How to cast your vote on or before election day (Elections Canada)

voter information for Federal election

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VOTE EARLY AT ANY ELECTION CANADA OFFICE – March 23 to April 22, 2025

There are around 500 Elections Canada offices open across the country.  You can vote at any one of them up to April 22, 2025 at 6pm (Eastern Time).

Elections Canada Offices are open 7 days a week:

Monday to Friday                           9:00am to 9:00pm

Saturday                                          9:00pm to 6:00pm

Sunday                                             12:00pm to 4:00pm

Find the Elections Canada office nearest you.

Voting will be done by the special ballot process.

EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS

VOTE BY MAIL – Apply by April 22

You can vote by mail if you apply by April 22, 6 p.m. (Eastern Time).

Fill out the form here.

ADVANCED POLL VOTING – April 18th to April 21st, 2025

Advanced Poll locations in Hamilton are open from April 18th to April 21st from 9:00am to 9:00pm (Eastern Time).

The address of your polling place is on the voter information card you should receive by mail.

You can also find the address of your advance poll voting location here.

VOTE ON ELECTION DAY – Monday, April 28, 2025

You can find the address of your election day polling place here.

Candidate debates

Hamilton candidates by riding

Hamilton Mountain

Hamilton Mountain covers most of the city’s south between the Niagara Escarpment and the transmission line south of Rymal Road between Garth Street and Glover Rd. Map

Hamilton East – Stoney Creek

This riding represented the city’s east end, Stoney Creek and Winona. Map

Hamilton West – Ancaster – Dundas

This riding includes most of West Mountain in Hamilton, as well as areas south of the Canadian National Railway, such as Ancaster and Dundas, and communities like Copetown and Westdale. Map

Flamborough – Glanbrook – Brant North

The Flamborough-Glanbrook riding covers most of Hamilton’s surrounding rural areas and includes communities like Waterdown, Rockton, Binbrook, and Mount Hope, as well as the new boundary area of Brant North. Map

Get Informed on the issues

With the federal election close at hand, we understand many voters may not feel like they have enough time to get to know their candidates or the different campaign platforms. Here are some of the resources we’ve come across that you might find helpful identified by issue:

Poverty Elimination

• 2025 Federal Election series: Thriving – Wellesley Institute’s thriving framework outlines the resources needed to meet the physical, social and psychological health needs of everyone living in Canada

• Election 2025 | Canadian Paediatric Society – Pressing issues are child and family poverty, and health human resources

• National Campaign 2000 – End Child and Family Poverty

• Ontario Campaign 2000 – End Child and Family Poverty

• Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy – Government of Canada

• Dimensions of Poverty Hub – Statistics Canada

• National Advisory Council on Poverty – Government of Canada

• A Time for Urgent Action:  The 2024 Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty – Government of Canada

Food Security

1 in 4 people in Canada are food insecure. Here are some resources to learn more and advocate for this issue.​​

• No More Scraps – Advocacy campaign from Community Food Centres Canada
  

Housing and Needs for Renters

• Hamilton Housing Crisis: 2010-2023 Trends – SPRC Hamilton – Hamilton Housing Crisis: 2010-2023 Trends in Rental Housing, SPRC Hamilton Report by Sara Mayo, Social Planner

• 2025 Federal Election Housing Platform – Advocacy resource on community housing from the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA)

• Protect Canadian Housing from Trump’s Trade War – Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness

• Ending Homelessness and Housing Need in Canada – Vote Housing advocates for strong federal commitments to address Canada’s housing crisis and ensure everyone has a safe place to call home

• Federal Election 2025 – Canadian Housing & Renewal Association

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

• 2SLGTBQIA+ Rainbow Equality Campaign – Momentum Canada

• Drag the Vote – Momentum Canada

• Vote with Pride – Egale

Nonprofit Sector

Imagine Canada has collaborated with nonprofits across the country to develop a policy platform which outlines the key priorities for the sector in the first 100 days of Parliament. This roadmap is a call to policymakers to support the organizations driving real change.

📖 Read the platform & advocate for a stronger nonprofit sector. 

Party Platforms and Commentary

Here are some resources on promises made by the parties:

• Promise tracker: What the parties are pitching ahead of the Canadian election – National | Globalnews.ca

• Compare the election promises of Canada’s major parties

• ​Canada election 2025: What parties are promising

• Imagine Canada Analysis of Party Platforms 

• Election 2025 – Feed Ontario Election Platform Tracker 2025 Document

Other Helpful Information

Here are some other helpful resources:

• Federal Election Readiness For Nonprofits – Imagine Canada

• Vote Pop-Up 2025 – Democratic Engagement Exchange

• Policies for Everyone – Demand Better

• Federal Advocacy – Ontario Nonprofit Network

• Census Aggregator – Data from the 2021 Census at the Federal Electoral District (riding) level

• Platform Crunch:  Tax Cuts are Alive and Well in This Federal Election, But Who Benefits? – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives