Voter Information
Voter Information
Make Sure You're Ready to Vote
The most important thing you can do right now is make sure your voter information is up to date.
Elections Ontario is responsible for maintaining the Permanent Register of Electors for Ontario, also known as the Voters’ List. The Voters’ List, is a list of individuals eligible to vote in provincial and local municipal elections in Ontario. Online voter registration through Elections Ontario has now closed.
Eligible voters can confirm their voter registration status with our Am I on the Voters' List form.
To add or remove a name or correct information on the Voters list, please fill out the Application to Amend Voters List form and submit it to the Township Administration building for further processing with the Clerk.
Voting Period
The Voting Period runs from October 13, 2026 at 9:00am. until October 26, 2026 at 8:00pm., utilizing internet and telephone voting.
If you require assistance in person or need to submit an Application to Amend the Voters' List, you may visit the Voter Assistance Centre at the Township Administration Building, 89 Loveys Street, Hickson:
- Tuesday October 13, 2026: 9:00am to 4:30pm
- Wednesday October 14, 2026 to Friday October 16, 2026 – 8:30am to 4:30pm
- Monday October 19, 2026 to Friday October 23, 2026 – 8:30am to 4:30pm
- Saturday October 24, 2026 – 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Monday October 26, 2026 – 10:00am to 8:00pm
Voter Information Letters
Voter Information Letters will be mailed in late September. When yours arrives, be sure to keep it in a safe place, as it contains important information about your voting options, including everything you'll need to cast your ballot online.
Didn't receive a Voter Information Letter?
If you do not receive your Voter Information Letter, or if it is lost or damaged, you can request a replacement during the voting period.
You must bring an acceptable piece of identification showing your name and qualifying East Zorra-Tavistock address.
As of January 1, 2024, the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is no longer responsible for collecting voter information for local elections. MPAC is legislatively required to collect school support information.
You can update your school support designation through MPAC’s Online School Support Tool.
As a property owner in Ontario, you are required to support a school system, even if you do not have children or your children are not currently attending school. This information can be found on your Property Assessment Notice.
Learn more about school support by visiting MPAC.
You can use Elections Ontario’s Voter Registration application to confirm, update or add your information if you:
- have changed your name or address
- own or rent a new property
- no longer own or rent a property
- want to remove your information
If you or your spouse own or rent property other than your home address in Ontario, you may be eligible to vote in more than one municipal election.
Visit Elections Ontario’s website to learn more about voter information, and other options including:
- removing yourself from the Register
- removing a deceased person from the Register
- adding yourself to the list of Future Voters (if you’re under 18 years of age)
A person is entitled to vote in a municipal election if, on Voting Day, they:
- Reside in the local municipality, or are the owner or tenant of land in the municipality, or the spouse of such owner or tenant; and
- Are a Canadian citizen;
- Are at least 18 years old; and
- Are not prohibited from voting under the Municipal Elections Act or otherwise prohibited by law.
Resident Elector
A resident elector is a person who lives and is eligible to vote in that municipality’s election. A person is only allowed to have one residence.
A person’s residence is the permanent lodging place to which, whenever absent, he or she intends to return.
The following rules apply in determining a person’s residence:
- A person may only have one residence at a time;
- The place where a person’s family resides is also their residence, unless they moves elsewhere with the intention of changing their permanent lodging place;
- If a person has no other permanent lodging place, the place where they occupy a room or part of a room as a regular lodger, to which they habitually return, is their residence.
Non-Resident Elector
If a person lives in one municipality but owns or rents property in another municipality, then they are a non-resident elector and able to vote in that municipality’s election.
Spouse of Non-Resident Elector
If a person lives in one municipality and qualifies as a spouse of a non-resident elector, then they are able to vote in that municipality’s election.
Students
A person may have residences in two local municipalities at the same time if the person lives in one of the local municipalities in order to attend an education institution but not with the intention of changing their permanent lodging place, and the person’s permanent lodging place is in the other local municipality.
Therefore, students can vote in the municipality where they attend school and they can also vote in the municipality where they live.
Trailer Owners – Campgrounds
Trailer owners in campgrounds are tenants of the campground – therefore, they are potentially eligible electors. Under a timeshare contract, to be eligible, the person must be entitled to use the land on Voting Day, or for a period of six weeks or more during the calendar year in which the election is held.
The following cannot vote:
- A person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in penal or correctional institution.
- A corporation.
- A person acting as executor or trustee or in any other representative capacity, except as a voting proxy in accordance with section 44 of the Municipal Elections Act.
- A person who was convicted of the corrupt practice described in subsection 90(3), if Voting Day in the current election is less than five years after Voting Day in the election in respect of which he or she was convicted.
The Ontario Register of Future Voters is designed for eligible 16 and 17-year-olds so that they will automatically be added to the Register when they turn 18.
Visit RegisterToVoteON.ca to learn about eligibility, ID requirements and how to register as a future voter.
For additional information about your rights and responsibilities as an elector in this year's Municipal and School Board Elections, please visit the Province of Ontario's 2026 Voters' Guide.