Canadians are going to the polls today and are electing a government after the longest election campaign in modern Canadian history.
The polls opened in Saskatchewan at 7:30 a.m. and will stay open until 7:30 p.m.
When the election was called, the Conservatives held 13 of the province’s 14 ridings, while the Liberals had one seat.
Because five incumbents, all Conservatives, are not running again, it’s guaranteed Saskatchewan will be sending some fresh faces to Ottawa.
Saskatchewan has the same number of seats it had in 2011, but there’s a new map with fewer hybrid rural-urban ridings and more purely urban or rural ridings.
While the 78-day campaign could have had the possibility of turning some voters off, the advance poll results demonstrated the opposite.
The turnout at the advance polls surged by 100 per cent above the 2011 level, as more than 95,000 people showed up to case to cast their ballots early, according to Elections Canada.
Every Canadian has the right to demand three consecutive hours from an employer to cast their vote, according to Elections Canada.
Employers must simply enable employees to have three hours minimum on Monday to get to polling stations and mark their ballots.
Source: www.cbc.ca