Kamloops by-election turnout a dismal 21 per cent

Sep 30, 2017 | 9:29 PM

KAMLOOPS — Twenty-one per cent.

That’s how many people turned out to vote in Saturday’s Kamloops by-election, giving Ken Christian the mayor’s chair and Kathy Sinclair and Ray Dhaliwal the two council seats up for grabs.

The poor turnout shouldn’t have been much of a surprise considering only 2,969 votes were cast in advance polls earlier this month.

By comparison, after three days of advance polls prior to the 2014 general election 2,526 people voted with total voter turnout after general voting day 33 per cent.