What You Need to Know To Vote In Advance Polls For Provincial Election Beginning Thursday
/Advanced polls for this year’s provincial election in the Peterborough-Kawartha Riding begin this Thursday.
This is the first winter provincial election for Ontario since 1981. Since Friday, Candidate nominations have been closed. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
Voters can hit advance polls starting Thursday and running until Saturday.
Advance polls run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. You can vote in the advance polls in one of any of the following locations:
Peterborough Square (Unit 21), 360 George St. (Local Election Office)
Havelock Seniors Centre, 10 George St., Havelock
Lakefield Community Centre, 20 Concession St., Lakefield
Peterborough Lions Community Centre, 347 Burnham St., Peterborough
North Kawartha Comunity Centre, 340 McFadden Rd., Apsley
Trent Lakes Municipal Office, 780 County Rd. 36, Bobcaygeon
Miskin Law Community Complex, 271 Lansdowne St. W., Peterborough
Additionally, the Local Election Office runs on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Instructions when voting in the advance polls:
When you arrive at the voting location, you will be asked to show your ID to an election official, who will check if you are on the voter list
If you are not on the list, the election official will add you to the voters list and ask you to sign a declaration
The election official will then issue you a ballot
You will go behind a voting screen to mark your ballot. To vote for your chosen candidate, mark an X in the circle beside their name and return the completed ballot to the ballot box
You will place your marked ballot into the secrecy folder and take it to an election official operating a tabulator
The following are the candidates for the ridings in the Kawarthas for the provincial election:
Peterborough-Kawartha
MPP Dave Smith: PC Party of Ontario (incumbent)
Adam Hopkins: Ontario Liberal Party
Jen Deck: Ontario NDP/NPD
Lucas Graham: Green Party of Ontario GPO
Brian Martindale: Ontario Party
Andrew Roudny: New Blue Party
Northumberland—Peterborough South
David Piccini – PC Party of Ontario (incumbent)
Dorothy Noronha – Ontario Liberal Party
Bruce LePage – Ontario NDP/NPD
Maxwell Groves – Green Party of Ontario
Florian Bors – Ontario Party
Joshua Chalhoub – New Blue Party
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock
Laurie Scott: PC Party of Ontario (incumbent)
Alison Bennie: Ontario Liberal Party
Barbara Doyle: Ontario NDP/NPD
Tom Regina: Green Party of Ontario
Brian Kerr: Ontario Party
Jacquie Barker: New Blue Party
Bill Denby: Freedom Party of Ontario
Gene Balfour: Independent
Zachary Tisdale: Libertarian
Hastings—Lennox and Addington
Ric Bresee: PC Party of Ontario (incumbent)
Lynn Rigby: Ontario Liberal Party
Jessica Zielke: Ontario NDP/NPD
Mike Holbrook: Green Party of Ontario
Derek Sloan: Ontario Party
Glenn Tyrrell: New Blue Party
