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title: "Toronto's advance voting was uneven by ward, polling firm finds"
description: "Eglinton-Lawrence had the highest share of electors vote early, at 16.7 per cent. Humber River-Black Creek had the lowest, at 5.1 per cent."
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Toronto's record advance vote was not spread evenly across the city's 25 wards, according to a ward-level analysis published Tuesday by Liaison Strategies, a polling firm that has been conducting surveys during the mayoral campaign.

The city announced about 222,550 people cast early ballots between October 6 and 11. Liaison Strategies analyzed how those votes were distributed by ward and by the city's four broad regions.

Downtown accounted for 40.1 per cent of advance votes while holding 35.2 per cent of the electors on the city's voters list. North York supplied 27.8 per cent of early ballots and 29.8 per cent of electors. Scarborough had 19.1 per cent of advance votes and 21.3 per cent of electors. Etobicoke had 13.0 per cent of advance votes and 13.6 per cent of electors.

**Ward differences were larger than regional ones**

The differences within each region were more striking than the regional totals. Eglinton-Lawrence, a North York ward, had about 15,000 advance voters, which Liaison Strategies calculated at 16.7 per cent of its registered electors. That was the highest advance-voting rate in the city. Toronto-St. Paul's followed at 15.1 per cent, and Toronto-Danforth at 14.1 per cent.

At the other end, Humber River-Black Creek had the lowest rate in the city at 5.1 per cent. The firm noted that Eglinton-Lawrence's rate was more than three times as high. Within North York alone, the gap between those two wards was the largest in the city.

In Scarborough, Scarborough North led at 11.6 per cent, while Scarborough Centre was at 8.4 per cent.

**How counts grew from 2023**

Advance voting was up in all four regions compared to the 2023 mayoral by-election. North York's advance count grew by about 92 per cent. Etobicoke's was up about 73 per cent. Downtown's was up about 68 per cent. Scarborough's was up about 54 per cent. Liaison Strategies noted these figures do not account for growth in the number of registered electors.

David Valentin, a principal at the firm, wrote that downtown's share of the early vote has slipped from 41.0 per cent in 2023 to 40.1 per cent this year, while North York's share grew from 24.9 per cent to 27.8 per cent.

Advance voting is now closed. Voters who have not yet cast a ballot can do so on election day, October 26, when polls open at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Find your polling location on the [Toronto election candidates page](/on/toronto-2026/candidates#mayor) or through the City of Toronto's website.

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