Voters

You can check, update and confirm that your information is accurately recorded for upcoming municipal elections by visiting Elections Ontario. You can login using your full name, date of birth and property address or assessment roll number. The databases for municipal elections are separate from those used for provincial elections. Updating this information will help to ensure that municipal Voters’ Lists are accurate and up-to-date in preparation for the next municipal and school board elections.

Voting in Provincial Elections

Ontario provincial elections are held to elect Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. When an election is called, electors (a person who is eligible to vote in an Ontario provincial and/or local election) vote for a candidate to represent their electoral district. The candidate with the greatest number of votes in each district becomes its MPP. The political party with the greatest number of elected MPPs usually forms the new provincial government.

Elections Ontario administers provincial general elections and by-elections in Ontario. Ontario is currently divided into 124 electoral districts. Each electoral district has a local election office, which opens once an election or by-election has been called. A Returning Officer administers an election in an electoral district.

To be eligible to vote, you must be:

18 years of age or older;
a Canadian citizen; and
a resident of Ontario.

Elections Ontario offers many ways to vote, including voting early and by mail.

Once an election is called in your electoral district, you can use our Voter Information Service to find your voting information about when and where to vote. This information will also be on your voter information card, which you will receive in the mail if you are registered to vote.

Use Voter Registration to confirm, update, add or remove your information from the Register. You will need to provide one piece of ID and/or other required documentation.

Online & Telephone Voting Guide

The video below will give you in introduction to the Simply Voting Online and Telephone voting system.

Persons Eligible to Vote

A person is entitled to be an elector at an election held in a local municipality if, on voting day, he or she,

(a) resides in the local municipality or is the owner or tenant of land there, or the spouse of such owner or tenant;

(b) is a Canadian citizen;

(c) is at least 18 years old; and

(d) is not prohibited from voting under subsection (3) or otherwise by law. 2002, c. 17, Sched. D, s. 5 (2); 2005, c. 5, s. 46 (1).

Persons prohibited from voting

The following are prohibited from voting:

1. A person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution.

2. A corporation.

3. A person acting as executor or trustee or in any other representative capacity, except as a voting proxy in accordance with section 44.

4. 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.

Contact Us

City of Dryden
30 Van Horne Avenue, Dryden, Ontario P8N 2A7

Phone: (807) 223-2225
Email: generalinquiries@dryden.ca