It would depend very importantly on how the fixed election date then fell within the fiscal year. If an election were to take place early in a new fiscal year and the government of the day had been in a position to get either extended interim supply, as happened in 2004-05, or had full supply, as has happened in some other years, you would have little to no need for special warrants.
There were no special warrants in the case of 2004-05 because of the timing of the election. In most general elections, however, there is need for some use of special warrants with the elections just wherever they are through the year. This year was particularly challenging, of course, because we fell across two fiscal years. It had been about twenty years since the previous time we needed to seek Governor General special warrants to open a fiscal year. That's a rare occurrence.