Election Information
I recommend that you check the links yourself! I’ve copied some of the information below:
Ways to vote
See this page for full details.
Vote on election day (April 28)
- Check the hours for your timezone
- Check your polling station on your voter information card or by using the Voter Information Service website.
Vote by mail
- This method is for those who requested mail-in ballots a while back.
- Make sure that you get in your ballot on time: elections.ca/voting-by-mail
- uses the special ballot process
Special Ballots
Remember: Once you apply to vote by special ballot, you can’t change your mind and vote at advance polls or on election day.
See this page for deadlines for when you can apply for one, and when they must receive it by. It also has information on what you must do differently when filling out this ballot: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=vote&dir=spe&document=index&lang=e
If you are having any issues, reach out to your local Elections Canada office to know your options.
Data on your district:
Find your riding, your local Elections Canada office, and your candidates by using the search on the homepage: elections.ca
You can also use the detailed search at: elections.ca/scripts/vis/FindED
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Well, the Greens were able to keep a seat, so there’s that.
Could change, but as of right now, they’re not leading anywhere.
Where are you seeing that?
I saw it momentarily on the map but it disappeared. FWIW Mike Morrice in Kitchener Centre has a very good shot at keeping his seat. Very few polls reporting there at this time
I was hoping it was him.
I used to work in his riding and it was reassuring seeing all the green election signs outside of houses. Knowing that people were realizing they are not stuck voting for the same two parties over and over.
Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
he ran scared of the media
He grew up at the knee of Harper. He’s only doing what he was taught.
And now he needs to get his resume ready for the first time ever.
Crap like him always have some cushy job lined up for them. Like Jason Kenney and Atco.
Saw that asshole political commentating on CBC last night. Can’t we be rid of him. I thought Alberta put him in a hole.
I hate his fucking guts to the core, and nothing I’m about to say should be viewed as forgiveness, but he does seem to genuinely be a useful shortsighted idiot with a side of abhramic god bigotry mixed in for good measure. Instead of being in on it as a member of Maple MAGA like I used to think.
He’s been consistent denouncing them…even late into his leadership while still in power he was. It’s why he rage quit after winning 51% leading to Smith…
The predictable to everyone but him outcome of Wildrose eating the “united” Progress Conservatives alive from within, seems to be the true story.
I just see Houston ramping up Kenney style politics again federally and see this election as a minor setback the the creeping and direct fascism our population lives with. Maybe I’m being cynical.
In the great words of Total Bastard Airlines, “Bu-Bye!”
And in the great words of a Canadian celebrity that I won’t name, who asked me over coffee looking for his first job, “What’s a resume”. As in let’s resume looking for a job.
I mean, he’s very, very good at the firehose-of-soundbites style of campaigning. The dude has literally gotten elected for every year of his working life on it.
His concession had a lot of poise and savvy. He’ll never win me over but I was impressed with his cooperative tone. But I know he hasn’t changed, and I know it is not in his nature to cooperate.
Bringing your voter information card with a driver’s license or any other Canadian Gov’t issued card with photo, name and address is like having a FastPass for voting.
I have mixed emotions today. I grieved for a few days after tRump was elected in 2024, processing the state and direction of the US. I’ve never had such a powerful reaction to election results before. I’m guarding myself for the possibility that PP forms a minority government. Improbable but possible. I would hurt and be worried, like I was after tRump last fall.
I voted in the advance polls over Easter weekend, when 7.2 million Canadians turned out iirc. I felt a greater than usual sense of civic duty amongst voters in the voting station - like people felt it especially important to have their voice heard in this election.
Voting typically inspires some pride in me about this country we are fortunate to call home. And although I’ve nervously been checking CBC News today for issues at polling stations, I also take pride in our voting process. The shit that goes on in the States in and around voting stations is obscene and very undemocratic. Thankfully I’ve read about no voting-related issues so far. (Our thoughts though are with the Filipino community and everyone affected by the tragedy in BC.)
Ideally, I’d like to have a Liberal minority with an NDP coalition. Second best would be a Liberal majority. I think that’s the most likely outcome. For ABC reasons (especially now that C is MAGA-lite), I’d accept it.
tRump’s comments today - presumably undermining PP’s votes more than anything - surprised me. As did some comments DoFo made about PP and Carney over the weekend. It made me realize that the Conservative party leaders (Marlaina, schMoe, DoFo, PP) in this country have quite different relationships with the other adjacent political forces (i.e., Carney and tRump).
