Where does a voter who has recently moved within Canada, or is studying away from home, cast a ballot?
If you move to a different address but stay within your riding, it’s very simple. Just phone your local Elections Canada hotline and ask for their address information to be adjusted, getting the location of the new polling station at the same time. If you have moved to a whole new riding, you are eligible to vote there. There is no minimum time of residency before you can vote, and you don’t have to plan to stay in your new riding for any specific length of time. You just have to consider it your official address on voting day. That’s why students can choose to vote in the riding where they go to school or in their parents’ riding, depending on which one they consider their “place of ordinary residence.” The Elections Canada definition of this term is almost poetic: “The place of ordinary residence of a person is the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to which the person intends to return when away from it. A person can have only one
