THUNDER BAY – Voter turnout plummeted across both Thunder Bay ridings in 2022 – and a lower percentage turned out to cast a ballot that the woeful provincial average.
In Thunder Bay-Superior North, 24,799 of the 57,352 registered voters went to the polls this year, a 43.24 per cent turnout rate.
Four years ago 30,299 voters voted, with 56,277 eligible voters, a 53.84 per cent rate.
Turnout in Thunder Bay-Atikokan was nearly identical.
Of the 62,107 eligible voters, 26,761 voted, a 43.09 per cent rate.
In 2018, 54.7 per cent of the 59,996 eligible voters cast ballots in the riding.
Province-wide, voter turnout was just 44.06 per cent, down more than 12 percentage points over four years ago, which was 56.67 per cent.
Conservative Kevin Holland took Thunder Bay-Atikokan, edging incumbent NDP candidate Judith Monteith-Farrell by 898 votes.
In Thunder Bay-Superior North, the NDP’s Lise Vaugeois led from start to finish, beating Conservative Peng You by 800 votes.
This story has been updated to reflect the final voting tallies.
