Information for Voters

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 page. 

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.

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 2022 Voters’ Guide 

For acceptable Voter Identification documents, please click here

For the 2026 Municipal and School Board Election, City Council has authorized the use of internet voting in addition to in-person paper ballot voting.

More information will follow regarding how and where to vote in the 2026 election.

What are we voting for?

Council Members

• Mayor: One (1) to be elected, at large within the City, also serves as a member of Niagara Regional Council.
• City Councillors: Eight (8) to be elected, at large.
• Regional Councillors: One (1) to be elected, at large within the City, represents the City of Thorold at Niagara Regional Council.

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.