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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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/
I wonder if the election will be over as soon as the polls close in Ontario.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The powers that be decided this election is paper ballots only
More secure.
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.
I just have no patience to listen to “what if” the whole night.
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.
First result has come in!
God bless Labrador.
“We denied a Liberal NDP coalition.”
NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.It’s not even a coalition.
Coallitons are when the party with the most seats (but not a majority) doesn’t form government because the other parties all work together to form government.
When the party with the most seats (but not majority) forms government with the help of another party on non confidence votes , it’s just a minority government.
They just try to scare people with the coalition talk to try and make it seem nefarious, such as when it almost happened to Harper, but it’s a legitimate part of how our government works.
There was a point while votes were being counted tonight, we could have theoretically had a con+bq coalition government.
Edit: and even as of right now, the cons+bq+ndp could form a coalition, but I can’t imagine those 3 parties ever working together other than to trigger an election via vote of no confidence.
Not quite true. Coalitions are typically starting with the party with the largest vote count to invite others into coalition talks. If they find willing partners that make up a majority and there are enough commonalities between all the coalition partners they enter into a contract. And each party in the coalition participate in the government with ministers and everything.
And the BQ wouldn’t form a coalition with the current CPC, they would need to get their house in order and move left a lot for that to happen.
There was a point where the BQ could have been the only party keeping the Liberals in power though, the NDP and Greens didn’t have enough seats to help them pass a vote, but I just woke up and we’re back to the same situation as before the election… Would be funny if the Liberals get 171 and the Greens also hold the balance of power.
I wonder what May would ask for if the NDP refused to support the Liberals in that situation on something and she was the deciding vote.
Well, sure.
But the point was the timing of the statement. After he said that they prevented a Liberal NDP coalition, the NDP, seconds later, gained a seat, allowing a Liberal NDP coalition of 172 seats, if they chose to do so. If they did a coalition now they would have 175.I get that, and it was hilarious, but there was never going to be a coalition government which was my main point. He was using the wrong language intentionally.
Yeah. The staying on as leader thing can be put down to the “close loss” speech being written ahead of time. Not sure why he didn’t change that part, though.
He could still get his seat, technically.
That was awesome.
If you don’t know who to vote for, I recommend using vote compass to see how closely you align to the parties.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
I got the same result for the same reason.
I think the parties not releasing their platform until so late makes it incorrect.
It’s a good idea, but not good this election.
There’s a “weight your results” button that let’s you indicate how much you care about each question.
Isn’t the right trying to tell people what race and genders are valid…
Yes. I feel like polls such as Vote Compass are hampered by the fact that they take right wing policies at face value rather than what they actually do once in power.
Very much agreed
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
They’ve introduced a feature at the end where you can choose to weight your answers, so the social issues you don’t really care about can be weighted
0and get a more accurate result.Ain’t got time for that. I did a few questions and it did change the result dramatically.
Just got this beautiful flyer hand delivered by the CPC to help me vote against the CPC:
Did someone take down 338canada.com or did we crash it?
It’s been down for me on and off since yesterday
Nope, it’s an attack
I do not know that you should call it an attack, I am sure their servers are not used to the turn out and therefore the people just learning about the elections.
I’m basing that on the comment by the owner of 338canada. Also they use CloudFlare so it’s unlikely normal load could kill it. Instead I’m guessing someone DDoSed the actual server, behind CF.
It’s working for me.
Interactive live results pages are clearly losing this election.
Are the early polling votes from last week not counted already? Because they’ve called the election for liberals already but the total vote count is less than the 7.6 million that voted early…?
Are the early polling votes from last week not counted already
In one province they were allowed to start counting those 6 hours before polls closed. In all others, they could start 2 hours before, but it is optional and up to each riding’s returning officer. So some ridings have it, some don’t. CBC made it sound like they don’t even know which ones have and which have not.
CBC said it’s riding by riding the order they count the ballots.
Yup. At least one riding started counting the early votes 6 hours before the polls closed. Usually it’s about an hour before.
I think that was Carleton because they have 91 candidates on the ballot, so they had to get a survival dispensation to start early.
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.
Here’s the two main poll aggregator’s per-riding projections for all of those considering voting strategically:
- 338Canada. Use the French version if the main one is down. The site is under attack
- Eric Grenier (CBC Poll Tracker)
No pollster will be able to predict a ridding, there is just not enough information collected per ridding.
True. That’s why I’m looking at aggregators, as well as pollsters. Just in case the one I look at is way off for some reason.
CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp
CANADA DOESN’T HAVE A SMALL pp
Lmao PP’s on his way to lose his own riding
Still not called, but a pretty wide gap.
Imagine if he came in 91st. It’d be a heritage moment up there with balcony guy
Hahahaha that’d be incredible
Watching the CBC feed on YouTube. It says only 10 of 266 polls reported, but Fanjoy (what an apt name) is ahead by over 50%. That’s pretty incredible.
Also wtf? 91 candidates? In a country with FPTP‽
It’s a joke/protest setup by the Longest Ballot Committee ironically in opposition to FPTP and definitely isn’t the norm haha
Oh that’s brilliant! I love it!
