Voter information | City of Kitchener

Are you registered to vote?

Elections Ontario is responsible for maintaining the Permanent Register of Electors for Ontario, commonly known as the voters list. The voters list is a list of individuals who are eligible to vote in provincial and municipal and school board elections in Ontario.

Check, update or add your information to the voters list for provincial and municipal and school board elections in Ontario.

Register to vote

To confirm or change your school support, visit the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) website.

Confirm or change your school support

You are eligible to vote in the municipal and school board election in the City of Kitchener if, on October 26, 2026, you:

Are a Canadian Citizen
Are at least 18 years old
Reside in Kitchener, or are the owner or tenant of land in Kitchener or the spouse of such owner or tenant
Are not prohibited from voting

Voting information for students

An eligible elector may have residences in two local municipalities at the same time if:

the person lives in one of the local municipalities to attend an educational institution, but not with the intention of changing their permanent lodging place.
the person’s permanent lodging place is in the other local municipality.

In this scenario, the elector is eligible to vote in both their "home" municipality and in the municipality where they currently live while attending school.

Voters with no address or permanent lodging place

A person’s residence is the permanent lodging place to which, whenever absent, the person intends to return. A person may only have one residence at a time. If a person has no other permanent lodging place, the place where they occupy a room, or part of a room as a regular lodger or to which they habitually return is their residence.

Eligible electors with no address or permanent lodging place can vote and determine their residence by:

The place to which the person most frequently returned to sleep or eat during the five weeks preceding the determination is their residence.
If the person returns with equal frequency to one place to sleep and to another to eat, the place to which they return to sleep is their residence.
Multiple returns to the same place during a single day, whether to eat or to sleep, shall be considered one return.
A person’s declaration regarding the places to which they returned to eat or sleep during a given time period is conclusive, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

Non-resident voters

If you are eligible to vote in the City of Kitchener as well as other municipalities, you can vote in all those municipal elections.

If you are eligible to vote in another municipality that is within the Region of Waterloo, you may only vote for regional council positions once.

Prohibited from voting

The following persons are prohibited from voting under the Municipal Elections Act:

A person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution
A corporation
A person acting as executor or trustee in any other representative capacity, except as a voting proxy
A person who was convicted of corrupt practices as defined in the Municipal Elections Act