed Forces as a colonel in the spring, and running for election in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound in the fall, following the retirement of longtime conservative MP Larry Miller.
In 2019, Ruff won 46.1 per cent of the vote in 2019 with 26,830 votes in his favour.
In Huron Bruce, with 99.63 per cent re-elected Conservative MP Ben Lobb had 30,373 or 51.4 per cent of the vote this election. That’s an increase over 2019 when Lobb garnered 48.5 per cent of the vote (29,512 votes). Lobb was first elected 13 years ago in 2008.
The 2021 voter turnout was 67.19 per cent or 59,110 of 87,978 registered electors.
In 2019, the turnout was 71.1 per cent or 61,265 out of the riding’s 86,147 voters.
In Simcoe Grey, Conservative MP Terry Dowdall was re-elected with 47.1 per cent of the vote or 33,734 votes. Voter turnout
in the riding was 59 per cent, which represents 71,683 of 121,142 registered electors in a riding with a population of 129,944.
In 2019, Dowdall won 43.5 per cent of the vote, or 32,812 votes. Voter turnout was 76,001 or 66 per cent.