Voters head to the polls in Ontario’s 43rd general election

After a 29-day provincial election campaign, it is now up to Ontarians to decide who to send to Queen’s Park to form government.

Polling stations will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday.

In order to vote, you must bring your registration card and one piece of identification verifying your name to your designated polling station. If you didn’t get a voter card in the mail, you can still cast a ballot by bringing a piece of ID with both your name and address on it. Accepted forms of identification include any document issued by the Government of Canada or the Government of Ontario, birth certificate or Canadian citizenship card, student card, Band membership card, bank statement, or a pay stub.

You can find your polling station at elections.on.ca.

Lineups to vote are expected to move quicker than they did during last year’s federal election when there were significantly fewer polling stations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those who opted to vote by mail-in ballot have until 6 p.m. to drop it off at their returning office. More than 126,100 voting kits were mailed to eligible voters for the 2022 provincial election, that is up from 15,202 mail-in ballots cast in the last provincial vote in 2018.

More than one million eligible voters cast their ballot during advance polls held over ten days last month, according to Elections Ontario.

Results for all of Ontario’s 124 ridings will start pouring in shortly after the polls close at 9 p.m. LondonNewsToday.ca will have election results coverage online at that time.

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