EDIT: If the elections.ca website is down for you, see here
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
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).
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.]
Did someone take down 338canada.com or did we crash it?
E: Nope, it’s an attack. Apparently the French version works.
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.
When my special ballot hadn’t shown up the local election office said that there is still a process to vote in person, you have to sign a statement saying you have not voted yet. It showed up the next day but according to them there is a process but they don’t mention it unless it’s really needed. It was last Thursday so I was a bit worried I wouldn’t be able to vote at all.
Gen Z are in their phones too much, they just don’t get off the couch and vote, like Gen X or even boomers.
My daughter is 20 and in her second year of university. She came home to vote in the provincial election and she just voted in the federal election. If you raise your kids right and teach them how important voting is they will vote. She’s very politically engaged.
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Complete interprovincial trade by July?
And for those that are unaware, that isn’t a cigarette.
The NDP had 9 years to press the promise of PR and did nothing. Fuck em. I hope they lose party status.
It was a mistake (in obvious retrospect) to not settle for RCV. Singh made his weekend speech, “vote strategically to not split for CPC win”, which never has to be said under RCV. You can instead double down on why you should be first or 2nd choice, and voter only needs to agree to help you/party. You don’t get strategic voting instructions from mainstream media. You have to rely on actively searched for leaked polling data that may or may not be true.
That’s what I meant in long form. If they would have held the Libs to account, they could have got it. Instead they backed themselves into a corner and us into a two-party system. Fuck them in the 🐐 🍑 but this is what they get for not being the NDP Canadians needed.
Did they accomplish something? Sure, but not what we most need to avoid the pitfalls of a two-party ticket in the future. And the future is here.
PR is a non-starter for the liberals, their party would completely disappear if they passed it. That’s why they sabotaged/killed it even though they promised last time.
The NDP couldn’t push it through even if they wanted, all it would have done is forced an election into the Conservatives.
I’m not sold on PP/PR, and I understand RCV to help liberals more, but I disagree that LPC would do poorly under PP.
The Liberals only benefit from various PR type options if we assume that new parties wouldn’t form and only the existing parties are competing.
That wouldn’t be the case.
Doesn’t matter in the end though. I think Liberals have a large enough conservative (status quo) voterbase among WASPy city population that they would always be an at least German SDP level party, forming coalition governments left and right.
And if not, well, they’ve been the “default party of Canada” for long enough.
This. PR is a death knell for the bigger parties and they’ll fight it. Maybe. Mayyyybe that can be pushed for RCV. But I think Mr Singh didn’t have the poker hand for that and needed to play the dental framework instead. Continuing on that would have been great, but he overplayed his hand as it was and set Justin on the election course.
This time, if Mark wins the big bag and runs majority, we’ll see lots of minor improvements but nothing glamorous: his people will keep any big gains in the war chest and/or spent immediately on an independent euro-connected peacekeeper force.
We’re gonna see real estate shenanigans, though, same as cons, with bungalow boondoggles and sprawl for quick cheap housing to satisfy the numbers, and it’ll be a long time before we can claw ourselves farther away from the same Muni economic brink that Detroit fell over with its unsustainable bungalow sprawl. But keep in mind almost no one has a good plan to get good, dense, walkable mixed-use tower housing linked to trains because that’s a project with excellent returns at a pace too slow for the protestors. If Mark does anything foundational for that it’ll be noise amid the effort to placate the short-thinkers and stay in power for a better term next time.
We’re gonna see a lot of younger voters looking for the whizbang change the cons offer, not understanding the whole story, the motivations, and the history of every other time we got onboard there. Harper.
But if we can get steady gains, if we can improve ancillary healthcare coverage like the last term, if we can start the ground work for RCV which is more appealing to the incumbent giants, then we could see that in 5 years as a hard promise.
In those 5 years we need to teach kids what “the whole truth” looked like under Mr Harper and see whether they like the side of the box with the nutrient value - mmm, riboflavin - as much as the front of the box with the splashy graphics the offer of the free prize inside.
CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp
CANADA DOESN’T HAVE A SMALL pp
The numbers for Fanjoy have been holding above 2300 for over an hour, as writing this, 219 of 266 polls.
now only 3.5% apart at 225/266 polls. Could we skunk Mr Polyester?
Is the guy in the blue suit reading a book behind that sign or something?
Lurking American here. Curious who you think will win in your gut? I understand we won’t really know until results are counted. A couple of stories covered by American media (one definitely liberal leaning) I’ve read and listened to seems to think because of the odiousness of our president, liberals may take it? Do you think that’s likely?
Carney. Liberal Majority.
If enough people saw Trump’s rant this morning, Carney and Libs get a majority. If they didn’t, it could be tight.
Curious who you think will win in your gut?
I’m feeling it’s Carney but I don’t feel confident at all. Might be wishful thinking. Polling hasn’t been reliable enough for me to be at peace.
to think because of the odiousness of our president, liberals may take it? Do you think that’s likely?
Trump being disgusting seems to have nudged some in favor of Liberals, but it’s also not the major reason imho. Their strategy of getting rid of Trudeau and the consumer carbon pricing worked, because Conservatives spent the last 5 years yammering non-stop about these two things as their promise. They were literally calling it a “carbon tax election”. Scrambling to find a new platform, they started to pivot into generic Conservative bullshit like “Canada First”, and that’s where they ended up likening themselves to Trump even more.
Pretty much the only thing Conservatives have going for them now is chanting that Liberals have been in power for too long and “we need change”. But their platform is without ax-the-tax and fuck-trudeau was reduced to the same basic shit as ever: tough on crime, cheap gas, and transphobia.
Congrats! Looks like CBC is projecting a liberal win!
Honestly hard to tell, but I’d say a conservative minority is the most likely outcome.
My riding has voted NDP every time for as long as it has existed, but I expect it to flip conservative because the liberals will split the vote enough thanks to Carney’s “popularity” despite their candidate here having zero chance (seriously, PPC got more votes than the liberals did last election).
There was a long line out the door of the polling place, but they were all new registrations.
No line at my poll, so I was out in the rain again in about two minutes.
Hmmm that does not sound amazing. Maybe there was a lot of movement in and out of the riding …. Weird.
all new registrations
Wow. That makes me happy.
I had 3 people in front of me at my polling booth, got out in 10 minutes. I think that is the longest its taken me to vote in years. I always go first thing in the morning, lol. Hate lineups.
Longest wait I encountered was for the guy sitting by the door to look up from his phone. Registered and voted in moments, no lines.
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.
