[buildings]

went to vote around 1pm. long lines, took 40 minutes.

 

[TAS]

went to vote around 1pm. long lines, took 40 minutes.

Given our population is 200,000 more than last election, I imagine it will be. Not sure how many additional voting stations have been added since 2021.

 

[Gronk!]

went to vote around 1pm. long lines, took 40 minutes.

Another reason why I prefer to vote in advance.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

I'm a little anxious that there is high turnout because the anti-infill/status quo rhetoric amplified by all the party money has resonated. But it's also possible the "Cartmell = UCP" connection has struck a nerve and people are coming out to defeat him. Honestly, we have so little data at this point and we won't really know till tomorrow.

 

[BASE]

I'm not so sure the lines mean high turnout but hopefully proven wrong as would always like to see as much participation as possible. Hopefully we get some indication of numbers tonight even if nowhere near the full counts.

 

[trevorhayden]

420.69? Nice!

 

[YEG imagineer]

And now we wait. This election is going to be so long into the night with the changes the AB govt instituted.

 

[The_Cat]

Some results in:

2025 Edmonton Election Results (Unofficial) | City of Edmonton

Election results from the 2025 Edmonton Election, including the City of Edmonton mayor and council and Edmonton Catholic Schools and Edmonton Public Schools trustees.

www.edmonton.ca

 

[constance_chlore]

Not that the counting is anywhere close to done, but so far all incumbents are leading. (Salvador's margins are the weakest.)

Taproot's tracker is pretty convenient: https://edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/results

Update: now, all incumbents except for Jennifer Rice. Woohoo!
Update x2: and Saadiq Sumar is behind for school board. but even these potential upsets are very, very close...

 

[Kosy123]

Generational fumble if Cartmell loses this, especially with the amount of financial backing he's gotten compared to Knack.

 

[constance_chlore]

Generational fumble if Cartmell loses this, especially with the amount of financial backing he's gotten compared to Knack.

The results are getting worse and worse for him. He's down 10 percentage points.

And now the first ~10% of O-day'min results (the final ward to report anything) are in, and all incumbent councillors and school board trustees except Jennifer Rice are still leading.

 

[Gronk!]

Just follow this:

Unofficial results - 2025 Edmonton Municipal Election

Unofficial election results for the 2025 Edmonton Municipal Election held on Oct. 20, 2025

edmonton.taproot.vote

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

I'm not so sure the lines mean high turnout but hopefully proven wrong as would always like to see as much participation as possible. Hopefully we get some indication of numbers tonight even if nowhere near the full counts.

Looks like you are correct. Taproot: "voter turnout was just more than 30%, the lowest since 2007".

How is it that Calgary has all their polls reported and yet Edmonton has less than a quarter of them? Looks like Farkas just eeked past Sharp

 

[buildings]

long lines not indicative of voter engagement (30% vs 37% last election), but onerous changes to the process introduced by UCP gov. Their paranoia about voting machines and insisting on hand counting has slowed reporting to a snails pace. Everything they touch is made worse by their incompetence.

 

[bodsbods9090]

Here's my experience, posted on Reddit:

Thank you for the hard work from me too.

Now, I have a question.

I was voting in Jon Morgan's ward. We had four tables setup to go to for the cards to vote on. Why were we in a snake line when the poll workers could have created lines for each table and had people line up that was instead? Is the snake line a new rule or something? I was baffled as to why that wasn't done.
If that was an option and it wasn't used, poor planning on their part.

Also, when I came into the school to vote, there was an individual who was filming at the front door. The man at the front told the guy it's illegal to film at a voting station but he argued with him. The dude was probably one of those nose picking kids when he was growing up!
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Is this poor planning by the people running the station or is it a rule to make people line up in a snake line?