While not historically low — the 2022 election holds the record there — with voter turnout totals showing less than half of Ontario's eligible voters cast a ballot.
Elections Ontario reports this morning the unofficial provincial total is a 45.4 per cent voter turnout rate, or about 5 million of the almost 11.1 million people eligible to vote in Ontario weighed in for the 2025 provincial general election.
The record for lowest voter turnout in Ontario history was the last provincial election in 2022 with just 43 per cent of eligible voters exercising their right to elect a government.
The voter turnout rate for provincial elections since 1980 has been between 51 and 64 per cent, with the exception of 2011 when 48 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.
The highest participation numbers on record happened in 1919 when 86 per cent of the province's 1.4 million eligible voters marked a ballot.
In Newmarket-Aurora, voters turnout was close to the provincial engagement, with 44.66 per cent of 98,096 eligible voters taking part. Advance voting in the riding was higher than the provincial average.
Voter turnout in the riding in 2022 election was 44.42 per cent, above the historically low provincial average.
Conservative incumbent Dawn Gallagher Murphy won her second election with 20,780 votes, or 47.43 per cent of votes, with closest challenger Liberal Chris Ballard garnering 8,355 votes, or 41.9 per cent of votes.
In Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill for the 2025 election, the voter turnout rate was low — of 90,295 eligible voters, only 37.81 per cent cast a ballot. Early voting was well below the provincial average, too.
Voter turnout in the riding in 2022 election was 38.19 per cent, slightly above this year's low turnout.
Conservative incumbent Michael Parsa handily won his third election with 19,532 votes, or 57.21 per cent of votes, his largest margin of victory to date — he won by 53.26 per cent of votes in 2022. Closest challenger Liberal Jason Cherniak received 11,568 votes, or 33.88 per cent of votes.
All voter turnout rates and vote counts are from Elections Ontario and are not yet official.
— With files from Debora Kelly