{"id":925205,"date":"2026-10-08T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:04:08","slug":"vancouver-smashes-single-day-early-voting-turnout-record-with-over-25k-ballots-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925205\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver smashes single-day early voting turnout record with over 25K ballots cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vancouver voters looking to turn in an advance ballot in the municipal election set a new record on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The city says an estimated 25,142 people showed up to advance voting locations, the highest single-day advance turnout on record.<\/p>\n

The previous record of 21,824 stood for just three days \u2014 having been set during the first day of advance voting for this year’s election on Sat. Oct. 3.<\/p>\n

According to the city, both days smashed advance turnout in the city’s last municipal election. Turnout on the first day of advance voting in 2026 was a whopping 196 per cent higher than in 2022, while turnout Wednesday for the second day was 139 per cent higher. <\/p>\n

In 2022, a total of 65,127 people voted early, nearly 40 per cent of the election’s total turnout. <\/p>\n

Despite the high turnout on Wednesday, the city said it had more and larger advance polling places than in previous years, which helped keep wait times down. <\/p>\n

Numerous other municipalities in the region, including Surrey, Burnaby and New Westminster also held advance voting on Wednesday, but have yet to publish turnout numbers. <\/p>\n

Vancouverites can still cast early ballots on Saturday, Oct. 10, and Tuesday, Oct. 13.<\/p>\n

General election day is Saturday, Oct. 17, when polling places will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-925205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}