Canada election: Voters across the country casting ballots to elect 45th Parliament

Mark Carney can’t ballot for Mark Carney

The main enactment leaders person each formed their ballots. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet each voted contiguous portion NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh formed his ballot during beforehand polls.

Carney was the past 1 to ballot this afternoon. But successful a weird twist, his sanction wasn’t connected the ballot helium cast.

That’s due to the fact that the Liberal person doesn’t unrecorded successful Nepean, the riding wherever helium is running.

Under Canada’s predetermination rules, you indispensable ballot successful the riding successful which you live, adjacent if you’re a campaigner successful a antithetic district. There is 1 objection to this rule. Incumbent candidates (and their contiguous family) tin ballot successful the riding they represent, adjacent if they don’t unrecorded successful that riding.

Carney formed his ballot successful Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester, wherever Liberal campaigner Mona Fortier is the incumbent.

Should Carney triumph a spot tonight, helium would beryllium capable to ballot for himself successful Nepean successful the adjacent election.

What elector turnout tin archer america

I’m a elder writer based successful Toronto. A beardown turnout connected predetermination time is simply a motion that voters are engaged with the contention and its issues. So what did those numbers look similar for the past fewer national elections?

In 2015, elector turnout spiked to its highest complaint since the aboriginal ‘90s, with much than 68.5 per cent of eligible voters casting their ballots. That twelvemonth was marked by a chaotic and unpredictable run cycle, and by caller initiatives to people and amended accessibility for underrepresented voters — including youth, who helped Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party cruise to a bulk government.

The 2019 contention saw 65.9 per cent of eligible voters travel out, and Trudeau’s authorities was downgraded to a minority. Turnout that twelvemonth was inactive a acold outcry from the historical lows seen a small much than a decennary earlier — lone 58.8 per cent of the electorate formed a ballot successful 2008.

The figures fell again successful 2021, erstwhile conscionable 62.5 per cent of those eligible voted. Only a tiny percent of radical who skipped the ballot named COVID-19 arsenic the main reason. Most said they conscionable weren’t funny successful politics, according to a StatsCan report.

There was besides a grounds turnout for beforehand polls

On apical of the spike successful mail-in ballots, Elections Canada said an estimated 7.3 cardinal radical formed a ballot during the four-day beforehand voting play from April 18-21.

It was a caller grounds and a astir 25 per cent summation from the fig of radical who voted successful beforehand polls successful the past national predetermination successful 2021.

Hi folks, I’m a elder writer with the authorities squad successful Ottawa. While section predetermination workers hole to number the ballots successful their ridings aft polls close, Elections Canada officials person been tallying mail-in ballots successful Ottawa during the past week.

Special ballots — those see message ballots from Canadians voting overseas oregon from extracurricular their riding, arsenic good arsenic ballots formed astatine subject bases, schoolhouse campuses and prisons — tin beryllium counted up to 2 weeks up of predetermination day.

Elections Canada says it has seen a spike successful the fig of peculiar ballots sent to its HQ. Over the past 10 days, 255,000 peculiar ballots person been tallied — much than the 185,000 that were returned for the 2021 predetermination — and much are inactive being counted.

Millions of radical are expected to ballot today

Polling stations adjacent connected a rolling basis, eastbound to west. If you are inactive successful enactment astatine closing time, enactment successful enactment and you’ll beryllium allowed to formed your ballot.

These are the closing times successful each region:

• Newfoundland: 8:30 p.m. section time.
• Atlantic: 8:30 p.m. section time.
• Eastern time: 9:30 p.m. section time.
• Central time: 8:30 p.m. section time.
• Central modular time: 7:30 p.m. section time.
• Mountain time: 7:30 p.m. section time.
• Pacific: 7 p.m. section time.

Welcome to predetermination night

Hi folks. I’m a elder writer connected the nationalist table and a subordinate of the squad that’s been bringing you unrecorded updates from the run way for the past 36 days.

We’ll beryllium unrecorded connected this leafage with results, erstwhile they commencement rolling in, arsenic good arsenic different quality from voting day. We anticipation you’ll enactment with us.

If you’re looking for our riding-by-riding results map, you tin find that here.