More than 19 million voted in the 2025 federal election, according to Elections Canada. Voter turnout held steady for the new look riding of St. Albert-Sturgeon River, with 77.62 per cent of registered electors casting their ballots on Monday.
With all 272 polls reporting as of April 30, preliminary results for St. Albert-Sturgeon River saw 76,957 valid votes cast. That's 14,279 more than the 62,678 votes that were cast in St. Albert — Edmonton during the 2021 election held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and higher still than the 65,427 that voted in the 2019 election.
St. Albert — Sturgeon River returning officer Trudy Bossio said that the turnout held pretty steady to what they've seen, attributing it to St. Albert's willingness to stay engaged as a community and turn out to vote.
"I think we were a little surprised by the last day of advance [voting], how many people showed up, but other than that it was kind of what I expected," Bossio said.
St. Albert — Sturgeon River saw an extraordinarily high number of advance voters, with over 30,000 voters casting their ballot during advanced voting from April 18 to April 22. That was 32 per cent of their voter base, and second highest in the province, beaten only by the 33,743 advance voters in Calgary — Crowfoot.
Breaking down how the votes were spread out, St. Albert-Sturgeon River and Conservative MP Michael Cooper received 49,181 votes, almost 20,000 more than the 29,652 he received in the 2021 election.
Lucia Stachurski, who represented the Liberal Party, outperformed her predecessor Greg Springate. Stachurski received 22,957 votes, 11,769 more than the 11,188 Springate received in 2021.
The New Democratic Party under performed nationally, only gaining seven seats. Party support in St. Albert — Sturgeon River took a huge step backwards in this year's federal election. NDP candidate Dot Anderson collected 3,719 votes. In 2021, NDP support nearly doubled from 2019, when candidate Kathleen Mpulubusi over 17,000 votes.
Support for the People's Party of Canada crumbled. PPC candidate Brigitte Cecelia received just 842 votes, compared to the 3,684 votes she received in 2021. The amount returns her to around 2019 levels, where she received 1,268 votes.
The Christian Heritage Party (CHP) was represented by Jeff Willerton, who has run numerous times across Alberta and Saskatchewan. He received the lowest number of votes in the riding with 258.
