Feedback from referendum Counting Officers and election Returning Officers about the sweep has been broadly positive, but there remains scepticism about its value, with only a small number of postal votes being returned as a result.
Returning Officers offered and held briefing meetings with candidates and agents to iron out any difficulties in advance of nomination, and police representatives often attended to provide advice on electoral integrity issues. However, Returning Officers and the police have told us of poor attendance, with election staff and the police sometimes outnumbering candidates and agents or meetings being cancelled.
We continue to encourage candidates, agents and parties to attend briefing meetings offered by Returning Officers to ensure they are fully informed about the nomination process and the requirements of law. We will consider further with Returning Officers and political parties what more could be done to improve the attendance of face to face local briefing for candidates and agents.
We received feedback from certain political parties and some candidates who indicated that they were unclear about whether their election leaflets, delivered under freepost arrangements with Royal Mail, could include messages calling on people to vote for party candidates in both constituency and regional elections. We have referred these issues to Royal Mail, who agreed to look at their guidance again.
We will follow this up with Royal Mail and seek to ensure that the parties in Wales are consulted on any revisions to the guidance in good time before the next Assembly elections in We received positive feedback from Returning Officers about the materials and resources and the direct support we provided to them, but there was also negative feedback.
There was also some negative feedback about presentational issues, with some electoral administrators saying they found our website difficult to navigate, preferring to have the guidance in one printed volume and not to receive updates by email, in case these were missed.
We have taken account of the feedback we received on the planning of our guidance and resources for elections in and how we present that information on our website. Our report gives detail on how much the election cost. The Welsh Government meets the costs of local Returning Officers in delivering the election.
Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience. You are in the Senedd elections section Home Elections and referendums Past elections and referendums Senedd elections. About this report Our report is about the administration of the National Assembly for Wales general election, held on 5 May Facts and figures Our report focuses particularly on the experience of voters, based on public opinion research and other research data.
Turnout steadily increased with age from This same general pattern has been seen in every general election since , when these studies began. The youngest age group can be further broken down by whether they were eligible to vote in the previous general election or not. For , those eligible to vote for the first time federally includes those born between October 15, and May 2, These youth voted at slightly higher rates When compared to , turnout in increased by two percentage points nationally.
This change is driven by increases of 4. Looking at differences between men and women, for the general election women participated at a higher rate This is the same pattern seen in the previous election in The use of alternative voting methods, advance polls or special ballots, tends to increase with age.
Use of advance polls was higher in than for each of the three previous elections in each age group. The current study is the result of the involvement of several sectors at Elections Canada. Charlie Arcaro and Pierre Parent aided in the sample design and estimation. Pammett and in by Pierre Daoust from Statistics Canada. This report presents estimates of voter turnout by various demographic groups defined by age and gender, at the national and provincial or territorial levels for the 41st federal general election, held on May 2, Comparisons with results from previous federal general elections are made where appropriate.
Tables of the estimates presented here, along with their associated statistical margins of error, are provided on Elections Canada's website at www. Official turnout for the election was Historically, electoral participation peaked in Canada at The decline in electoral participation has been the subject of much academic research and analysis.
Most of this research has been based on estimates from surveys, which consistently overestimate participation rates. Canada's Chief Electoral Officer has the mandate to make the electoral process better known to Canadians, particularly those who might experience difficulty exercising their right to vote. To this end, Elections Canada conducts its own research on electoral participation. Similar information was available on the Elections Canada Web site. To prepare for the election, Elections Canada redesigned the entire Web site to make information more accessible.
During the election, the site received more than 5 million visits, compared with 3 million during the 40th general election. On election day alone, there were 1. For the first time, Elections Canada changed its Web site for the duration of a general election to facilitate access for electors wishing to lodge a complaint.
More than 6, e-mails were received from March 26 to May 28, , regarding complaints, comments and general inquiries. This initiative demonstrated the need for Elections Canada to find ways to improve e-mail communication with electors. Electors wrote to Elections Canada separate from complaints about offences under the Canada Elections Act , which are addressed to the Commissioner of Canada Elections on a wide range of issues, such as special ballot voting at the University of Guelph, advance polls being held on several days of religious observance, the format of leadership debates, harassing phone calls from alleged representatives of political parties and candidates, and voter identification requirements including the VIC not being accepted as identification.
Other inquiries involved issues such as the location of polling sites, procedures at the polls and the behaviour of election staff. More details will be provided in the evaluations report assessing the conduct of the 41st general election. Elections Canada maintained a constant presence in a mix of media throughout the election period. The campaign involved overlapping phases: electors were advised of registration, key dates, voting options and voter identification requirements.
The theme of the campaign was "Vote. Shape your world. Ads were carried on television and radio stations, and in daily newspapers and community newspapers. Ads also ran on 1, movie screens and 42 Internet networks representing several hundred Web sites, including Facebook and YouTube. For the first time, Elections Canada used out-of-home public advertisements, including more than 4, regular and digital boards in public venues such as transit stations, restaurants, fitness centres and on bus sides.
