Vote sign  (Photo by Trevor Thompson)Vote sign (Photo by Trevor Thompson)
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Canadians choose a new federal government on Monday

It's Election Day in Canada, and the polls open at 9:30 a.m.

Canadians will have 12 hours to vote for their next Member of Parliament.

Where to vote is written on your voter information card, but you can also find your polling station online on the Elections Canada website.

Electors are advised to bring their voter information card with them to the polling station.

Even if you don't have a voter information card, you can cast a ballot by showing two pieces of government identification like your health card and driver's license or passport.

Elections Canada has warned Canadians full results may not be available on Monday night because of an expected increase in the number of mail-in ballots.

Elections Canada said just over one million mail-in ballots were requested, far below earlier estimates between 2.3-million and 4.3-million. That is still a significant increase from the 2019 federal election when only 50,000 were requested, most of them from voters living abroad.

Election officials start counting mail-in ballots on Tuesday morning, and Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault has said it could take two days, maybe five in some parts of the country.

If voter turnout at the advance polls is any indication, polling stations could be busy. Across Canada, voter turnout was up over 18 per cent. Locally, it increased considerably. In Windsor West, the number of people who cast an early ballot was up 39.9 per cent, 46.7 per cent in Essex, 55.6 per cent in Chatham-Kent-Leamington, and 68.3 per cent in Windsor-Tecumseh.

BlackburnNews.com will provide online coverage of the federal election on Monday night and stay with the story until full results are known.

There will also be updates on-air on Windsor's Country 95.9 FM and MIX 96.7 FM starting when the polls close.

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