Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum attracted the highest voter turnout for a provincewide vote in at least five decades, with participation exceeding that of the province’s last general election, new data shows.
Elections Alberta released the official referendum results on Oct. 29, showing that voter turnout reached 70.4 percent on the highest-turnout questions. In comparison, the 2023 provincial election recorded a turnout of 60.5 percent.
That makes this year’s referendum the highest-turnout provincewide vote since at least 1975, although it fell short of the record of 81.8 percent set in the 1935 general election.
A total of more than 22.1 million votes were recorded across the referendum’s 10 questions, which addressed Alberta’s future in Canada, as well as immigration, provincial autonomy, and voting requirements….