Ads were aired on the rink boards during several Stanley Cup playoff games in Vancouver. To help reach Aboriginal and ethnocultural communities, ads were also featured in multiple languages on specialty television and radio, in community newspapers and as Internet banners.
To support direct contact with national and regional media, Elections Canada used its Canada-wide network of 15 national and regional communications professionals. From the issue of the writs to the end of judicial recounts, this team answered 3, calls from members of the media. Elections Canada also initiated calls to the media to provide information on the electoral process and issued 36 news releases. Elections Canada responded to a total of media requests for formal interviews print, radio or television with the Chief Electoral Officer, the Elections Canada spokesperson, regional media advisors or other Elections Canada officials.
This subsection describes the adaptations made to the Act; the registration of electors; voting by special ballot and at advance and ordinary polls, as well as measures taken with regard to accessibility; actions taken by Elections Canada to finalize the results of the election; compliance and enforcement actions taken by the Commissioner of Canada Elections; and the costs of the election. The Chief Electoral Officer may adapt the Canada Elections Act under subsection 17 1 to address an emergency, an unusual or unforeseen circumstance, or an error.
Table 4 in the Appendix provides details on adaptations of the Act pursuant to subsection 17 1 that were made during the 41st general election. An adaptation made pursuant to this subsection is only applicable for the period of the election during which it is made and the 30 days after polling day for that election.
In addition, section of the Canada Elections Act permits the Chief Electoral Officer to issue instructions for the purpose of adapting any provision of the Special Voting Rules set out in Part 11 sections to of the Act in order to execute the intent of those sections in respect of a particular circumstance.
In general, these adaptations by instruction are required to address issues with the Special Voting Rules process that are not contemplated by the Act, or to fill gaps in the Act that would have the effect of preventing electors who are otherwise qualified to vote from casting their ballot.
Adaptations made pursuant to section can be made applicable only for the purposes of a particular election or made to continue to apply for future elections until rescinded by the Chief Electoral Officer.
During the 41st general election, it was necessary for the Chief Electoral Officer to issue five new adaptations by instruction and to reapply seven adaptations by instruction that were made at a previous election. Table 5 in the Appendix contains descriptions of the adaptations by instruction used during the 41st general election. When an election call is imminent, information is extracted from the National Register of Electors to produce the preliminary lists of electors.
For the 41st general election, the preliminary lists included 23,, electors. When the 41st general election was called, there was a notable jump in the number of transactions on the Elections Alberta and Elections British Columbia Web sites offering registration services to provincial electors. The number of updates and new registrations on the two provincial Web sites doubled, going from roughly 50 to per day in British Columbia and from roughly 60 to per day in Alberta.
These registrations were provided to Elections Canada revising agents, who followed up with electors to obtain proof of identity or signatures when necessary. Elections Canada is working to start introducing on-line registration services in the near future.
After address updates, deletions and new registrations during the election period and at the advance and ordinary polls, the number of electors on the final lists was 24,, Following the 40th general election, the final lists contained 23,, electors. Table 6 in the Appendix provides more details about voter registration. The figure for the final lists of electors represented an increase of 1 percent over the number of electors on the preliminary lists for the 41st general election, and a 1 percent increase over the number of electors on the final lists for the 40th general election.
On election day, some , electors registered at the polls, representing 6. The quality of information on the preliminary lists of electors can be measured by two main indicators: coverage and currency. Coverage represents the proportion of electors on the lists relative to the total electoral population. Currency represents the proportion of electors on the lists at the correct residential address. The preliminary lists for the 41st general election included 93 percent of Canadian electors, and 84 percent of electors were listed at the correct residential address.
These figures are comparable to those for the two previous general elections. The currency of the lists in 10 ridings was estimated to have dropped to less than 75 percent. The revision activities in these ridings were closely monitored during the revision period.
Electors must appear on the voters list at a valid residential address, which determines the polling division where they may vote on advance or ordinary polling days.
On occasion, electors use an address on their driver's licence or tax information that is different from their home address. For example, they may use the address of their place of business or a mailbox service. Returning officers can verify addresses and remove electors listed at non-residential or commercial addresses.
Commercial addresses are then flagged in the National Register of Electors so that they cannot be associated with electors in the future. In accordance with the Canada Elections Act , candidates receive voters lists name, address and unique identifier only for the electoral district in which they are running. Of the 1, electors identified in the four electoral districts, more than 66 percent were listed at their correct residential address.
Approximately 17 percent were listed at mailbox service addresses. The remaining 17 percent were listed at other non-residential addresses, such as their place of business. Returning officers removed the electors with commercial addresses from the preliminary lists of electors and, where possible, advised the electors that they could not vote in the polling division associated with that address.
