Canada’s class divide at the ballot box is growing

Can Canada expect voter turnout to increase further in the future? Probably not, given that both support for democracy and satisfaction with democracy have been on the decline, with roughly half of Canadians not feeling represented by their government. These indicators are particularly acute among Canadians of lower class, income and education levels. To better understand these trends, I investigated turnout by social status since the 1960s in new research published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.