Voter Information
Are you registered to vote?
Elections Ontario is responsible for maintaining the Permanent Register of Electors for Ontario, commonly known as the Voters' list. The voters' list is a list of individuals who are eligible to vote in provincial and municipal and school board elections in Ontario. Check, update or add your information to the voters' list for provincial and municipal and school board elections in Ontario.
About Elections Ontario’s Portal
You can now use Elections Ontario’s Voter Registration portal to:
- Confirm your voter information
- Update your name or address
- Add yourself if you’re missing
- Remove outdated information
- Register property‑based eligibility (important in cottage country municipalities)
Don't assume! Make sure you are on the 2026 Voter's List. It is important that all residents check to see if you are on the 2026 Municipal Election Voter's List now and not assume that you are on the list.
Change your school support
To confirm or change your school support, visit the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) website.
Anyone can vote in a municipal election who, on the day of the election, is:
- 18 years of age or older
- a Canadian citizen; and
- either a resident of the municipality or a property owner or tenant or the spouse of an owner or tenant in the municipality during a specified time just before the election.
Your name must be on the voters’ list in order for you to cast a ballot.
To ensure you are on the voters’ list for the 2026 municipal and school board elections, visit www.registertovoteon.ca.
On February 25, 2025, Howick Township Council approved By-law 13-2025 to allow for the alternative voting method of Internet/Telephone voting for the Municipal Election to be held in 2026.
Each eligible voter will receive, by mail, a Voters' Information Letter (VIL) that will detail the races they are eligible to vote for as well as the link to login AND a telephone number to call in, so they may choose their method to cast their vote. The letter also details a Personal Identification Number, as well as information on how to get assistance.
The voting period will be open from Tuesday, October 13, 2026 until 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, Monday, October 26, 2026.
Nomination period closes at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 21, 2026. More information on candidates will be shared after that date.
The Municipal Council of Howick Township makes decisions about the financing and servicing of services that are vital to your daily lives. The municipal council you elect will determine the strategic direction of the Township for the next four years.
An eligible elector may have residences in two local municipalities at the same time if:
- the person lives in one of the local municipalities to attend an educational institution, but not with the intention of changing their permanent lodging place.
- the person's permanent lodging place is in the other local municipality.
In this scenario, the elector is eligible to vote in both their "home" municipality and in the municipality where they currently live while attending school.
A person’s residence is the permanent lodging place to which, whenever absent, the person intends to return. A person may only have one residence at a time. If a person has no other permanent lodging place, the place where they occupy a room, or part of a room as a regular lodger or to which they habitually return is their residence.
Eligible electors with no address or permanent lodging place can vote and determine their residence by:
- The place to which the person most frequently returned to sleep or eat during the five weeks preceding the determination is their residence.
- If the person returns with equal frequency to one place to sleep and to another to eat, the place to which they return to sleep is their residence.
- Multiple returns to the same place during a single day, whether to eat or to sleep, shall be considered one return.
- A person’s declaration regarding the places to which they returned to eat or sleep during a given time period is conclusive, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
If you are eligible to vote in the Township of Howick as well as other municipalities, you can vote in all those municipal elections.
The following persons are prohibited from voting under the Municipal Elections Act:
- A person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution.
- A corporation.
- A person acting as executor or trustee in any other representative capacity, except as a voting proxy.
- A person who was convicted of corrupt practices as defined in the Municipal Elections Act.