Figure 48: Sources of information on voting procedures
The bar graph indicates where respondents got information on voting procedures for the by-election. The percentages by riding are:
Trinity—Spadina
- Voter information card, 61 percent
- Newspapers, 8 percent
- EC householder, 14 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 9 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 4 percent
- Television, 9 percent
- Radio, 4 percent
- Political parties, 9 percent
- Internet/website (general), 7 percent
- EC website, 9 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 2 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 2 percent
- Local EC office, 2 percent
- Social media, 1 percent
- Elections Canada, 1 percent
- Polling stations, 1 percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, 0 percent
- Other, 3 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 5 percent
- Don't know / no asnwer, 2 percent
Scarborough
- Voter information card, 63 percent
- Newspapers, 8 percent
- EC householder, 15 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 9 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 8 percent
- Television, 11 percent
- Radio, 6 percent
- Political parties, 7 percent
- Internet/website (general), 6 percent
- EC website, 1 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 3 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 3 percent
- Local EC office, less than 1 percent
- Social media, 0 percent
- Elections Canada, 2 percent
- Polling stations, 1percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, 1 percent
- Other, 3 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 5 percent
- Don't know / no asnwer, 3 percent
Fort McMurray
- Voter information card, 50 percent
- Newspapers, 10 percent
- EC householder, 9 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 10 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 13 percent
- Television, 3 percent
- Radio, 10 percent
- Political parties, 5 percent
- Internet/website (general), 4 percent
- EC website, 2 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 2 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 1 percent
- Local EC office, 2 percent
- Social media, 3 percent
- Elections Canada, 1 percent
- Polling stations, 2 percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, 1 percent
- Other, 1 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 12 percent
- Don't know / no asnwer, 2 percent
Macleod
- Voter information card, 57 percent
- Newspapers, 29 percent
- EC householder, 8 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 7 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 8 percent
- Television, 5 percent
- Radio, 8 percent
- Political parties, 2percent
- Internet/website (general), 4 percent
- EC website, less than 1 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 2 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 1 percent
- Local EC office, 3 percent
- Social media, 2 percent
- Elections Canada, less than 1 percent
- Polling stations, 2 percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, 0 percent
- Other, 1 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 8 percent
- Don't know / no asnwer, 3 percent
Overall
- Voter information card, 58 percent
- Newspapers, 14 percent
- EC householder, 12 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 9 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 8 percent
- Television, 7 percent
- Radio, 7 percent
- Political parties, 6 percent
- Internet/website (general), 6 percent
- EC website, 3 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 2 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 2 percent
- Local EC office, 2 percent
- Social media, 1 percent
- Elections Canada, 1 percent
- Polling stations, 1 percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, 1 percent
- Other, 2 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 7 percent
- Don't know, 3 percent
The percentages by those who did and did not vote in the by-election are:
Among those who voted
- Voter information card, 63 percent
- Newspapers, 16 percent
- EC householder, 12 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 10 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 8 percent
- Television, 9 percent
- Radio, 7 percent
- Political parties, 8 percent
- Internet/website (general), 7 percent
- EC website, 4 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 3 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 2 percent
- Local EC office, 2 percent
- Social media, 1 percent
- Elections Canada, 1 percent
- Polling stations, 1 percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, less than 1 percent
- Other, 2 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 3 percent
- Don't know, 1 percent
Among those who did not vote
- Voter information card, 50 percent
- Newspapers, 10 percent
- EC householder, 11 percent
- Experience/prior knowledge, 6 percent
- Friends/family/parents, 8 percent
- Television, 4 percent
- Radio, 7 percent
- Political parties, 3 percent
- Internet/website (general), 4 percent
- EC website, 2 percent
- Pamphlets/brochures, 2 percent
- Telephone (1-800 number), 1 percent
- Local EC office, 1 percent
- Social media, 1 percent
- Elections Canada, 1 percent
- Polling stations, 1 percent
- Billboard/Poster/Signage, 1 percent
- Miscellaneous sites/specific locations (mall, library, etc.), 1 percent
- Word of mouth, less than 1 percent
- Training program/Class sessions, less than 1 percent
- Same place/station/location, 1 percent
- Other, 1 percent
- None/did not intend to vote, 14 percent
- Don't know, 5 percent