Election 2020
Voter Information
Qualifications to Vote
To vote in the March 7, 2020 Region of Windsor and West Hants Municipality Election you must:
- Be 18 years old as of February 29, 2020 (1st Advance Poll Day)
- Be a Canadian Citizen as of February 29, 2020 (1st Advance Poll Day)
- Have been an ordinary resident of the Province of Nova Scotia as of August 28, 2019
- Be ordinarily resident in the Regional Municipality of Windsor and West Hants immediately before February 29, 2020
The following are not entitled to vote:
- The Returning Officer
- A person serving sentence in a penal or reform institution
- A person convicted of bribery under the Municipal Elections Act in the last six year before March 7, 2020 (Ordinary Polling Day)
What is Ordinarily Resident?
According to the Municipal Elections Act, Ordinarily Resident is defined as:
Section 16 – Ordinarily Resident
- (1) A person is ordinarily resident in the place where the person lives and to which, whenever absent, the person intends to return.
- (2) A person may be ordinarily resident in only one place at a time.
- (3) A person does not cease to be ordinarily resident in a place by leaving the place for a temporary purpose only.
- (4) Where a person usually sleeps in one place and has meals or is employed in another place, the person is ordinarily resident in the place where the person sleeps.
- (5) Where a person has temporary residential quarters, those quarters are considered to be the place in which the person is ordinarily resident only if the person has no other place the person considers as that person’s ordinary place of residence.
- (6) Where a person is being provided with food, lodging or other social services by a shelter, hostel or similar institution, the person is ordinarily resident in the shelter, hostel or institution.
- (7) Where the rules set out in subsections (1) to (6) are not sufficient to determine the place where a person is ordinarily resident, the place where the person is ordinarily resident must be determined by the appropriate election officer with reference to all the facts of the case.
- (8) A person who, on the first advance polling day, (a) is a student; (b) is ordinarily resident in a polling district or polling division other than that of the person’s family home; and (c) is qualified as an elector, may elect to be included on the list of electors in one or the other of the polling divisions, but not both, and is deemed to be ordinarily resident in that polling division.
- (9) A person is not ordinarily resident in a residence that is generally occupied by the person only between the beginning of May and the end of October but that is generally unoccupied between the beginning of November and the end of April unless the person does not have another residence in the Province where the person resides between the beginning of November and the end of April. 2011, c. 68, s. 4; 2015, c. 47, s. 2.
Are you on the List of Electors?
Check to see if you are on the List of Electors or be added to the list during the Revision Period January 8-23, 2020 from 9 am -4:30 pm by contacting:
Rhonda Brown
Returning Officer
76 Morison Drive, Windsor
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902-798-8391 ext. 110
Shelleena Thornton
Assistant Returning Officer
100 King Street, Windsor
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902-798-2275 ext. 207
Missed the Revision Period?
You can still be added to the List of Electors and vote at your designated Polling Station on February 29, 2020, March 3, 2020 and March 7, 2020.
To be added to the List of Electors you will need to:
- Take an oath that you are eligible to vote
- Provide your name, civic address and date of birth
- Provide a signature
Can someone vote on my behalf? (Proxy Voting)
If you cannot vote on any of the Advance Polling Days (February 29, 2020 and March 3, 2020) or on Ordinary Polling Day (March 7, 2020) due to illness, physical disability or absence from the Regional Municipality you can apply to vote by proxy. Voting by proxy means a friend or family member can vote on your behalf (proxy voter), at your polling station.
To apply to vote by Proxy:
- Complete an pdf Application to Vote by Proxy (Form 21) (89 KB)
- Submit the Application to the Returning Officer in person at 76 Morison Drive between 9:00 am February 13, 2020 and 4:30 p.m. February 28, 2020. Only you or your proxy voter can submit the application.
- Receive a Proxy Paper (Form 22) from the Returning Officer
- Have your proxy voter attend your polling station on Ordinary Poll Day (March 7, 2020) to vote for you.
Qualifications for a Proxy Voter
If you and your proxy voter are unrelated, you must each be on the list of electors for the Regional Municipality and your proxy voter must not have been appointed for any other unrelated elector.
If you are related to the proxy voter such as child, grandchild, brother, sister, parent, grandparent, husband, or wife, you must each be on the list of electors for the Regional Municipality.
If you are a resident in a home for special care, you can appoint a proxy voter who is related as a child, grandchild, brother, sister, parent, grandparent husband or wife, who is of voting age but they do not need to be on any list of electors.
A proxy voter may vote for any number of related electors but only one unrelated elector.
Remember: Proxy votes can only be used on March 7, 2020
What District am I in?
Go to the Polling Districts Map to find the location of where your polling station will be and who the candidate(s) will be after the close of nomination on February 12, 2020.