How to find your candidates: How to find details about your local polling stations and advanced voting: Voter cards? The second way is to register online using the Online Voter Registration Service. You’ll be asked to include your name, address, date of birth, and gender. The site also allows you to check if you’re already registered and allows you to update your address. Once registered, keep an eye out for your voter information card in the mail. The card will have information on when and where to vote. You don’t need a voter card to vote. A driver’s licence or any government-issued photo ID with your address is enough. If your ID doesn’t show your address (e.g., health card, passport, or student ID), bring a bank statement, utility bill, or rental agreement with your name and address. Elections Canada provides a full list of acceptable ID. Vote in advance Voting by mail Other ways to vote
Go to www.electionscanada.ca to find out the names and contact information for candidates in your riding. You’ll need to enter your postal code or the name of the riding under “voter information service”. You can see the top candidates for each riding at 338canada.com. The search window works if you know the name of your riding. If not, click on “choose your region” to get a list for your province or region.
You can find out where to vote either with a voter card or go to elections.ca at any time and enter your postal code to see the location of the office in your riding and your assigned polling stations.
If you have had the same address for a long time you will most likely get a voter card without registering. One way to register in advance is by checking “yes” to the question in the Elections Canada section in your Canada Revenue Agency tax return.
According to Elections Canada, advanced polling days include Friday, April 18; Saturday, April 19; Sunday, April 20; and Monday, April 21 at your assigned polling station. Information on where you can find advance poll stations and operating hours will be available online and on your voter information card. You can also vote early at any Elections Canada office across the country until Tuesday, April 22, at 6 p.m.
Those voting in advance by mail must apply by Tuesday, April 22 at 6 p.m. and return their special ballot by mail or in person at their local Elections Canada office before polls close on election day.
University students can go to a Vote on Campus office to submit their ballot, and Canadians who live in long-term care facilities will be able to vote there. Canadians who need special assistance or face barriers to registering and voting should contact their local Elections Canada office.
