Who Can Vote

Ordinary Residence

Some Albertans may spend their time at more than one location in the province or may spend portions of the year in other provinces or countries. To determine their eligibility to vote in a provincial election, these individuals must determine their place of ordinary residence according to the following rules:

1. A person can have only one place of ordinary residence,
2. A person’s ordinary residence is the place where the person lives and sleeps and to which, when the person is absent from it, the person intends to return, and
3. When a person leaves Alberta with the intention of becoming ordinarily resident outside Alberta, the person’s ordinary residence in Alberta ends and they cease being an elector in Alberta.

For Students

For Incarcerated Electors

Incarcerated electors who were residents of Alberta before their incarceration are eligible to vote in a provincial election, even if they are currently incarcerated outside of Alberta. An incarcerated elector may select their place of ordinary residence, from one of the following options: 

• their residence before being incarcerated
• the residence of their spouse, partner, relative, dependent, or other person with whom they would live if they were not incarcerated
• the place of their arrest, or
• the last court where they were convicted and sentenced