Lavenie@programming.dev to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoAlberta voters reject plan for referendum to leave Canadawww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1300
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minus-squareRudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 hours ago1 in 4 that voted. About a 3rd of Albertans gave a shit one way or another to actually go vote.
minus-squareWarehouse@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-26 hours agoA lot more than a third of eligible voters came out to vote. Not all the polls have even been unofficially counted yet and we’re at nearly 1.9 million of the 2.9 million eligible voters. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-referendum-live-results-9.7385074 https://www.elections.ab.ca/resources/statistics-research/elector-counts/ Also, this is a vote to have a vote to leave, so what we’re seeing with is the ceiling, you’d expect more for a stay vote if it actually came to that.
1 in 4 that voted. About a 3rd of Albertans gave a shit one way or another to actually go vote.
A lot more than a third of eligible voters came out to vote. Not all the polls have even been unofficially counted yet and we’re at nearly 1.9 million of the 2.9 million eligible voters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-referendum-live-results-9.7385074
https://www.elections.ab.ca/resources/statistics-research/elector-counts/
Also, this is a vote to have a vote to leave, so what we’re seeing with is the ceiling, you’d expect more for a stay vote if it actually came to that.