It's Election Day. Campaigns wrapped over the weekend with federal party leaders taking one more chance to sway Canadians ahead of the April 28 voting day.
Those who haven't voted will have the chance at their assigned polling stations, which you can find through your voting card, or online here. Advanced polling saw record numbers this year, including locally, with over 7 million ballots cast prior to Monday.
For an easy voting process, it's important to have voter card with you, along with a piece of accepted ID. Anyone who didn't receive a card in the mail likely has outdated information but can still register at the polling stations. People can also register online here but should remember to bring a printed copy of the registration certificate to sign "only at your polling station in front of the poll worker who is processing your registration" according to Elections Canada.
Peak hours for voting are early in the morning, and after 4:00 PM according to Elections Canada, and if you want to avoid the rush the least busy time to go is between 10:00 AM to noon, and 12:00-4:00 PM. While hours may vary, polls around the nation are set to be open for 12 hours today.
West-central Saskatchewan has parts of three voting regions within its borders. West Central Online reached out to each candidate in the Battlefords-Lloydminster-Meadow Lake riding, while our partner newsroom Swift Current Online spoke with Swift Current-Grasslands-Kindersley, Discover Humboldt taking the reins on the Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek riding.
Click on the name to read those candidate profiles for each local riding below:
Battlefords-Lloydminster-Meadow Lake
- Rosemarie Falk (Conservative Party)
- Larry Ingram* (Liberal Party)
- Darrell Patan (Canadian Future Party)
- William Petryk (New Democratic Party)
*WestCentralOnline reached out to each candidate in the Battlefords-Lloydminster-Meadow Lake constituency for an interview
Swift Current-Grasslands-Kindersley
- William Caton (Liberal Party)
- Maria Rose Lewans (Independent)
- Alex McPhee (New Democratic Party)
- Jeremy Patzer (Conservative Party)
Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek
