A large percentage of eligible voters in Alberta have already cast their ballots before the final day of advance voting for the referendum.

Elections Alberta says 1.2m Albertans had already voted in the referendum BEFORE today, the final day of advance voting. Stunning. Consider: 1.7m voted in 2023 prov elxn; 1.9m voted in 2019 prov elxn. More than half-a-million mail-in-ballots have been received by Elections Alberta.

Advance polls and special ballots are all done for the Alberta Referendum and Elections Alberta says a whopping 1,356,873 have already voted. That's 43.1% of all eligible voters in the province before a single poll opens on election day tomorrow. Comparisons: 2023 elxn: 59.5% voter turnout. 2019: 67.5% #ableg