Despite a 29 per cent increase in the advance polls, fewer Canadians cast a ballot in the 2019 federal election.
According to data from Elections Canada, 17,890,264 eligible voters cast a ballot or about 65.95 per cent. That's down from 68.3 per cent four years ago.
The numbers also show the Conservatives got more votes than the Liberals who won a minority government.
Elections Canada said more than 6.1 million Canadians cast a ballot for their Conservative candidate in their ridings. That compares with the Liberals who garnered over 5.9 million votes.
The highest locally was in the riding of Essex, where Conservative Chris Lewis defeated NDP incumbent Tracey Ramsey. In that riding, 66.26 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot compared to 63.1 per cent in 2015.
Chatham-Kent-Leamington had aturnout at 62.35 per cent.
In that riding, Conservative Dave Epp won.
Windsor-Tecumseh had the biggest turnout in the city at 59.48 per cent, a hotly contested race that saw Liberal Irek Kusmierczyk narrowly defeat incumbent Cheryl Hardcastle of the NDP by just 642 votes.
In Windsor West, 54.93 per cent of those eligible to vote did.
Windsor West voted to return NDP incumbent Brian Masse to Ottawa.