Percentage-wise Provincial Turnout Beats National Turnout
If you think you saw about the same number of people out voting this election you would be correct as Saskatchewan and Moose Jaw both saw increases in the percentage of eligible voters - percentages higher than the national average.
Province-wide 570,505 people in the province made it out to vote or 71.7 per cent of eligible voters.
Canada-wide approximately 66 percent of voters decided to vote.
Locally the Moose Jaw - Lake Centre - Lanigan riding beat the national percentage turnout with 73.49 percent. The advance polls saw 10,181 cast their ballots on the Thanksgiving weekend.
Election Signage Outside Central Collegiate - MJ Independent Photo
Province-wide 12 ridings percentage-wise had higher voter turnout than Canada-wide percentages
The riding of Souris-Moose Mountain had the highest turnout at 77.33 per cent.
Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek was second with 76.76 per cent.
Cypress Hills-Grasslands was third with 75.93 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot.
Saskatoon-University was fourth with 75.74 percent turnout.
Saskatoon-Grasswood was fifth with a 75.55 turnout.
Regina-Wascana was sixth with a turnout of 74.73 percent.
Regina-Lewvan was seventh with aturnout of 74.19 percent.
Moose Jaw-Lake Centre-Lanigan was eight with a turnout of 73.49 percent.
Yorkton-Melville with a turnout of 71.73) was ninth.
Battlefords-Lloydminster was tenth with 68.95 percent.
Regina-Qu’Appelle was eleventh with a 68.84 turnout.
Prince Albert was tenth with a 68.53 percentage turnout.
Two ridings won by the NDP in 2015 and now picked up by the Conservatives saw percentage-wise lower than the national turnout. Both ridings were heavily campaigned during the election.
They were Saskatoon West with a turnout of 62.72 percent was thirteenth and Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River had a percentage turnout of 56.38 percent.
Province-wide compared to the 2015 election there was a slightly larger turnout in 2019. In 2015 percentage-wise turnout was 71.1 per cent.