Saskatchewan’s two northernmost constituencies appear to have told a similar story to what happened in 2011.
Not only did both ridings re-elect the same NDP candidates, voter turnout didn’t stray too far off.
When compared with the total number of votes, voter turnout in the Athabasca riding dropped just over one per cent from a total of 2,967 votes in 2011 to 2,677 on Monday.
In Cumberland voter turnout didn’t change too much as well – it actually increased by a margin of just under one per cent, from 5,271 votes in 2011 to 5,335 votes this year.
When looking at the rest of the province it may appear there was a very low turnout for the election at 57 per cent of voters casting a ballot, while 66 per cent did so in 2011.
However, Elections Saskatchewan says the actual number of votes cast actually increased from 403,000 in 2011 to 426,000 as of Tuesday morning.
This is because Elections Saskatchewan says they were able to increase the registered number of voters in the province by a significant margin.
Chief Electoral Officer Michael Boda recently stated these changes would tell a different story.
Simply put, Boda says changing the denominator in the equation would impact the voter turnout percentage.
The federal election saw much higher turnouts at the polls. In November, around 68 per cent of registered voters cast their ballots in Desnethe-Missinippi Churchill River. That was a huge change from 2011 – when the riding was among the lowest for voter turnouts across Canada.