You can vote at any advance voting location in Alberta or on Election Day at your assigned voting place.

The ‘where to vote‘ tool from Elections Alberta can provide you with options for advance voting, your Election Day voting location, and your local returning office.

You should receive a Where to Vote Card in the mail or by email.

Visit the Elections Alberta website for more information.

Election Day is Monday, May 29 every elector is assigned a voting location based on your place of ordinary residence. You can only vote at your assigned voting location on Election Day (May 29).

All Election Day voting locations are open from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Find your Election Day voting location here.

TIP: Advance voting takes place the week before Election Day, from Tuesday, May 23 through Saturday, May 27 between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm. 

You can vote at any advance voting location.

Find your nearest advance voting location here.

Advance Polls will be on the following dates between 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.:

• Tuesday, May 23rd
• Wednesday, May 24th
• Thursday, May 25th
• Friday, May 26th
• Saturday, May 27th

While days and hours of operation may vary for some locations, every electoral division will have at least one location open for the full voting period.

You may choose to vote at any advance voting location.

If you cannot attend on Election Day (May 29th) or you could get busy that day, please vote early at Advance Polls!

If you cannot vote at any of the Advance Polls or on Election Day, please vote at the Returning office.

The Returning Office will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday starting once the writ is issued.

You can find your nearest voting location, here.

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Advance voting takes place the week before Election Day, from Tuesday, May 23 through Saturday, May 27 between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm. 

You can vote at any advance voting location.

Find your nearest advance voting location here.

To vote, you must prove your identity and current address.

To do this, you may:

• Provide one piece of Government-issued photo ID, including your full name, current address, and photo
• Provide two pieces of ID, both containing your full name, and with one showing your current physical address
• Have another registered elector in your voting area vouch for you
• Have an authorized signatory complete an attestation form

Click here to see a full list of accepted forms of ID.

Ordinary Residence

Some Albertans may spend their time at more than one location in the province or may spend portions of the year in other provinces or countries. To determine their eligibility to vote in a provincial election, these persons must determine their place of ordinary residence per the following rules:

1. a person can have only one place of ordinary residence
2. a person’s ordinary residence is the place where the person lives and sleeps and to which, when the person is absent from it, the person intends to return, and
3. when a person leaves Alberta with the intention of becoming ordinarily resident outside Alberta, the person’s ordinary residence in Alberta ceases

For Students

Students studying in Alberta, as well as any Albertan students studying outside of Alberta, are eligible to vote in a provincial election. But, they must also determine their place of ordinary residence, per the following rules. These rules also apply to any spouse, partner or dependent of a student.

If a student leaves their ordinary residence in Alberta to study at an educational institution elsewhere in Alberta, that person may, while pursuing their studies, consider one of the following as their place of ordinary residence:

1. the place where they resided immediately before commencing their studies
2. the place where they are currently residing in Alberta

Outside of Alberta

If a student leaves their ordinary residence in Alberta to study at an educational institution outside Alberta, that person may, while pursuing their studies, maintain ordinary residence in the place where they lived before leaving Alberta. However, if the student does not intend to return to Alberta once they complete their studies, they should register to vote where they are now residing and cease being an elector in Alberta.

Visit the Elections Alberta website for more information.

You can apply to vote by Special Ballot if you are unable to vote during advance voting days or on Election Day. Electors choosing this voting option must declare their reason for voting by Special Ballot. Applicable reasons include:

• Physically disabled,
• Away from their electoral division,
• An election officer, candidate, official agent or scrutineer,
• Living in a remote area, as defined in the Election Act, or
• Displaced by emergency or disaster, such as fire or flood

Electors voting by Special Ballot may:

• Request their voting package be mailed to them. See How to Vote by Mail for more information.
• Vote in person at the returning office or Elections Alberta (Edmonton).
• Pick up their voting package at the returning or Elections Alberta (Edmonton). Completed packages can be dropped off at the same location or returned in the mail.

Requests for a Special Ballot to be mailed out can only be made until Monday, May 22 at 6pm. In person and pick-up requests for a Special Ballot can be made until the close of voting on Election Day.

Visit Elections Alberta for more information.

Have you been displaced from your home due to an emergency or disaster, such as fire or flood? Voting options are still available to you throughout the election period.

Visit the Elections Alberta website for more information.

If you are unable to vote on Election Day or on advance voting days, you may vote at the returning office for your electoral division.

This option is available once the writ is issued, for the entire 28-day election period.

Returning offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday starting on May 1.

Please note you must inform the Returning Officer that if you cannot vote during Advance Polls or Election Day to vote at the Returning office.

The information on Returning Officers comes from the Elections Alberta website here.

If this changes, they will provide that information at your local Returning Office.

You can find your closest returning office by using this link!

Students studying in Alberta, as well as any Albertan students studying outside of Alberta, are eligible to vote in a provincial election.

If a student leaves their ordinary residence in Alberta to study at an educational institution elsewhere in Alberta, that person may, while pursuing their studies, consider one of the following as their place of ordinary residence:

1) the place where they resided immediately before commencing their studies
2) the place where they are currently residing in Alberta

What this means is that you can vote either in the riding you are from (your home riding prior to moving to school) or the riding you currently live in for school.

Your local UCP Campaign will provide rides to voting locations. Click here to request a ride.