It appears that voter turnout was down in the 2020 Provincial General Election.
Preliminary numbers released by Elections BC today show that 52.4 percent of registered voters cast a ballot this time around, down from around 61.2 percent in 2017.
Over 670-thousand people voted this year during the advance voting period, while 547-thousand voters cast a ballot on Election Day.
An estimated 85,000 certification envelopes containing absentee ballots will be considered for the final count.
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As of Saturday, Elections BC said it had received approximately 525,000 mail-in ballots.
The numbers for specific ridings are not yet available.
– with files from George Henderson, MyCaribooNow.com staff