It's so easy to follow the election results in the media these days - turn on your TV, listen to your radio, or reach for your phone. But it wasn't always that way. 

TVO has a look at the way people used to find out about the results of a vote in the days before there was any electronic media and in the early days of radio. Turns out you not only had to go out to make your "X", you also had to go out to discover who won. 

And when radio came along, so did the crowds.

"During the 1923 election, the Toronto Daily Star arranged for 26 remote locations where people could hear the results via its new radio station CFCA, along with a broadcasting car sent to the Earlscourt neighbourhood. The locations included gas stations, hardware stores, radio retailers, and the Central YMCA. People were afraid of cheering in case they drowned out the announcer.

The paper, which described its network as lighting up “scores and scores of bonfires of magic speech,” estimated around 25,000 people stopped by the remotes.

As more homes became equipped with radios, the downtown celebrations faded away. And there was another looming technology on the horizon. Radio experts interviewed by the Toronto Daily Star in 1931 suggested that television would kill off the festivities, as voters could watch candidates speak from the comfort of their homes."

Imagine having to head to a gas station for election results today. 

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