Advance polls smashed records. What days and provinces saw the most votes? – National [Video]

Advance poll numbers broke records, Elections Canada said this week, and newly-released numbers give further insight on the days and the provinces where those record-breaking numbers came from.

Preliminary estimates released by the agency on Tuesday showed 7.3 million voters cast their ballot at advance polls during this past weekend, a 25 per cent increase from the 5.8 million votes in the 2021 federal election.

According to data provided on Wednesday, the daily estimated turnout for the 2025 advance polls each surpassed the same period four years ago, with Friday and Monday seeing the biggest number of Canadians at the ballot box.

A record number of voters cast their first votes on Friday, with 2,054,525 ballots cast, a big jump from the 1,401,010 cast on the first day of advance polls in September 2021.

The numbers did dip slightly on Saturday and Easter Sunday, for those who celebrate, with 1,659,952 and 1,466,225 cast, respectively. Even …