Voter Information

Voters' List

Checking, adding and updating your information on the Voters' List has now closed through Elections Ontario. More information will be available in September regarding how you can check, add and update your information on the Voters' List.

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

School board support means choosing which school board your local property taxes will help fund, and this information is listed on a property tax bill. This decision also decides which school board trustees you can vote for during municipal elections. Every property owner and tenant must make this choice, even if they do not have children.

• 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.

Proxy Voting

If you are unable to vote for any reason on any voting days, you can appoint another eligible voter to vote on your behalf.

A Voting Proxy must be someone who is eligible to vote in the City of Thorold and who the voter can trust to vote the way they wish. A Voting Proxy can only vote on behalf of one person unless they are voting on behalf of immediate family members. Immediate family members are spouses, siblings, parents, children, grandparents and grandchildren.

Note: A person acting as executor or trustee or in any other representative capacity is still required to get a certified Voting Proxy Appointment Form.

Proxy forms are available through the Government of Ontario website - Appointment of Voting Proxy - Form 3. or available at City Hall. 

Please call 905-227-6613 or email elections@thorold.ca to setup an appointment to have your Proxy Form certified by the City Clerk (or designate).