Voter Information

Voters' List

Elections Ontario maintains the Permanent Register of Electors for Ontario, also known as the “voters' list”.

The voters' list contains information for individuals eligible to vote in provincial and local municipal elections in Ontario. To learn more about the voters' list and to add or update your information, please visit the Election Ontario's Register to Vote. 

School Support

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is legislatively required to collect school support designations. 

Update your school support through MPAC’s Online School Support page. As a property owner or tenant 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. For more information about school support designations, visit the MPAC website.

You are eligible to vote in the election for municipal council if you meet all of the following requirements:

• You are a Canadian citizen
• You are aged 18 or older
• You qualify to vote in the municipality

There are three (3) ways that you can qualify to vote in a municipality:

1. As a resident elector if you live in the municipality. You may own, rent, live in shared accommodation where you do not pay rent or live in the municipality but do not have a fixed address. Being a resident elector is the most common type of eligibility.
2. As a non-resident elector if you own or rent property in a municipality, but it’s not the one where you live. You can be a resident elector in only one municipality. However, you can be a non-resident elector in any other municipality (or municipalities) where you own or rent property.
3. As the spouse of a non-resident elector if your spouse owns or rents property in the municipality or municipalities other than the one where you live.

For more information, click on the 2026 Voters’ Guide 

For acceptable Voter Identification documents, please click here

• Mayor: One (1) to be elected, at large within the City, also serves as a member of Niagara Regional Council.
• City Councillors: Six (6) to be elected, at large.

School Board Trustees

• English Language Public District School Board (Areas of Pelham/Thorold): One (1) to be elected at large.
• English Language Catholic District School Board (Areas of St. Catharines – Merritton/Thorold): One (1) to be elected at large.
• French Language Public School Board: One (1) to be elected at large.
• French Language Catholic School Board: One (1) to be elected at large.

For a list of candidates, please click here.

For the 2026 Municipal and School Board Election, voters will have multiple options to vote.

Voters who are on the Voters' List will receive a Voter Information Letter in the mail with their online voting credentials and information on how to vote in person.

Online Voting

Voters will have the option to vote online from their computer or phone. Online voting is available from Friday, October 9 starting at 10:00 a.m. to Friday, October 23 ending at 11:59 p.m. 

In-Person Paper Ballot Voting

All voting locations are accessible to persons with disabilities. Election Officials are available on all voting days to provide assistance to voters.

Voters are encouraged to bring their Voter Information Letter with them when they vote to make the experience easier and faster. In addition, voters must show identification at the voting location to receive a ballot. The identification must show their name and address. For a complete list of acceptable identification, click here. 

Advanced Voting Days

Advanced voting locations will be equipped with a ballot marking device for voters with disabilities to vote secretly and independently.

Election Day (Monday, October 26)

Voters may vote at any of the following locations on Election Day (Monday, October 26) from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

On Election Day, the Thorold Community Activities Group will be equipped with a ballot marking device for voters with disabilities to vote secretly and independently.

Cobblestone Gardens Retirement Residence

Cobblestone Gardens will be set up as a special voting location on Election Day (Monday, October 26) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. so that residents of the retirement home can vote by paper ballot.