It’s election day in Ontario.
Polls open at 9 a.m. and close at 9 p.m.
CKNX News will have live coverage of the local ridings starting at 9 p.m. and stories and updates will be posted on cknxnewstoday.ca.
Elections Ontario says 1,066,545 voters cast their ballot at area advance polls during 10 days of advance voting in this year’s general election.
That represents 9.92 per cent of eligible voters in Ontario.
In 2018, 6.8 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballot early. Overall, voter turnout was 56.67 per cent.
Over 120,000 vote-by-mail kits were sent out by Elections Ontario.
747 kits were requested in the riding of Huron-Bruce, 618 in Perth-Wellington and 745 in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
That works out to just under one per cent of the eligible voting population in each case.
For those who have applied to vote by mail, Elections Ontario must receive the completed voting kit by 6 p.m. Thursday.
The list of candidates for the local ridings are listed below.
Huron-Bruce:
Shelley Blackmore, Ontario Liberal Party
Bruce Eisen, Alliance
Laurie Hazzard, Ontario NDP
Gerrie Huenemoerder, Ontario Party
Matt Kennedy, New Blue
Ronald Stephens, Independent
Lisa Thompson, PC Party of Ontario
Matthew Van Ankum, Green Party of Ontario
Perth-Wellington:
Laura Bisutti, Green Party of Ontario
Jo-Dee Burbach, NDP
Ashley Fox, Ontario Liberal Party
Bob Hosken, New Blue
Sandy William MacGregor, Ontario Party
Matthew Rae, PC Party of Ontario
Robby Smink, Freedom Party of Ontario
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound:
Rick Byers, PC Party of Ontario
Suzanne Coles, Ontario Party
Vince Grimaldi, New Blue
Karen Gventer, Ontario NDP
Selwyn J. Hicks, Ontario Liberal Party
Reima Kaikkonen, Independent
Joel Loughead, None of the Above Direct Democracy Party
Danielle Valiquette, Green Party of Ontario
Joseph Westover, Populist Ontario
