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Extra than 26,000 voters turned out to forged their ballot Friday in Ottawa’s municipal election.
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Elections Ottawa explained in a Twitter publish on Sunday that 26,773 individuals went out to vote through the progress voting working day.
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Ward 7 (Bay) noticed 3,325 voters, a lot more than 1,000 higher than the following-greatest turnout in Ward 15 (Kitchissippi), in which 2,087 men and women voted.
In Ward 7, incumbent Theresa Kavanagh is running against two other candidates for councillor: Robert Hill and Othman Alhusain. In Ward 15, incumbent councillor Jeff Leiper is working towards Oonagh Fitzgerald and Dan Stringer.
Suitable voters have an additional prospect to vote early on Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at polling stations in their wards. Election day is Oct. 24.
Elections Ottawa famous in a previous Twitter write-up that Para Transpo users can reserve excursions to and from voting stations 7 times in advance of time by calling 613-244-7272 to book their journey.
In the course of four distinctive progress voting times at the finish of September, 18,876 persons turned out to vote, in accordance to Elections Ottawa. That implies a whole of much more than 45,000 people today have by now solid their ballots.
In the previous election, in 2018 — all through which Mayor Jim Watson was re-elected — complete voter turnout hit 42.55 for every cent of 633,946 suitable voters, up a number of points from 39.7 per cent in 2014. Watson is not looking for re-election this time all around.
