Canada Elections Act (S.C. 2000, c. 9)

Act current to 2012-05-02 and last amended on 2012-04-01. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Interpretation of ordinary residence

9. If the rules set out in section 8 are not sufficient to determine the place of ordinary residence, it shall be determined by the appropriate election officer by reference to all the facts of the case.

Marginal note:Members and persons living with members

10. Each candidate at a general election who, on the day before the dissolution of Parliament immediately before the election, was a member, and any elector living with the candidate on that day who would move, or has moved, with the candidate to continue to live with the candidate, is entitled to have his or her name entered on the list of electors for, and to vote at the polling station that is established for, the polling division in which is located

  • (a) the place of ordinary residence of the former member;

  • (b) the place of temporary residence of the former member in the electoral district in which the former member is a candidate;

  • (c) the office of the returning officer for the electoral district in which the former member is a candidate; or

  • (d) the place in Ottawa or in the area surrounding Ottawa where the former member resides for the purpose of carrying out parliamentary duties.

Marginal note:Part 11

11. Any of the following persons may vote in accordance with Part 11:

  • (a) a Canadian Forces elector;

  • (b) an elector who is an employee in the federal public administration or the public service of a province and who is posted outside Canada;

  • (c) a Canadian citizen who is employed by an international organization of which Canada is a member and to which Canada contributes and who is posted outside Canada;

  • (d) a person who has been absent from Canada for less than five consecutive years and who intends to return to Canada as a resident;

  • (e) an incarcerated elector within the meaning of that Part; and

  • (f) any other elector in Canada who wishes to vote in accordance with that Part.

  • 2000, c. 9, s. 11;
  • 2003, c. 22, s. 100.
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Marginal note:Residence at by-election

  • 12. (1) No elector is entitled to vote at a by-election unless his or her place of ordinary residence on polling day is situated in the same electoral district that includes the polling division in which was situated the elector’s place of ordinary residence at the beginning of the revision period established by section 96.

  • Marginal note:Address change within electoral district

    (2) For the purpose of a by-election only and despite anything in this Act, an elector who, during the period between the beginning of the revision period and ending on polling day, has changed his or her place of ordinary residence from one polling division to another polling division in the same electoral district may register his or her name on the list of electors in the new polling division.