Key Findings – Report on the Survey of Campus Electors for the 43rd General Election
The majority of respondents (62%) indicated that they were aware of the option to vote on campus.
Electors who resided on campus were more likely to be aware of the option to vote on campus (74%) compared with electors who lived off campus with their parents or guardians (65%) and electors who lived off campus on their own (59%).
Approximately one-fifth (22%) of respondents who were aware of the option to vote on campus indicated that they were made aware by Elections Canada posters. This was the largest response category.
The majority of respondents (87%) indicated that they had voted in 2019.
Among voters who were aware of the option to vote on campus:
Nearly four in 10 (37%) said that they had voted on campus as part of the Vote on Campus program.
Over one-third (35%) indicated that they had voted at a regular poll on election day.
Nearly one-quarter (23%) said that they had voted at an advance poll.
Of those who had not voted on campus, the most common reason provided was that they had preferred to vote in their home riding (35%).
While approximately one-fifth (18%) of respondents said that they would not have voted if campus voting had not been available, nearly a third of these individuals (30%) lived on campus compared with those that lived off campus without parents or guardians (18%) or with parents or guardians (9%).