More than 64 per cent of registered voters in Simcoe-Grey voted in this election.
According to Elections Canada, there were 74,226 voters who turned out this election out of a potential 115,193 registered voters in the riding. The population of the riding is 129,944.
That means the voter turnout for Simcoe-Grey was 64.44 per cent, not including electors who registered on election day.
WIth 100 per cent of polls reported, Conservative Terry Dowdall won the riding with 32,444 votes – or 43.7 per cent of the Simcoe-Grey ballots.
Liberal Lorne Kenney finished second with 23,372 votes (31.5 per cent), followed by the Green Party’s Sherri Jackson with 8,423 (11.3 per cent) and the NDP Party’s Ilona Matthews with 8,320 votes (11.2 per cent). Richard Sommer of the People’s Party of Canada won 1,386 votes, and Tony D’Angelo of the Veteran’s Coalition Party won 281 votes.
In the last federal election (2015) about 68 per cent of eligible voters in Simcoe-Grey voted. At that time, there were 97,145 eligible voters, and 65,972 of them voted.
Conservative Kellie Leitch won the riding with 30,612 votes (46.6 per cent) and Liberal Mike MacEachern came in second with 25,352 votes (38.6 per cent of the vote).
NDP candidate David Matthews – husband to this year’s NDP candidate Ilona Matthews – finished with 6,332 votes, and JoAnne Fleming earned 2,923 votes for the Green Party.
Overall, both the Greens and NDP increased their share of the votes from 2015 to 2019 in Simcoe-Grey. The NDP won 9.6 per cent in 2015, and 11.2 percent this year. The Greens went from 4.4 per cent in 2015 to third place with 11.3 per cent this year, officially showing the largest percentage growth in Simcoe-Grey between the two elections.
Nationally, voter turnout fell just below 2015 levels (68.3 per cent) – which were the highest since 1993 – with 65.95 per cent of registered voters casting a ballot during this election. That translates to 17.89 million votes out of a possible 27.12 million. These numbers, reported by Elections Canada, do not include those who registered to vote on election day.
The Conservative Party won 6.15 million votes, and 121 seats in yesterday’s election, meaning the Conservatives won the popular vote, even though the Liberal Party won more seats and will form a minority government.
The Liberal Party won 5.9 million votes and 157 seats.
The Bloc Québécois won 1.4 million votes and 32 seats. The Green Party won 1.16 million votes and three seats. The NDP won 2.84 million votes and 24 seats.
