Nomination Period

NOTICE OF NOMINATION FOR OFFICE

Municipal Elections Act, 1996 (s. 32)

 

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN RUNNING FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICE?

 

2026 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

NOTICE TO MUNICIPAL ELECTORS

 

NOMINATIONS

Nominations for the positions listed below must be made on the prescribed form available at your Municipal Office. Nomination forms must be filed, either in person or by your agent, with the Returning Officer of the appropriate Municipality during Normal office hours between the first business day of May in 2026 to Thursday, August 20, 2026.

 

On Nomination Day, forms must be filed between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 21, 2026 (Nomination Day).Candidates for municipal council in municipalities with more than 4,000 electors, must submit original endorsement signatures from 25 people who are eligible to vote in the municipality, made on the prescribed form available at your Municipal Office. Candidates for municipal council in municipalities with 4,000 or fewer electors do not have to submit endorsement signatures.

 

The required filing fee for the Head of Council is $200.00 and all other offices are $100.00 (cash, certified cheque or money order made payable to the Township of James must accompany the signed form.  Full details on the procedures to be followed may be obtained from the appropriate Municipal Clerk. 

 

MUNICIPAL OFFICES FOR WHICH PERSONS MAY BE NOMINATED:

Reeve – (1)

Councillor – (4)

Returning Officer – Teri-Lynn Jibb

33 Third Street, Elk Lake, ON P0J 1G0

705-678-2237 www.elklake.ca

In the event there is an insufficient number of certified candidates to fill the positions available in each municipality, nominations will be reopened by the appropriate Returning Officer for the vacant positions only. Additional nomination papers would then be accepted between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.

 

For further information contact the appropriate Returning Officer above.