Is Carling your 2nd residence?
You can still vote here! Unlike provincial or federal elections, seasonal and part-time property owners or renters and their spouses can vote in municipal elections.
- Canadian citizens aged 18 or older who are qualified to vote.
- Resident electors. You are “a resident elector if you live in the municipality. You may own, rent, live in shared accommodation where you do not pay rent or live in the municipality but do not have a fixed address. Being a resident elector is the most common type of eligibility.
- Generally, you are qualified to vote in all municipalities in which you live as well as those in which you personally own or rent property (but not properties rented or owned through a business or trust).
- Spouses are also eligible to vote if his/her spouse “owns or rents property in the municipality or municipalities other than the one where you live.
- Eligible College and University Students: The place where a student’s family resides is also their residence unless they have moved with the intention of changing their permanent lodging. A student may vote in the municipality where they are temporarily residing while attending school as well as at their permanent home in a different municipality, provided that he or she has not abandoned the family home
- Check the rules here: https://www.ontario.ca/document/2022-voters-guide-ontario-municipal-council-and-school-board-elections