Voter information

• Ontario driver’s licence
• Ontario Health Card (photo card)
• Ontario Photo Card
• Ontario motor vehicle permit (vehicle portion)
• cancelled personalized cheque
• mortgage statement, lease or rental agreement relating to property in Ontario
• insurance policy or insurance statement
• loan agreement or other financial agreement with a financial institution
• document issued or certified by a court in Ontario
• any other document from the government of Canada, Ontario or a municipality in Ontario or from an agency or such a government
• any document from a Band Council in Ontario established under the Indian Act (Canada)
• income tax assessment notice
• child tax benefit statement
• statement of employment insurance benefits paid T4E
• statement of old age security T4A (OAS)
• statement of Canada Pension Plan benefits T4A(P)
• Canada Pension Plan statement of contributions
• statement of direct deposit for Ontario Works
• statement of direct deposit for Ontario Disability Support Program
• Workplace Safety and Insurance Board statement of benefits T5007
• property tax assessment
• credit card statement, bank account statement, or RRSP, RRIF, RHOSP or T5 statement
• CNIB Card or a card from another registered charitable organization that provide services to persons with disabilities
• hospital card or record
• document showing campus residence, issued by the office or officials responsible for student residence at a post-secondary institution
• document showing residence at a long-term care home under the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021, issued by the Administrator for the home
• utility bill for hydro, water, gas, telephone or cable TV or a bill from a public utilities commission
• cheque stub, T4 statement or pay receipt issued by an employer
• transcript or report card from a post-secondary school

Learn more about Ontario regulation 304/13 for voter identification under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 as amended.

Elections Ontario is responsible for providing a preliminary list of electors to each municipality in Ontario for conducting municipal and school board elections. After August 12, 2026, any changes to your voter information must be completed in person with the City of Kitchener.

Book an appointment at Kitchener City Hall to update your voter information, including your name, address, and/or school board support. Please bring identification that shows your name and current address. If you prefer, you can also access this service by walking into Kitchener City Hall or by updating your information and being added to the voters list at any voting location.

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.

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.

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.

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