Voter turnout for the Oct. 21 federal election in the Guelph riding was down slightly from the last federal election but was still higher than the national average.
Elections Canada has finalized the numbers from election night, with all 239 polls in Guelph now counted. A total of 72.33 per cent of the 105,106 registered voters in Guelph voted. The national average was 65.95 per cent.
In the 2015 federal election the turnout was 73.27 per cent and in 2011 it was 64.48 per cent.
There were a total of 76,020 votes, with 75,568 valid votes. There were 452 rejected ballots.
The highest voter turnout in the country was in the Ottawa suburb of Carleton, with 77.4 per cent.
Final tallied votes for Guelph were:
Lloyd Longfied, Liberal: 30,497 (40.4 per cent)
Steve Dyck, Green Party: 19,236 (25.5 per cent)
Ashish Sachan, Conservative: 14,568 (19.3 per cent)
Aisha Jahangir, New Democrat: 9,297 (12.3 per cent)
Mark Paralovos, PPC: 1,087 (1.4 per cent)
Gordon Truscott, Christian Heritage Party: 498 (0.7 per cent)
Juanita Burnett, Communist: 166 (0.2 per cent)
Mike Wassilyn, Independent: 133 (0.2 per cent)
Kornelis Klevering, Independent: 86 (0.1 per cent)
