It's election day in Canada, and it's time for residents in 91Ô­´´ to cast their ballot.

A new federal government is expected to be named tonight, as Canada’s 2025 snap election gets underway. 

The nation's 45th federal election was called on March 23, amid a trade war with the United States. Since the writ was dropped the country's main political parties have been campaigning for the 343 seats in the House of Commons including Mark Carney’s Liberals, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats, Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pednault’s Greens, Yves-François Blanchet’s Bloc Quebecois, and Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada. 

Polls are open in British Columbia from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. PST today.

Where you can vote:

Electors must vote only at their assigned polling place. This is different from the process in some provincial elections, where electors can vote at any polling location.

To find out your local poll location, visit the and type in your street address.

Alternatively, Canadians can look at their voter registration card. Voters can only visit their specified polling location. 

To vote, electors must prove their identity and address. The list of accepted ID can be found .

Candidates running in the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge riding are  (in alphabetical order): 

Abbotsford - South 91Ô­´´ Riding

• Aeriol Alderking, People’s Party of Canada

• Mike de Jong, independent

• Sukhman Singh Gill, Conservative Party of Canada

• Kevin Gillies, Liberal Party of Canada

• Dharmasena Yakandawela, NDP

• Melissa Snazell, Green Party of Canada

ELECTION 2025: Meet your Abbotsford-South 91Ô­´´ candidates

Cloverdale-91Ô­´´ City Riding

• Tamara Jansen, Conservative Party of Canada

• Kyle Latchford, Liberal Party of Canada

• Jim McMurtry, People’s Party of Canada

• Vanessa Sharma, NDP

• Kevin Wilkie, Green Party of Canada

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91Ô­´´ Township-Fraser Heights Riding

• John Aldag, Liberal Party of Canada

• Sepehr Haghighat, People’s Party of Canada

• Holly Isaac, NDP

• Alex Joehl, Libertarian Party of Canada

• Debora Soutar, Green Party of Canada

• Tako Van Popta, Conservative Party of Canada

ELECTION 2025: Meet your 91Ô­´´ Township-Fraser Heights candidates

PLEASE NOTE: The above "Meet your candidate" links for each riding provide you with a bit more about most of the candidates. The 91Ô­´´ Advance Times/Aldergrove Star issued a series of questions to each of the candidates running in the 91Ô­´´ ridings ahead of the April 28 federal election. If their responses are not included in the riding package below, it is because they never replied.

For Elections Canada’s for questions click here.  

And please check back to our for full coverage of the results once polls close.