Municipal elections in Nova Scotia take place every four years. The next municipal election will be on Saturday October 19, 2024.
In the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, residents vote for ten (10) councillors to represent each of the ten districts in the county. The elected councillors choose whom among them will serve as Warden and Deputy Warden.
You can find the boundaries for the districts in Antigonish County here
You can review the 2020 Municipal Election results here
Official 2024 Candidates
The following residents of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish have been officially nominated in the 2024 Municipal and Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) Election and will appear on the 2024 ballot. Nominations are no longer being accepted.
The full table of polling locations can be reviewed here: List of Candidates and Polling Locations
Key Dates
Saturday, October 12, 2024
First Advance Poll. Polls will be open from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Second Advance Poll. Polls will be open from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 19 2024
Election Day. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Last day to apply for candidates to ask for a recount
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Last day for candidates to file campaign contribution disclosure forms.
Returning Officer
The Returning Officer for the Municipality is Allan Armsworthy. He can be reached at returningofficer@Antigonishcounty.ca or 902-318-3309
Voter Information
How to Vote
Registered voters will vote in person at a polling station.
Polling station information will be shared once locations and dates are confirmed after nomination day (September 10th).
Voter Eligibility
- You must be 18 years or older on the first polling day
- You must be a Canadian citizen on the first polling day
- You must have been an “ordinarily” resident (meaning you have lived in Nova Scotia) for at least six months immediately preceding the first polling day
- You must be a resident of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish since immediately before the first polling day
Students
A student is a resident either where the person’s family home is located or where the person is attending school, but not both. Election officials may require students to demonstrate where they live and students must meet voting qualifications in order to vote.
If students determine their home to be where they attend school and are qualified to vote, they could choose to vote where they attend school.
If students feel they live where their family home is, regardless of where they attend school, they have the option to vote where their family home is located. They can only vote once.
Voter Eligibility – CSAP Election
One member of the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial will represent the electoral district of Antigonish comprising of the towns of Antigonish, Mulgrave, New Glasgow, Pictou, Stellarton, Trenton, and Westville and the Municipalites of the Counties of Antigonish, Pictou, and the Municipalities of the Districts of Guysborough and St. Mary’s.
Residents who are “entitled presons” within the meaning of s.3 (h), (i) of the Eduction (CSAP) Act are entitled to vote for the member of CSAP in their polling district. An “entitled person” is a person:
- who is a Canadian citizen, and
- whose first language learned and still understood is French, or
- who recieved their primary school instruction in Canada in a French-first language program, or
- of whom any child has recieved or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in Canada in a French-first-language program.
Additional information about municipal elections, as supplied by the Province, can be found online here
The Province has also released a Candidate Guide. Information in this document includes:
- important dates for the election
- qualifications for nomination and becoming a candidate (including disqualifications for office)
- nomination, election and voting procedures
- rules around campaigning, advertising and financing an election campaign
- duties, obligations and responsibilities of candidates
- duties, obligations and responsibilities of elected councillors and school board members