I’m looking forward to election coverage tonight! And I hope to breathe a sigh of relief soon. Don’t @#$% this one up, Canada!
Going to keep myself in the dark until tomorrow morning. Good luck Canada’s democracy!
I envy your willpower. My anxiety wouldn’t let me sleep tonight without at least checking how things are going.
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It’s looking like people like you made the difference, based on the vibe of the early results. It’s close.
Edit: It’s pulling apart as things go on.
A noble sacrifice.
I held my nose and did it too. I am the leftiest lefty that ever lefted but the NDP was not really an option this time.
I feel the same, haha
I said I’d never vote Liberal again and stay NDP hard liner after vote reform was kaboshed. No matter anyone’s opinion on that, it was why I voted Justin once.
But here we are.
After this is all done, we need to rebuild the left in this country. We need the NDP to be putting forth bold policy proposals to neutralize the far right populist appeal of the fucking conservative ghouls.
They need to replace Singh from the leadership … I have a lot of respect for him and I do appreciate him but you have to be realistic, the majority of the country is still very conservative Eurocentric minded population. The majority of the country do not identify with a politician with a turban. I have no problem with it but there are still many, many people out there that will never support someone like this. Singh also brings in the controversy and troubles of the Sikh / Indian controversies.
I hate to say it and hate to admit it but the only way that the NDP can grow is for the leadership to be replaced by someone who is white but at the very least someone who does not identify with a specific ethnic / religious group by wearing a piece of clothing to identify themselves.
I am a lifelong NDP supporter … I voted for them in my riding here in northern Ontario. But I do know from personal experience and from talking to people in my area that the greatest stumbling block for them voting NDP is that they just can’t identify with a leader who represents a very small ethnic minority in the country.
No, just no. Singh is as Canadian as the rest of us, period. And for any racialized Canadians reading this, that goes for you too as far as I and millions of other Canadians are concerned. We don’t need to court the votes of racists and we should never feel like we ought to appease them; they either get educated or they spend the rest of their lives voting for regressives. The leadership of our diverse country ought to be reflected in our leaders and the days of trying to middle ground with regressives ought to be put firmly behind us.
I’m Indigenous Canadian and I’m a big brown long haired native guy … you can’t get any more obviously racialized a person as me.
I’m also a lifelong NDP supporter … I’ve been part of the party since I started actively voting just over 30 years ago and I even joined in election campaigns for the party in my region over the years.
And from those experiences … we can’t fool ourselves of what the dynamics of the country still are. You are right we should think the way you describe … that is what we should aspire to … but the reality is that that kind of mentality will only occur in decades or centuries, it won’t change any time soon or within our lifetime. I would love for it change sooner rather than later but that isn’t realistic.
One of the troubling things I noticed in the NDP was in union and worker supporters … as a group most workers and unions will support a party like the NDP … but as individuals they are more than likely to vote for conservative. They support socialist ideals as workers and conservative beliefs at home.
Which is why I honestly believe that at this point in history, we need a plain old older white male to lead the party … if Jack Layton had survived, we would have probably had him as Prime Minister at this point … it’s so sad that he left us before he had a chance to do anything.
I know you weren’t saying you think like that. I’m just disagreeing with you about tactics.
Singh wasn’t going to be able to overcome the polarization that Trump created. IN any normal election, he’s fine. But nobody wanted to chance a Polievre administration maple magaing our way through the next 3.7 years.
The majority of the country do not identify with a politician with a turban.
The majority of the country identify with a very narrow profile, and it excludes many marginalized groups that we both know need no more exclusion. So I am super-conflicted with the reasoning being “he’s not like most Canadians” being a reason to replace him, but I see where it absolutely will/has affected his image with the more rural regions.
We had a period of turmoil during Justin’s last run that has Mr Singh narrowly-focused on a particular segment of the population, and it was hard not to believe that it was to the detriment of the rest of the country. I worry he will appear to put one group before the rest, and we really need to believe all groups are on an equal footing before he can hope for support from the Rurals.
And to engage peoples hard, negative feelings. The conservatives keep capturing the NDP’s natural base because they refuse to actually reflect their feelings and perceptions back to them. This whole “let’s get along, and cancel your bank fees” thing doesn’t resonate.
