Municipal elections in Nova Scotia take place every four years on the third Saturday of October. Election day is Saturday, October 19, 2024.

In the Town of Antigonish, residents vote for one mayor and six councillors at large – meaning electors vote for up to six candidates of their choice.

Key Dates

Saturday, October 5, 2024
E-voting (telephone and online voting) begins. 

Saturday, October 12, 2024
First Advance Poll - Returning Office, 149 Church Street (Mall Annex). Polls will be open from 12 to 8 p.m. 

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Second Advance Poll - Returning Office, 149 Church Street (Mall Annex). Polls will be open from 12 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, October 19, 2024
Election Day.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.at Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School, 105 Braemore Avenue.
E-voting closes at 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 Town of Antigonish is Allan Armsworthy: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - 902-318-3309

Official 2024 Candidates

The following residents of the Town 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. 

Please note, the contact information listed below and profile photos, are being shared with permission of the candidate as stated in their nomination package. If a candidate would like their contact information and photo added, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Candidates for Mayor

• Sean Cameron: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  902-318-6745    
  

• Emilie Chiasson: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  902-292-6273
  

Candidates for Council

• Sarah Armstrong: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  902-870-6519
   
• Travis Decoste: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-318-8292
  
• Kara Kilfoil: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   403-993-3659
  
• Drake Lowthers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-623-0852
  
• Leon MacLellan: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  902-714-6393
  
• Patrick McKenna: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-318-2745
  
• Coline Morrow: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-318-0961
  
• Andrew Murray: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-968-1248
• Juanita Pelly: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 902 318 1153
  
• Diane Roberts: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-318-1284 
  
• Jack Sullivan: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.    902-863-5457
  

CSAP Candidates 

• Francine Clément-Fraser
• Remi Deveau: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   902-870-2866
  

Forms and Documents for Candidates 

    pdf Candidate's Guide to Municipal and CSAP Elections (466 KB)

    document Oath or Affirmation of Official Agent  (16 KB)

    document Affidavit re Removal of Advertising Materials and Return of Lists of Electors (16 KB)

    pdf Declaration to Withdraw Nomination (30 KB)

    pdf Candidate's Campaign Contributions Disclosure Statement (87 KB)

To see the results from the 2020 election, please visit: https://townofantigonish.ca/2020-municipal-election.html

CSAP Forms for Candidates 

    pdf Candidate's Guide to CSAP Elections - French (663 KB)

     document Appointment of Official Agent  (23 KB)

    document Oath or Affirmation of Official Agent (23 KB)

    document Candidate Campaign Disclosure Statement (36 KB)

Voter Information

Voter Eligibility - Town Election

Under the Municipal Elections Act [s. 14], a person is entitled to be registered on the list of electors and to vote in a municipal election must:

• be 18 years or older on the first advance polling day
• be a Canadian citizen on the first advance polling day
• have been a resident in the province for a period of six months immediately preceding the first advance polling day; and
• is a resident in the Town of Antigonish since immediately before the first advance polling day

Electors may find out if they are on the list of electors for the Town of Antigonish by emailing the Returning Officer, Allan Armsworthy: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please note, you may be asked for your name, address, and date of birth.

Students

A student is ordinarily resident either where the person's family home is located or where the person is attending school, but not both. In establishing residency, election officials may require students to demostrate where they live. Students must meet voting qualifications in order to vote. It is likely that most first year Nova Scotian students will meet the residency requirement in order to vote either where they attend school or where their famiy home is located, but not in both places. 

An elector must be a resident in the Province of Nova Scotia for six months immediately preceding the first advance polling day (October 12) The resident must aso be ordinarily resident in the Town and have been so since immediately before the first advance polling day. 

Students, once the residency requirements have been met, may be required to work elsewhere for the summer and return in the Fall to continue their studies. In such cases if they determine their homle to be where they continue to attend school and are qualified to vote, they could choose to vote where they attend school. 

If they 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. 

How to Vote

Registered voters will have the option to vote in person at a polling station or by vote electronically, which means eligible voters can vote online or by phone (cell phone or landline). Eligible voters will receive a personalized voter letter in the mail with all instructions before voting begins.