Canada has six time zones, and poll closures are synchronized to happen at roughly the same time nationwide.
The first polls opened in Newfoundland and Labrador, an Atlantic province, at 8:30 a.m. local time, which is 7 a.m. Eastern. Ontario and Quebec, the most populous provinces, which fall in the Eastern time zone, will vote from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The country’s westernmost province, British Columbia, will close a half-hour later than Ontario and Quebec do, at 10 p.m. Eastern.
(Elections Canada, the nonpartisan agency that administers the federal election, has a complete list of polling hours.)
About 7.3 million Canadians cast their ballots during the early-voting period, April 18 to April 21, according to Elections Canada, a 25 percent increase over early-voting turnout in the 2021 election.
Ian Austen reports on Canada for The Times based in Ottawa. He covers politics, culture and the people of Canada and has reported on the country for two decades. He can be reached at [email protected].
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