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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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.
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’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.
There’s a “weight your results” button that let’s you indicate how much you care about each question.
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.
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
Good information.
Given we live in a FPTP country, this is a worthwhile thing to consider as well: https://smartvoting.ca/ridings/federal-2025
You can look up your riding to see vote projections; you ultimately vote the system you have.
There’s also 338Canada’s per-riding projection. There’s the one by Eric Grenier too (CBC Poll Tracker) but it’s paywalled. I’ll post a copy.
One should check more than one to ensure there’s no funny business going on.
No harm to you at all, but I’m avoiding that site completely and advising everyone I work with and care about to stick with one of the other poll prediction sites like 338 if they have to use anything (scroll down for tl;dr).
Originally called polarispolls, smartvoting is run out of Polaris Entertainment.
When the smartvoting site was launched during the last Ontario election and started showing up on facebook/twitter/lemmy/etc, they didn’t include specific information about their (proprietary) methodology, but they’ve put together a pdf for the federal launch. If anyone cares to read it, it’s here.
Polaris Entertainment is made up of 3 people, afaict, and they’re all podcast influencers. The youtube link here is a joint podcast they did 5 months ago. In it, the guy who claims he made the smartvoting website suggests twice just in this one interview that the NDP should bow out federally. Pretty standard Hot Take these days so not particularly sus, except that it’s coming from a guy who made a vote recommendation website.
The person running the site used the royal WE a tonne when smartvoting was just one person during the Ontario election, and he now claims to have a “bipartisan data board.” The site also now has someone they’re naming as a general manager of the site, and she’s said the NDP is running a harassment campaign against them, which is affecting everyone’s mental health. Now, the same guy who claims he made the site says the reason he won’t name any of the people on his new board and won’t share any of his data is because of the NDP.
tl;dr: At best, smartvoting is a do-gooder project by someone trying to save us all from ourselves. With project 2025 rushing down the pipe and the mass media influence of the rightwing, I totally get it. People with fab intentions don’t always come up smelling like roses, and I never require Purity from my left allies. But at worst, smartvoting could be another disinfo campaign, claiming to be anti-conservative, openly interfering with our elections to amplify the appearance of division between Canadians on the left, when we’re already pretty cool with strategic voting and have been doing it when necessary for decades.
[disclaimer: this is the second comment I’ve left about being suspicious of this site since I made my lemmy account.]
Bringing your voter information card with a driver’s license or any other Canadian Gov’t issued card with photo, name and address is like having a FastPass for voting.
Interactive live results pages are clearly losing this election.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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…?
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.
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 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/
PP’s riding update as of approximately midnight EST:
Image Source: Globalnews
Alternative: National Post > Just the subframe for Carleton
Update about 00:35 EST
110/266polls reporting28,327votes reporting
Name Party votes Share Bruce Fanjoy LIB 14,52951.3%Pierre Poilievre* CON 12,81745.2%(source Globalnews)
Update about 01:05 EST
- 180/266 polls reporting
- 43,999 votes reporting
PP pulls up 0.5%
Name Party votes Share Bruce Fanjoy LIB 24,248Pierre Poilievre* CON 21,68845.6%Beth Prokaska NDP 7091.5%(source Globalnews)
Comment: Thy have counted 6709 votes in the past 30 minutes or so. This is the riding with 1 meter long ballots. What the fuck.
This might be the most interesting thing so far, actually, with the orange-blue swing votes in second place.
Poilievre could leave this as a freshly minted lobbyist, his first normal job.
Iirc he’s got a 5 yr wait before he can register as a lobbyist.
That would make sense. Hmm. A desk job at Harper & Associates I guess, then.
Hopefully it’s in the American regime and we never see him again. Opps…was that out loud
Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.
I mean, he’s very, very good at the firehose-of-soundbites style of campaigning. The dude has literally gotten elected for every year of his working life on it.
His concession had a lot of poise and savvy. He’ll never win me over but I was impressed with his cooperative tone. But I know he hasn’t changed, and I know it is not in his nature to cooperate.
And now he needs to get his resume ready for the first time ever.
Crap like him always have some cushy job lined up for them. Like Jason Kenney and Atco.
Saw that asshole political commentating on CBC last night. Can’t we be rid of him. I thought Alberta put him in a hole.
I hate his fucking guts to the core, and nothing I’m about to say should be viewed as forgiveness, but he does seem to genuinely be a useful shortsighted idiot with a side of abhramic god bigotry mixed in for good measure. Instead of being in on it as a member of Maple MAGA like I used to think.
He’s been consistent denouncing them…even late into his leadership while still in power he was. It’s why he rage quit after winning 51% leading to Smith…
The predictable to everyone but him outcome of Wildrose eating the “united” Progress Conservatives alive from within, seems to be the true story.
I just see Houston ramping up Kenney style politics again federally and see this election as a minor setback the the creeping and direct fascism our population lives with. Maybe I’m being cynical.
In the great words of Total Bastard Airlines, “Bu-Bye!”
And in the great words of a Canadian celebrity that I won’t name, who asked me over coffee looking for his first job, “What’s a resume”. As in let’s resume looking for a job.
he ran scared of the media
He grew up at the knee of Harper. He’s only doing what he was taught.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
I have mixed emotions today. I grieved for a few days after tRump was elected in 2024, processing the state and direction of the US. I’ve never had such a powerful reaction to election results before. I’m guarding myself for the possibility that PP forms a minority government. Improbable but possible. I would hurt and be worried, like I was after tRump last fall.
I voted in the advance polls over Easter weekend, when 7.2 million Canadians turned out iirc. I felt a greater than usual sense of civic duty amongst voters in the voting station - like people felt it especially important to have their voice heard in this election.
Voting typically inspires some pride in me about this country we are fortunate to call home. And although I’ve nervously been checking CBC News today for issues at polling stations, I also take pride in our voting process. The shit that goes on in the States in and around voting stations is obscene and very undemocratic. Thankfully I’ve read about no voting-related issues so far. (Our thoughts though are with the Filipino community and everyone affected by the tragedy in BC.)
Ideally, I’d like to have a Liberal minority with an NDP coalition. Second best would be a Liberal majority. I think that’s the most likely outcome. For ABC reasons (especially now that C is MAGA-lite), I’d accept it.
tRump’s comments today - presumably undermining PP’s votes more than anything - surprised me. As did some comments DoFo made about PP and Carney over the weekend. It made me realize that the Conservative party leaders (Marlaina, schMoe, DoFo, PP) in this country have quite different relationships with the other adjacent political forces (i.e., Carney and tRump).
I’m looking forward to election coverage tonight! And I hope to breathe a sigh of relief soon. Don’t @#$% this one up, Canada!
Going to keep myself in the dark until tomorrow morning. Good luck Canada’s democracy!
I envy your willpower. My anxiety wouldn’t let me sleep tonight without at least checking how things are going.
I just have no patience to listen to “what if” the whole night.
11:50 p.m. EDT: Elections Canada confirms website issues not security-related
In an updated email statement to CTV News, Elections Canada confirmed the website’s technical issues were not security related.
Issues accessing the website began at 7 p.m. EDT, according to the organization.
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.
