PC>  Well Ontario has finished voting...

PC>  This year I voted, and I found I was in the minority as only 47%
  >of eligble voters bothered to go to advanced polls and vote for
  >their local candidate as well the Referundum on MMP.

PC>  Now for stats ....  Record people not voting was 53 %    and there
  >was reports of poll problems, and many must have walked out, as well
  >polling stations over yonder well out of the way...etc.  They say
  >the record is 55% set in 1925.

The numbers being thrown around vary a bit but they all agree with
what you basically said.

What CTV National News said was that for the last provincial election
the voter turnout was 56.4% and was the lowest in history until then.
This election the turnout was 52.4%.  Given the huge Liberal majority
it sounds like the Conservatives are staying home.
A two term majority Liberal gov't also hasn't happened in 70 years.
It appears the Conservatives did a good job of messing things up
when they were last in power..

They also said that it's not so much the Liberals gaining ground as it
was the Conservatives Losing gtound, but the lost Conservative seats
didn't go to the Liberals, they went to the other smaller parties like
the NDP and Green party.

The Mixed Member Parliament number you mentioned was that 63% voted
against (37% for) changing the voting system. I believe they needed
a minimum of 75% to vote FOR the change before it would be adopted.

In any case that's just numbers. The end result, if a little more
dramatic than anticipated, was pretty much what I expected going in.

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