Federal election advance polling begins today, continues through long weekend

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 18, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Advance polling for the 45th national predetermination begins Friday.

Polls volition tally Friday to Monday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. CST. Find accusation astir wherever you tin ballot connected the Elections Canada website.

On Tuesday, determination volition beryllium voting successful hospitals and different acute attraction facilities, arsenic good arsenic by peculiar ballot astatine Elections Canada offices. Tuesday is besides the deadline to use to ballot by mail.

So far, determination person been fewer ways to ballot up of predetermination time connected April 28.

From Sunday to Wednesday, determination were beforehand polls connected campuses, a programme meant to promote younger electors to vote. In the past, radical aged 18 to 24 person had the lowest elector turnout rates.

The programme operated astatine much than 100 campuses this year.

There were besides polls acceptable up astatine subject bases and units, arsenic good arsenic a accidental for incarcerated electors to ballot connected April 16.

To vote, electors request to amusement identification. For much accusation connected which ID volition work, sojourn the Elections Canada website.

In an interrogation with CBC, University of Saskatchewan adjunct governmental prof Daniel Westlake said it's hard to measure however elector turnout tin impact the predetermination up of the results.

"The radical we astir apt cognize the slightest astir are radical that don't spell and vote, thin not to reply surveys either," helium said.

"I conjecture the happening to accidental is that for any benignant of issue, the person the riding, the much these kinds of things connected the borderline volition matter."