Here's what you need to know to vote in London today

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

After much than a period of campaigning successful ridings crossed the London region, it's clip for voters to person their say.

Here's what you request to cognize earlier heading to the canvass connected predetermination day.

Who tin vote

To ballot you request to beryllium astatine slightest 18 years old and a Canadian citizen.

When you tin vote

Polls open at 9:30 a.m. and adjacent astatine 9:30 p.m. ET successful eastbound Ontario. Elections Canada says they are usually busiest erstwhile they archetypal unfastened and aft 4 p.m.

Anyone successful enactment erstwhile polls adjacent volition beryllium capable to formed their ballot.

Where you tin vote

You tin find your polling station on your voting card, oregon via the Elections Canada website by entering your postal code.

"Under the national system, you indispensable ballot astatine the polling determination that is associated with your address," said Diane Benson, spokesperson for Elections Canada. 

Your polling station for February's Ontario provincial election may not beryllium the aforesaid for this 1 if you're present successful a antithetic riding altogether oregon the voting determination wasn't available. 

Your paper oregon postal codification cheque should springiness you accusation connected however accessible your polling spot is. If you privation much information, call 1-800-463-6868 oregon usage the teletypewriter enactment at 1-800-361-8935.

What to bring

If you received a voting paper successful the message you volition request to bring it and a portion of recognition bearing your sanction to your polling station.

If you did not person a voting paper you tin inactive registry astatine the polling station. You request to bring recognition bearing your sanction and existent residential address, specified arsenic a driver's licence oregon inferior bill.

Elections Canada has a full database of acceptable identification.

How to vote

An X is the modular people to marque for the campaigner of your choice. They'll person pencils connected hand.

If you marque a mistake you tin inquire for different ballot from the predetermination official.

Although immoderate provinces let voters to registry a protestation ballot by declining a ballot for a provincial election, there's nary authoritative mode to bash that successful a national election. The ballot would beryllium filed arsenic "rejected."

More voting accusation is disposable successful accessible formats.

How to travel results

CBC News volition person up-to-the-minute predetermination results and CBC.ca/London volition person sum of those local races.

You tin download the escaped CBC News app and motion up for section and nationalist alerts.

CBC's predetermination peculiar is acceptable to commencement astatine 6:30 p.m. ET. on CBCNews.ca, CBC Gem, CBC News Network, CBC Radio and CBC News YouTube and TikTok. 

Benson gave a reminder that the numbers released Monday nighttime by Elections Canada are not final. 

"Elections Canada doesn't state the winner. We conscionable enactment the numbers retired determination and these are preliminary results. We instrumentality a mates of days to validate the results astatine the returning office, conscionable successful case," she said. 

Advance voting

Elections Canada says an estimated grounds 7.3 cardinal Canadians formed their ballots during the beforehand voting play from April 18 to 21.

The past national predetermination successful 2021 saw 5.8 cardinal beforehand ballots, truthful this marks a 25 per cent increase. 

Elections Canada has besides seen a grounds fig of planetary electors applying to vote, according to Benson.