A couple of local ridings had better voter turnout than the overall Ontario turnout in the latest provincial election.
The Ontario-wide voter turnout in this 2025 election was about 45.4 per cent, slightly above the lowest ever in 2022 at 43 per cent.
While higher than the 2022 election, it’s still one of the lowest turnouts in Ontario’s history.
One of, if not the highest turnout as far as numbers show Friday afternoon is the local riding of Huron-Bruce which had a 55.6 per cent turnout. In 2022, it was 54.16 per cent.
Not many ridings had turnouts in the mid-50 per cent range. Trailing Huron-Bruce were Haldimand Norfolk 54.77, Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas 54.76, Parry Sound Muskoka 54.92 per cent.
Voter turnout in Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound was 50 per cent, which is up a little from 47 per cent in 2022. It was 58.39 per cent in 2018.
In Simcoe-Grey, the turnout was lower than the provincial turnout at 44.5 per cent, but that’s up from 43.2 per cent in 2022.
Even with possibly the highest turnout in the province this year, Huron-Bruce is down significantly from 63.51 per cent 2018 and 59.9 per cent in 2014.
It was a Progressive Conservative sweep in the area, with PC candidate Paul Vickers winning the seat in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, PC candidate Lisa Thompson winning a fifth term in Huron-Bruce and PC candidate Brian Saunderson re-elected in Simcoe-Grey.
