Canada’s Election Close Race Between Tories and Liberals

October 18th, 2015  |  Canadian Business

The public goes to the polls to vote on Canada’s federal leadership today and it will be a close race for all parties concerned.

Some 26.4 million eligible voters have already begun to cast their ballots today and turnout is expected to be high after advanced polls showed a 71 per cent increase over the 2011 election.

Twenty thousand polling stations will be open for the next twelve hours with the Atlantic locations being the first to close their doors at 7pm. The rest of the polling stations will follow suit with the Pacific region being the last to cast votes.

Predictive polls showed that the NDP have been losing steam over the last weeks and it’s thought that victory in many ridings will be determined by a razor-thin majority between the Tories and Liberals.

Conservative candidate Peter van Loan described the situation best when he said that "some ridings will be decided by not who votes, but who decides not to vote."

All three parties urge their supporters to vote in this election as everyone’s ballot will count, especially in ridings with close competition between candidates.

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