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Originally Posted by getbak
I'm not sure where Dippel got that percentage from. In 2017, the turnout was 58.1% with a total number of eligible voters at 666,663.
For this year's turnout to be 46.38%, there would have needed to be 841,705 eligible voters. That's an increase of about 180,000 in four years, but from what I can tell, Calgary's population only grew about 100,000 in the last four years.
Obviously, those two numbers aren't going to be perfectly linked because the number of eligible voters is impacted by people turning 18 and others gaining citizenship while straight population increases are about immigration and births/deaths. It does seem unlikely that so many more people would become eligible to vote than the population increased though.
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The city has updated their results page it indeed shows that there were 847,556 eligible voters this time around. An increase of over 180,000. I guess a lot of people either turned 18 or became citizens in the last 4 years.