Category Archives: Fixed-Date Elections

Fixed-Date Election Laws and Voter Turnout

Posted on 2023/11/13 by J.W.J. Bowden

British Columbia became the first province to adopt fixed-date election laws in 2001, and the law first took effect for the province’s general election of 2005. Newfoundland and Labrador followed suit and enacted Canada’s second fixed-date election law in 2004, … Continue reading →

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Prince Edward Island Holds Third Consecutive Early Election In Defiance of Fixed-Date Election Law

Posted on 2023/03/07 by J.W.J. Bowden

Dennis King, Premier of Prince Edward Island and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, advised Lieutenant Governor Antoinette Perry to dissolve the 66th General Assembly on 6 March 2023, for an election on 3 April 2023.[1] King had hinted as … Continue reading →

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Democracy Watch Wishes That It Could Quit the Fixed-Date Election Law

Posted on 2022/04/22 by J.W.J. Bowden

  Introduction  Democracy Watch touts itself as “the most effective and successful national citizen advocacy group in Canada at winning systemic changes to key laws since […] 1993.”[1] But it has certainly not met with success in its quixotic crusade … Continue reading →

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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: Nova Scotia Enacts Canada’s Last Fixed-Date Election Law

Posted on 2022/01/11 by J.W.J. Bowden

Nova Scotia’s Failed Fixed-Date Election Bills, 2007-2014 No province has agonized over fixed-date elections like Nova Scotia. Its House of Assembly has debated several private members’ bills to establish fixed-date elections and almost joined in the first wave of legislation … Continue reading →

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Yukon’s Fixed-Date Elections Law

Posted on 2022/01/06 by J.W.J. Bowden

Introduction Between 2001 and 2021, all the federal parliament and the legislatures in all provinces and territories enacted fixed-date election laws. British Columbia started the trend in 2001. Yukon held out to December 2020, and Nova Scotia fell on 5 … Continue reading →

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