Voter turnout at Burnaby's advanced polls is up in this year's civic election.
Advanced voting was held on Nov. 5, 8, 9 and 16, and in all, 3,765 people cast their ballots.
Over the past three elections, advanced polling numbers have been increasing by about 1,000 every election.
In the 2008 election, 2,641 people voted in advance of election day, and in 2005, 1,599 advanced votes were cast.
Burnaby's deputy chief election officer Lynne Axford said it's hard to know why the numbers are rising.
"We've done a little bit more advertising this year than we have in the past," Axford said. "We've sent a flyer out to every household in Burnaby with the information (on advanced polling and all the candidates.) I think that's helped."
But higher numbers at the advanced polls don't always translate to greater overall voter turnout.
Voter turnout in municipal elections is often notoriously low.
In the 2008 Burnaby election, only 23.49 per cent of eligible voters bothered to show up at the polls. For the previous elections, voter turnout was 25.57 per cent in 2005 and 33.38 per cent in 2002.
