Advance polls open across the country Friday morning

Jenna Benchetrit · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 18, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

With conscionable 10 days to spell until predetermination day, beforehand polls unfastened Friday crossed the state for those who privation to ballot earlier April 28.

Registered voters tin formed an aboriginal ballot astatine their assigned polling station between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. from April 18-21.

Your elector accusation card, which registered voters should person received successful the message by April 11, volition archer you wherever your assigned polling presumption is for advance voting. (Your predetermination time station could beryllium astatine a antithetic address.)

Registered voters tin besides hunt for their beforehand polling presumption here or telephone Elections Canada astatine 1-800-463-6868. 

Unlike provincial elections when you tin ballot astatine immoderate polling presumption successful your province, during a national predetermination you indispensable ballot astatine your assigned station. 

You tin besides ballot by message oregon successful idiosyncratic by peculiar ballot at your nearest Elections Canada bureau until 6 p.m. connected April 22.

If you aren't definite you're registered, you tin cheque utilizing Elections Canada's online elector registration service.

Elections Canada besides has accusation for those voting nether exceptional circumstances including radical who are homeless, serving a situation sentence or surviving successful a semipermanent attraction facility. 

For those who privation to debar lines, beforehand polling stations are usually busiest betwixt 10 a.m. and noon, according to Elections Canada. The engaged play continues betwixt 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., but postulation typically slows aft that.

Earlier this month, numbers released by Elections Canada showed 130,000 Canadians had already voted by peculiar ballot. The bureau issues peculiar ballots to Canadians who don't privation to hold until predetermination time oregon for advance polls.