This past Saturday saw the end of the 2017 Advanced Voting Period for this year's Provincial Election. View the full 2017 Advanced Voting results for BC's 87 Electoral District results here with comparative 2013 Advanced Voting Results here
With respect to the Cariboo's two Provincial Electoral Districts:
Cariboo-North:
Total Advanced Voting for 2017 -- 3,789 of 19,949 registered voters' cast early ballots representing 19% of all Cariboo-North registered voters' over 6 Advanced Voting Days. In 2013 - 4 Advanced Voting Days were made available where 3,273 of 23,375 registered voters' cast early ballots where that represented 14% of all registered voters' in that election
Cariboo-Chilcotin:
Total Advanced Voting for 2017 -- 4,465 of 23,360 registered voters' cast early ballots representing 19% of all Cariboo-Chilcotin registered voters' over 6 Advanced Voting Days. In 2013 - 4 Advanced Voting Days were made available where 3,299 of 20,926 registered voters' cast early ballots where that represented 15.76% of all registered voters' in that election
The trend for advanced voting since the 1996 BC Election has been an upward one which is good to see but didn't translate to an overall increase in voter turnout in all BC General Elections since 1996 - view here
The FINAL opportunity to vote in the 41st BC General Election is this Tuesday, May 9th from 8am - 8pm. Voting locations for those in Cariboo-North and Cariboo-Chilcotin can be viewed here
~SF
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