Here is a table of the turnout ranked by best to worst in 2014
Municipality 2014 2011 2008
North Saanich 53.1 41.5 52.5
Sidney 43.0 31.0 36.5
Oak Bay 42.9 42.0 36.0
Sooke 41.5 41.9 40.1
Victoria 39.1 26.4 26.9
Metchosin 36.9 48.8 58.8
Saanich 36.2 25.4 21.0
Central Saanich 36.1 32.4 33.4
Esquimalt 30.3 18.0 26.9
Highlands 30.1 --- ???? - 2011 was an acclamation
View Royal 28.1 27.9 23.3
Colwood 25.5 26.8 27.0
Langford 19.0 14.0 22.9
Even with talk of a higher voter turnout, the numbers are not much better than in the past several elections. In eight of 12 municipalities this year was the best turnout of the last three elections
The biggest absolute increases were in Saanich and Victoria but still they were barely more than one third. Most people really were not engaged by the election.
We did see one municipality where voter turnout was over 50%, North Saanich.
In Esquimalt and North Saanich the large rise in turnout were caused because the mayors were no acclaimed.
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