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Placemat – Election Related StatisticsCEO Appearance: Supplementary Estimates (B) 2019-20


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Election Administration and Preparation

National Register of Electors
  2019* 2015
Currency 89.9% 84.2%
Coverage 96.4% 92.7%
Accuracy
93.3% 90.9%

Driver's licence and Register of Electors' address accuracy comparison, as of April 2018

  • DRV = 85%
  • NRoE = 90.5%

* Preliminary lists of electors for 2019

Spending Limits ($ maximum)
  2019 2015
Parties 29,060,308.97 54,936,320.15
Candidates 145,436.06 279,227.99
Retention and Recruitment of Election Workers
  2019 2015
Polling day workers hired 213,773 204,434
Office staff hired 17,826 17,392
Total number of election workers paid 231,599 221,826
Number of trainees who did not work 10,016 2,780

Accessible Polling Places

  • 94% in 2019
  • 96% in 2015
  2019 2015
Total number of polling places: 16,071 15,500
Number that met 15 accessibility criteria: 15,169 14,880
Community Relations Officers (CROs)
  2019 2015
Youth 437 230
Ethnocultural* 218 132
Indigenous 231 169
Homeless 111 117
Seniors 394 314
Accessibility 138 233
Total 1,529 1,195

*Includes CROs for official language minority and Jewish communities

Aboriginal Elder and Youth Program
  2019 2015
Elders 40 151
Youth 13 134
Total 53 285

Post-Election Statistics
(Preliminary for 2019)

Voter Turnout
  2019 2015
Total ballots 18,350,359 17,711,983
Total percentage 67.0% 68.3%
Advance polling total 4.8M 3.7M
Polling day total 12.8M 13.4M
Delivery of Voter Information Cards
  2019 2015
VICs mailed 26.2M 25.3M
Revised VICs issued 209K 300K
VICs to newly registered/corrected 1.1M 715K
Political Financing Audit
(as of March 9, 2020)
  Total Total Percentage
Returns received* (all candidates) 1,161 54%
Returns received (MPs only) 174 52%
Incomplete submission or in process 244 11%
CEO’s approved extensions (all) 911 --
CEO’s approved extensions (MPs only) 191 --
Returns not yet submitted and no extension request 140 (no MPs) --

*Candidate returns were due on February 21, 2020, with possibility of extension.

SVR Total Ballots Cast – Group 1
  2019 2015
Canadian Forces 18,849 29,247
Incarcerated 16,372 22,362
International 34,144 11,001
Total 69,365 62,610
SVR Total Ballots Cast – Group 2
  2019 2015
Local 397,121 429,241
National 193,535 126,950
Total 590,656 556,191
Candidates
  2019 2015
Total 2,146 1,792

Communication with the Public

Complaints during the GE
  2019 2015
Overall 11,100 17,000
Accessibility 2,400 3,085
Official languages (OCOL only) 115 25
Official languages (OCOL & other channels) 233 134

(As of January 8, 2020 for the 2019 GE)

EC’s Digital Footprint
  2019 2015
Facebook followers 67K 24K
Twitter followers 27K 15K
YouTube views 9.6M 700K
Website visits 16.4M 16M
Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement
  Total
Contracts and informal agreements 121
Resources distributed 316,935
Stakeholder events 51
Community outreach events 195