We need European style left populism, like Mélenchon in France, or Corbyn in the UK. The mainstream media are going to call us hippie socialists no matter how “costed” and “responsible” our platform is. We need to be going for the jugular.
Very much so.
That and we need electoral reform. The NDP bled hard into liberal support as people wanted to avoid electing conservatives. FPTP will never lead to an NDP government.
We also need a better NDP leader. I like Jagmeet but he has not succeeded at this.
We also need a better NDP leader. I like Jagmeet but he has not succeeded at this.
He’s in third place in his riding and it’s looking like he’ll lose his seat.
Jusg saying, same goes for PP in his riding in Ontario. He can suck a lemon.
Maxime Bernier lost his riding as well. That’s 3 federal party leaders who lost their seats.
It’s gotta be a record.
Charlie Angus should have stayed and taken over NDP leadership.
He was a candidate to head the party at one time, but they decided on Singh instead. Now he’s too tired to try again. But I do wonder about the parallel universe where things turned out the other way around.
Charlie is Canada’s version of Bernie Sanders, ie: he’d never be allowed to lead the party.
Such is the way of politiks these days.
we need to rebuild the left
Well, memberships are cheap and it’s easy to get involved at the riding level where you can vote for the local leadership at the AGM, help make policy at conventions, vote for the leader,… Membership has its privileges.
I’m more centrist but I also want a strong left.
I want good working class Canadians to rally back to a strong NDP and unions and see their influence grow, and I want that to start pushing our policies back towards effective social policy.
It does need to be a balance, but I don’t see how for example small businesses not having to provide health insurance to compete is bad for businesses. It’s a burden off of them and good for employees.
Private healthcare mostly helps the big entrenched companies, and that’s bad for an economy.
Looks like everything is in and it ended up with Liberals 169 seats, three short of a majority.
Although jeez, I can’t imagine there isn’t a recount in the riding where the difference was literally 12 votes out of 21,000. Crazy close.
Either way, I’m guessing the 7 NDP and 1 Green basically become de facto Liberals to create a pseudo majority since at least that way they’ll have some influence and it wouldn’t be in their best interest to topple the government and go through all this again.
I just have no patience to listen to “what if” the whole night.
I wonder if the election will be over as soon as the polls close in Ontario.
Quebec and Ontario
An often noted oddity of the Canadian population is to draw a horizontal line at Windsor Ontario and a vertical line at Huntsville Ontario … everything south and east of that line is 90% of the Canadian population.
Kind looks like we’ll need to wait all night based on the initial results coming out of the alantic.
The powers that be decided this election is paper ballots only, so no counting machines to make it go faster.
I mean I get it, but the results will take longer than normal.
Honestly for the best, counting machines are potentially vulnerable to foreign interference.
Not really tho. That’s an American thing. Our elections are managed by an independent Elections Canada, not by individual parties. We protect our right to vote pretty well.
But to avoid any ‘argument’ that the Cons might throw up, Elections Canada decided this would be best.
Anything that runs source code can be hacked. I’m not talking about elections canada or one of the parties influencing the votes. I’m talking about foreign state sponsored cyber warfare undermining our election.
If it’s online. The vote counting machines are not.
You can 100% install hardware back doors. Anyone that says something can’t be hacked has never worked on secure products before. There is always a way in. Being disconnected from a network isn’t always enough.
If it’s online. The vote counting machines are not.
Many times a voting machine in America - not ‘online’ - still was reachable on wifi or bluetooth, and was thus very vulnerable.
For more info, talk to the people who secure America’s election, if you can find them after they were fired.
The powers that be decided this election is paper ballots only
More secure.
I recall in 2015 that when Atlantic Canada went solid red that was enough to show that the Liberals won entirely and the rest was just waiting the night out.
CBC reporting that some people are finding that the elections Canada website is not working.
If you find the Election Canada Website is down for you try checking here
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/
Complete interprovincial trade by July?
And for those that are unaware, that isn’t a cigarette.
First result has come in!
God bless Labrador.
Elections Canada website down during peak voting time? Yikes.
Most likely a DDoS. 338Canada got DDoSed over the last 24 hours.
Russia playing games again?
We don’t need Russia to DDoS shit. We have plenty technically able cons in Canada that can do it.
Elections Canada website down during peak voting time? Yikes.
I respect the people at Elections Canada, but not their funding. I’m glad we do not use voting machines but instead still count votes by hand with people watching like a hawk.
