{"id":44943,"date":"2021-11-02T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/?p=44943"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:57:21","slug":"one-in-five-voters-has-already-voted-in-sutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/en\/one-in-five-voters-has-already-voted-in-sutton\/","title":{"rendered":"One in five voters has already voted in Sutton!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Town of Sutton municipal election participation rate:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2017 election: 57.7%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013 election: 65.1%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2009 election: 59.6%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005 election: 64.0%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Because municipal services are at the heart of our daily lives, let&#8217;s vote in municipal elections! <\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40061\" style=\"width:512px;height:246px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN-1536x738.png 1536w, https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Image-Elections-municipales-2021-EN-2048x983.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advance polling day on Sunday, October 31 allowed more than 900 of our voters (out of a total of 4285) to come and vote for our candidates for the municipal council positions. Based on the average participation rate of the last four municipal elections in Sutton, which is 61.6%, we can expect to add approximately 1700 ballots next Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One in five voters has already voted in Sutton! - test optimisation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One in five voters has already voted in Sutton! - test optimisation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Advance polling day on Sunday, October 31 allowed more than 900 of our voters (out of a total of 4285) to come and vote for our candidates for the municipal council positions. 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