The outcome of the provincial election was surprisingly close and voter turnout was higher than expected – 60.6 per cent this time around compared with 55.3 per cent in 2015.

A not-for-profit group, Future Majority, worked hard in advance of the provincial election to get young people out to vote. The group plans to use the lessons learned from our election to help mobilize the youth vote across the country in the upcoming federal election.

Lea Movelle, the NL lead with Future Majority, says they contacted 200 young people in the final three days of the campaign. One-hundred returned messages indicating that they were voting, the other one-hundred did not.

Movelle says by Election Day, they had a strong contingent of volunteers encouraging people to vote.

She says they knocked on over 200 doors on Election Day in student neighbourhoods, and provided information to people on the doorstep about where to vote and how.

Listen to Movelle’s discussion with VOCM’s Paddy Daly here: