1.1.1 Awareness of By-elections

The above stacked bar graph shows awareness of the November 17, 2014, federal by-elections. The results are as follows:

• Awareness of the by-elections was high with 91 percent of the respondents saying they knew about the elections and 9 percent saying they were not aware of the elections.
• In Whitby–Oshawa 95 percent of the respondents were aware of the election while 5 percent were not aware.
• In Yellowhead 86 percent of the respondents were aware of the election, 13 percent were not aware of the elections and 1 percent did not know or refused to answer.
• Base: n=1,503
• Base Whitby–Oshawa: n=753
• Base Yellowhead: n=750