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While campaigning in 2016 the Yukon Liberal Party, and leader Sandy Silver, promised fixed election dates amongst other electoral reform. [46] [47] [48] Amendments to the territory's Elections Act providing for fixed election dates were passed in December 2020, and came into effect following the 2021 Yukon general election. [49]
The bill proposes moving the fixed election date of the 45th Canadian federal election from October 20, 2025, to October 27, 2025. According to the federal government the election date move is intended to avoid the federal election coinciding with Diwali, and the 2025 Alberta municipal elections. [6]
The 2025 Canadian federal election will elect members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament.Under the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, the election would be held on October 20, 2025, but it may be called earlier if the governor general dissolves Parliament on the recommendation of the prime minister, either for a snap election or after the government loses a ...
Section 56.1 establishes a fixed election date for federal general elections as the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following the last general election while retaining the power of the Governor General to dissolve Parliament earlier at their discretion. Its companion section 56.2 permits the Chief Electoral Officer (with the ...
[9] [10] [11] Since then, all provinces and territories have enacted similar legislation establishing fixed election dates. These laws, nevertheless, do not curtail the power of the governor general or a provincial lieutenant governor to dissolve a legislature prior to the fixed election date on the advice of the relevant first minister or due ...
Extra elections do not replace regular ones - they do not move the four-year schedule. In the United Kingdom, the only fixed-term election for the House of Commons was in 2015, the date having been determined by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Under the act, elections were set for the 25th working day following the day when a parliamentary ...
PHOTO: A person enters into a temporary voting site located in a tent due to damages caused by Hurricane Helene, on Election Day during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in Black Mountain ...
The 2025 Nunavut general election will be held on or before October 27, 2025, to return the members of the 7th Nunavut Legislature. Since the adoption of a fixed election date law in 2014, [ 1 ] general elections in Nunavut are held in the last Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following the last elections. [ 2 ]