Voter turnout for Tuesday’s provincial election was below the percentage of voters who went out and cast their votes in the 2016 election.

According to unofficial results from Elections Manitoba, voter turnout was 55.4 percent.

That number is two percent short of the turnout in 2016, where 57.4 percent of eligible voters cast their votes.

The decline in voter turnout comes after there was an increase in advance voting numbers. Elections Manitoba said that, including absentee and homebound votes, there was a total of 113,605 advance votes during the 2019 advance voting period compared to the 110,000 votes cast in 2016.

While voter turnout may have been down provincially, the turnout in the Dauphin riding was very similar. In 2016, 61.85 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots and in 2019 that number was 61.6 percent.

Elections Manitoba officials say that, historically, non-voters tend to be younger. In 2016 for example, 70 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 identified as non-voters.

The lowest turnout on record for a provincial election in Manitoba happened in 1941 when only 50.5 percent of eligible voters went to the polls.