{"id":293777,"date":"2025-04-30T03:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/what-time-do-polls-close-in-canadas-election\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:20:06","slug":"what-time-do-polls-close-in-canadas-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/what-time-do-polls-close-in-canadas-election\/","title":{"rendered":"What Time Do Polls Close in Canada\u2019s Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/28canada-election-poll-times-wkgl\/28canada-election-poll-times-wkgl-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"What Time Do Polls Close in Canada\u2019s Election?\" title=\"What Time Do Polls Close in Canada\u2019s Election?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Canada has six time zones, and poll closures are synchronized to happen at roughly the same time nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The country\u2019s westernmost province, British Columbia, will close a half-hour later than Ontario and Quebec do, at 10 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">(Elections Canada, the nonpartisan agency that administers the federal election, has a complete <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.ca\/content2.aspx?section=faq&amp;dir=votinghours&amp;document=index&amp;lang=e\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">list of polling hours<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/world\/canada\/when-do-polls-close.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/28canada-election-poll-times-wkgl\/28canada-election-poll-times-wkgl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[740,6379,3600,50,67,2325,222,190663],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293779,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293777\/revisions\/293779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}