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The database contains basic information about electors: name, address, sex, and date of birth. An elector may register or update their personal information between elections, or may request to be excluded from it per the Canada Elections Act. Eligible expatriate Canadians voters are included in the International Register of Electors.
The application must include the last residential address of the applicant before departing Canada, and proof of identity. [2] Once the application is approved, the elector will be added to the International Register of Electors and become eligible to vote for elections in the electoral district of their last Canadian address. [4]
This is a list of Canada's 338 federal electoral districts (commonly referred to as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by the 2013 Representation Order. Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament to House of Commons of Canada every election. Provincial electoral districts often have names ...
Canada's first recorded election was held in Halifax in 1758 to elect the 1st General Assembly of Nova Scotia. [1] All Canadian citizens aged 18 or older who currently reside in Canada as of the polling day [2] (or at any point in their life have resided in Canada, regardless of time away) may vote in federal elections. [3]
The word "riding", from Old English *þriðing "one-third" (compare farthing, literally "one-fourth"), is an English term denoting a sub-division of a county. In some of Canada's earliest censuses, in fact, some citizens in the Ontario ridings of Bothwell, Cardwell, Monck and Niagara listed their electoral district as their "county" of ...
Canada's electoral system is a "first-past-the-post" system, which is formally referred to as a single-member plurality system.The candidate who receives the most votes in a riding, even if not a majority of the votes, wins a seat in the House of Commons and represents that riding as its member of Parliament (MP).
The availability of voter files sometimes creates a need for voter list management software as opposed to, for example, using Excel spreadsheets. Political campaigns generally have three options: Write-their-own software: A political campaign may choose to build their own database management system to handle their voter registration files.
This is a list of the 93 provincial electoral districts (also informally known as ridings in Canadian English) of British Columbia, Canada, as defined by the 2021 electoral redistribution. These ridings came into effect for the 2024 British Columbia general election.