All candidates in the four electoral districts were advised of the results of this work by the returning officers, who also expressed their thanks to the candidates who brought this issue to their attention. For electors seeking alternatives to voting at advance polls or on election day in their electoral district, the Special Voting Rules afford the opportunity to vote by mail or at a local Elections Canada office.
Special ballot application forms and guides are widely available in Canada and throughout the world. As in the previous general election, electors could download the application form from the Elections Canada Web site after answering some basic questions to determine their eligibility. A total of 86, special ballot application forms were downloaded from the Web site, compared with 88, forms during the 40th general election. Elections Canada undertook a number of outreach initiatives to increase awareness of the voting options available to Canadians away from their electoral district or abroad.
E-bulletins were sent to post-secondary institutions with international student exchange or internship programs, representing 21, students abroad, as well as companies employing Canadians overseas, representing 11, workers abroad.
Elections Canada also distributed registration kits to 34 Passport Canada offices and notices to shipping lines. Ads were placed in various newspapers and publications by Elections Canada's partners in missions abroad, who also posted information about the election on their Web sites.
As with the 40th general election, Elections Canada contacted national electors electors living in Canada but away from their electoral district during the election period whose applications for registration were still incomplete at the close of registration on April 26, , along with the electors whose applications arrived after the prescribed deadline, and encouraged them to vote in person on election day when possible.
Electors who were located within a radius of kilometres of their home address were contacted by phone and others were contacted by e-mail or letter.
Due to distance and the short election calendar, some electors could not return their special ballots within the prescribed period. Of the 42, national and international applications received, 3, required follow-up as a result of missing or unreadable proof of identification or other missing required information. About 70 percent of electors submitted their applications by fax, a transmittal method that affects the quality and readability of documents.
Some electors whose proof of identification or residential address remained unreadable, even after several attempts to submit the documentation, were not sent a special ballot voting kit. In total, 1, electors did not provide the required information in time. In all, , special ballots were cast in the 41st general election including 5, rejected ballots , compared with , in the 40th general election. The following table lists the statistics regarding electors who voted by special ballot under the Special Voting Rules for the 39th, 40th and 41st general elections.
The number of local ballots received late is not available. For the 41st general election, Elections Canada introduced improvements to the special ballot application process.
New technology, such as a Web-based application wizard and image capture of application forms made possible through a shared agreement with Public Works and Government Services Canada, helped Elections Canada to more effectively process applications and respond to elector inquiries.
In addition, prior to the introduction of the new Special Voting Rules System, the list of Canadian Forces electors was managed and provided to Elections Canada by the Department of National Defence; however, this process entailed duplication of effort and in some cases caused administrative delays. The introduction of the new system allowed Elections Canada to wholly manage and produce this list.
The new Special Voting Rules System was first used during an outreach activity with members of the Canadian Forces, who were invited to update their Statement of Ordinary Residence on-line in June These persons are entitled to vote if they left Canada less than five years before applying to register and vote by special ballot. At the beginning of an election, a special ballot voting kit is mailed to each of them.
For the 41st general election, international electors outside the United States and Western Europe who received their special ballot by courier were informed by e-mail of the delivery of a package from Elections Canada. At the call of the 41st general election, there were 5, international electors on the lists.
An additional 5, electors registered during the election. In all, 6, voted but of the ballots had to be rejected. In the end, the ballots of 6, international electors were counted. The ballots of international electors were returned too late to be counted. With some exceptions, Canadians residing abroad are only authorized to vote in an election if they have been residing outside Canada for less than five consecutive years immediately prior to applying to vote and if they intend to return to Canada to resume residence in the future.
Up to and including the general election, anyone who had returned to Canada, even for a brief visit, was deemed to have "resided" in the country and the five-year clock was reset, allowing them to vote by special ballot. Following the general election, in the course of reviewing information material for these international electors, Elections Canada changed the information provided to more closely respect the text of the legislation by indicating that the five-year period begins from the date the elector leaves Canada to live abroad and remains in effect until the date the elector returns to Canada to reside.
A visit to Canada cannot be considered a resumption of residence in Canada and does not interrupt the five-year period. Elections Canada also changed the letter sent to electors on their five-year anniversary away. This letter was not as clear as it could have been, and many Canadians who had resided abroad for longer than the last five years only realized when the election was called that they would not be entitled to vote. Since the last general election, 2, international electors who reached the five-year limit were deleted from the International Register of Electors.
In his recommendations report submitted to Parliament in September following the 38th general election, the Chief Electoral Officer recommended the removal of the clause imposing a five-year limit to residency abroad as prescribed in paragraph 11 d of the Canada Elections Act. At general elections, all voters receive exactly the same ballot and may vote for any candidate whose name appears on it, without regard to the political affiliation of the candidate or the voter. The poll worker shall then record in the poll book the elector's choice.
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