60% of eligible voters voted

[d_rawk]

Right on.

A couple of interesting things from the article you linked that were pointed out in either the article itself or in the comments ..

Of the top five in voter turnout percentage, not one of those ridings elected a Conservative.

Of the bottom five in voter turnout percentage, all of them re-elected the incumbent.

Top Five

Riding	Turnout	Notes
Cardigan	77.9%	Liberal incumbent Lawrence MacAulay has held this riding since 1988
Malpeque	77.1%	Liberal incumbent Wayne Easter held this riding in the Island's closest race
Saanich-Gulf Islands	75.2%	Green Leader Elizabeth May defeated Conservative Gary Lunn, former minister of state for sport
Ottawa Centre	74.6%	NDP incumbent and foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar won 52 per cent of the vote
Louis Hebert	73.0%	NDP Denis Blanchette defeated Bloc Quebecois incumbent by close to 9,000 votes

Bottom Five

Riding	Turnout	Notes
Fort McMurray-Athabaska	41.4%	Conservative Brian Jean has held since 2004
Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor	44.6%	Liberal Scott Simms has held since riding was created in 2004
Churchill, Manitoba	45.0%	NDP Niki Ashton re-won her seat
Random-Burin-St. George's	45.6%	Liberal Judy Foote re-won seat
Calgary East	45.9%	Conservative Deepak Obhrai re-won his seat for the eighth time since 1997

[Kanada Kev]

Also of interesting note in PEI for roughly every 28,000 people there is one MP representing them in Ottawa.

For ON/AB/BC the numbers are roughly 114,800 citizens for one MP representing.

One could look at those numbers and say that a PEI vote is 4x as powerful than in other provinces

Edited May 6, 2011 by Guest

[phishtaper]

thats mighty impressive there. proud props for PEI. friends moved out there a few years ago and love it. i've always wondered what it would be like to live there, but other than voting, what do y'all do there for fun on a small flat island?

[Thorgnor]

frisbee?