I Came, I Saw, I Voted
Distance to Polling Locations and Voter Turnout in Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6237280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly Ann Garnett (0000-0002-2119-4399, Royal Military College of Canada, corresponding author), Sean Grogan (0000-0002-1347-7874, Polytechnique Montréal) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 316-334 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423921000196 |
| OpenAlex | W3157191724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 34 |
How accessible are polling locations in Canada? This article explores, for the first time in the Canadian context, the distance that voters may travel to get to their polling stations. It assembles a new set of data from the province of Ontario, mapping the distance between polling locations and a representative point in the polling division, using a variety of measures, including walking, driving and public transit times. It estimates the relationship between these distances and travel times and socio-demographic characteristics of each polling division, finding noteworthy relationships between these distances and the percentage of minority populations (both immigrant and Indigenous) in the polling division. This article also presents a potential negative, but nonlinear, relationship between distances and travel times and turnout, contributing to our understanding of how voters’ rational calculus of voting may be related to the locations of polling stations
Computer network · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Polling · Polling system · Turnout · Voter turnout · Voting · Computer Science · Law · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |