- Municipal elections in Canada
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Municipal elections in Canada fall within the jurisdiction of the various provinces and territories. Therefore, they occur on different dates, depending on which province they are in. However, municipalities in the same province will usually have their elections on the same day. Unlike most provinces, territories, and the House of Commons, most municipalities have their elections on some sort of a fixed date. Each province has its own nomenclature for municipalities and some have local elections for unincorporated areas which are not technically municipalities. These entities can be called cities, towns, villages, townships, hamlets, parishes and, simply, municipalities, county municipalities, regional county municipalities, municipal districts, regional districts, counties, regional municipalities, specialized municipalities, district municipalities or rural municipalities. Many of these may be used by Statistics Canada as the basis for census divisions or census subdivisions. Municipal elections usually elect a mayor (or reeve) at large, city councillors (or aldermen), and school trustees. Most councils are non-partisan, however, some municipalities (such as Montreal, Quebec City, Longueuil, Vancouver, Surrey, British Columbia and Victoria, British Columbia) do have local political parties. These are municipal in nature, and are rarely affiliated with any provincial or federal parties.
Voting may be done with paper ballots that are hand-counted, or by various forms of electronic voting.
Municipal election chart by province and territory
Province or Territory Occurrence Date Last Current Next Alberta excluding Lloydminster 3 years 3rd Monday in October 2007 2010 2013 British Columbia 3 years 3rd Saturday in November 2008 2011 2014 Manitoba 4 years 4th Wednesday in October 2006 2010 2014 New Brunswick 4 years (3 years prior to 2004) 2nd Monday in May 2004 2008 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador 4 years last Tuesday in September 2005 2009 2013 Northwest Territories taxed communities 3 years 3rd Monday in October 2006 2009 2012 hamlets 2 years 2nd Monday in December 2008 2010 2012 Nova Scotia 4 years 3rd Saturday in October 2004 2008 2012 Nunavut Iqaluit 3 years 3rd Monday in October 2006 2009 2012 hamlets 1 year 1st Monday in December 2009 2010 2011 Ontario 4 years (3 years prior to 2006) 4th Monday in October (since 2010) 2006 2010 2014 Prince Edward Island cities, Cornwall, & Stratford 4 years 1st Monday in November 2006 2010 2014 excluding above 3 years 1st Monday in November 2006 2009 2012 Quebec 4 years 1st Sunday in November 2005 2009 2013 Saskatchewan urban municipalities 3 years 4th Wednesday in October 2006 2009 2012 odd-numbered rural municipalities 2 years 1st Wednesday in November 2008 2010 2012 even-numbered rural municipalities 2 years 1st Wednesday in November 2009 2011 2013 Yukon 3 years 3rd Thursday in October 2006 2009 2012 External links
See also
- Canadian electoral calendar, 2012
- Canadian electoral calendar, 2011
- Provincial elections in Canada
- Municipal government in Canada
- Elections in Canada
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