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​Voting Day is Monday, October 26, 2026.  

The City of Brampton will also have advance voting on October 9, 10, 11, 16, and 17, 2026. ​

​Voting hours on Voting Day, Monday, October 26, 2026, are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.​​  

Voting hours on advance voting days are:

12 p.m. to 8 p.m.      Friday, October 9, 2026

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.      Saturday, October 10, 2026

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.      Sunday, October 11, 2026

12 p.m. to 8 p.m.      Friday, October 16, 2026

10 a.m. to​ 5 p.m.      Saturday, October 17, 2026

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​For the 2026 Brampton Municipal Election, voters will be able to vote anywhere within their ward on Voting Day (October 26). For advance voting, voters may vote at any advance voting location in the city.

A list of advance voting and Voting Day locations will be available in the fall.

A person is eligible to vote in a municipal election, if on Voting Day they:

  • are a Canadian citizen
  • are at least 18 years old
  • reside in Brampton or are an owner or tenant of land in Brampton, or the spouse of such owner or tenant; and
  • are not otherwise prohibited from voting.

The following cannot vote in a municipal election:
  • a person serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution;
  • a corporation;
  • a person acting as an executor or trustee or in any other representative capacity, except as a voting proxy in accordance with section 44 of the Municipal Elections Act​, 1996; or​
  • a person convicted of a corrupt practice for an election held within four years of Voting Day.​​

​The Voters’ List is put together for each election based on information that is held by Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario is responsible for preparing the Preliminary List of Electors for each municipality. It is Elections Ontario's Register that is used to prepare this preliminary list, which aids in the preparation of the final Voters' List for Voting Day. School board information is provided to Elections Ontario by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC).

Visit the Elections Ontario website​ to check if your voter inforamtion is accurate and up-to-date.

​You can check to see if y​ou are on the Voters’ List on the Elections Ontario website. 

As a property owner in Ontario, you are required to support a school board, even if you do not have children. By default, your school support designation is set to English Public unless you choose to support another school board. 

​To vote for school board trustee, you must meet the qualifications of an elector. Under the Education Act, 1990, in order to vote for the Separate School Board, an elector must be Roman Catholic, and in order to vote for a French School Board, an elector must have French language rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In order to vote for the French Separate School Board, an elector must be Roman Catholic and have French language rights.

​​If you moved recently, you may not be on the Voters' List or your information on the List is no longer up-to-date.

Visit the Elections Ontario web​site​ to check or update your voter information.

Please ensure you bring acceptable identification​ with you to the voting location with your name and new Brampton address.

Please remember, you can only vote once in the City and you must vote where you currently live.

You can have your name removed from the Voters’ List by visiting the Elections Ontario website​ and removing your personal information and/or property, but you will not be able to vote unless you have your name put back on the List.​

You can visit the Elections Ontario website​ to have the name of a person who is deceased removed from the List.

​If you are on the Voters' List, you should receive a voter notice in September, closer to the election. Take that notice to the voting location, as well as one piece of identification that shows both your name and address.

If you are not on the Voters' List, you will need to be added at the voting location. You will need to provide identification showing your name and address. You will need to sign a statutory declaration stating that you are a qualified elector. 

You can find a complete list of acceptable forms of id​entification​ for proof of name and address on our website​.

​If you are on the Voters' List, you can still vote by completing and signing a declaration that you are the person whose name appears on the List.

If you are not on the Voters' List, you will need to be added to the List before voting, and will need to provide identification.

For more information, review the list of acceptable documents for identification​.

​There may be a number of reasons why you may not be showing on the Voters’ List.  Some of the reasons can include:

  • you are included on the List with one name but you are checking with another name (e.g. "Pat" instead of "Patricia")
  • you have moved within the last four years
  • your name, address or birthdate are recorded incorrectly on the Voters' List and therefore not matching what you have typed in
Make sure you bring identification with you when you go to vote. You can add or update your information on the Voters' List at the voting location.

​Voters who are not available to vote on Voting Day can instead vote at the advance voting locations. Advance voting will take place on October 9, 10, 11, 16 & 17. Voting times are Fridays from 12 to 8 p.m. and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Voters can also appoint a proxy to vote on their behalf.  The form to appoint a proxy will be available closer to the election.

