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Electoral participation? Sabrina Bourgeois, Joanie Bouchard, Marjorie Prince, ‘Settler Ballots and Indigenous Voices: Exploring Electoral Behavior, Partisanship, and Political Attitudes among Indigenous Peoples in Canada’, The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2026

04Jul26

Abstract: We possess a limited understanding of Indigenous electoral behavior, partisanship, and political attitudes. Previous research has mainly focused on explaining Indigenous electoral abstention and has faced constraints, mainly because of small sample sizes. Drawing on data from both the 2019 and 2021 Canadian Election Studies, which encompass an unprecedented number of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis respondents, we explore Indigenous electoral behavior, partisanship, and attitudes toward public spending at the federal level in Canada. We show that while Indigenous respondents remain more likely to consider abstention, they can also be more supportive of third parties than their nonIndigenous counterparts and adopt views spanning the traditional left–right ideological spectrum. These findings encourage a redefinition of the expectations regarding the political behaviors and attitudes of Indigenous Peoples in order to fully engage with diverse political cultures.


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