# Alberta referendum saw 70.4% turnout — highest voter participation in decades

https://globalnews.ca/news/12126325/alberta-referendum-final-results/

The turnout is the highest for a provincewide vote since at least 1975, but it fell short of breaking the record of 81.8 per cent turnout seen in the 1935 general election.

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