​If you are appointed as the proxy for a person who is not a family member, you may not be appointed as a proxy for anyone else, including family members.

If you are appointed as the proxy for a family member, you may also be appointed as the proxy for additional family members, if the family members are a spouse, sibling, parent, child, grandparent or grandchild.

​You are eligible to vote in the municipality where you live, and the municipality where you qualify as a non-resident voter. You can vote in both municipalities. If both municipalities are in the same school board, you can only vote for school trustee in one municipality.

​No. You must vote in the ward where you live.

​The voter notice is sent to all eligible electors in Brampton who are on the Voters' List. The envelope package from the City contains voting information and an individual voter notice for every eligible voter at your address. On each voter notice is your name, address, ward number, school support and voter barcode.  

The voter notice includes all the voting locations in your ward. You can vote (only once) at any listed location. On the back of the voter notice is the list of advance voting locations, dates and times, if you want to vote early.

Take your voter notice with you when you vote, along with your acceptable identification​. The voter notice will help serve you quickly at the voting location. The voter notice does not serve as acceptable identification so remember to bring your identification​.

​If you did not receive your voter notice you may not be on the Voters' List.  Don't worry, you can add your name to the List at any voting location by completing​ an Application to Amend the Voters' List form with acceptable identification.

​A student may vote in the municipality where they temporarily reside while attending school as well as at their permanent home in a different municipality, provided that they do not intend to change their permanent home. The student is required to fill out and submit an Application to Amend the Voters' List form to add themselves to the Voters' List in the municipality where they go to school and wish to vote.​

​Tenants are encouraged to visit the Elections Ontario website​​ to make sure their information is included on the Voters' List and is accurate.

​In order to qualify as a non-resident voter, you (or your spouse) must be the owner or tenant of the property. If a family member who is not your spouse is the owner, and you have use of the cottage, you would not qualify as a non-resident voter. If the cottage is owned by a trust, you would not qualify as a non-resident voter.

​No, if the business is the owner of the property, you would not qualify as a non-resident voter.

​No. A person who is serving a sentence in prison is not entitled to vote.

​Voters who do not have a permanent address can be added to the​ Voters' List by showing a piece of acceptable identification​ with their name on it, and by making an Affidavit of Residence to declare where they sleep or eat most regularly during the last five (5) weeks, to serve as their qualifying address. 

Please contact bramptonvotes@brampton.ca​ for more assistance.  

​You are entitled to three consecutive hours in which to vote on Voting Day. If your job requires you to work hours that would not give you a three-hour period in which to vote, you are allowed to be absent from your job for enough time to give you that three-hour period. Your employer may decide when it would be most convenient for you to be absent in order to vote.

Note: This does not mean that you are entitled to take three hours off of work.

How you vote depends on if you vote on Voting Day or during advance voting.

​A voter is provided a paper ballot at the voting location after confirming the voter is on the Voters' List and has provided acce​ptable identification.​

The type of ballot provided will depend on when they vote and the voter's school support as identified on the Voters' List. The Voting Day ballot is two-sided with offices to be elected on either side.

The voter takes the ballot in a secrecy folder behind a voting screen for privacy. ​

On Voting Day, the voter will completely fill in the oval next to the name of the candidate they choose, and only do so once for each office on the ballot.​

During advance voting, the voter will use an accessible voting unit touchscreen to select the name of the candidate they choose, and the device will mark their ballot.

The Voters' List is live and when a voter attends a voting location, they are marked as having voted. This information is updated immediately and all other voting locations will see the same information.

​No, you cannot vote by mail or on the internet. The method of voting for the 2026 Municipal Election is in-person voting with paper ballots and vote tabulators. 

Updating your address on your driver's licence, your utility bills, or the Federal Voters' List, does not update a municipal Voters' List. Voters who are no longer eligible to vote in Brampton must remove themselves from Brampton's Voters' List by completing an Application to Amend the Voters' List ​form at City Hall, or at any of the voting locations during advance voting or Voting Day​.

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