Guelph municipal election 2018: A last minute voters guide

Guelph residents will be casting their ballots on Monday in the 2018 municipal election.

Polling stations will open at 10 a.m. and all voting will officially be over by 8 p.m. City officials say the results should come in quickly.

The city spent $80,000 mailing voter cards to eligible voters, which contains information on where and how to vote.

Voters should bring identification with their current address on it along with their voter card.

Voters will be deciding on a mayor, two councillors for each of the six wards and in some cases, a school trustee.

Roughly 5,400 residents already voted in advance polls.

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Where to vote

To find out which ward you are in, you can type your address into the city’s website, which has also provided a list of voting stations for each ward.

However, voters in Guelph are allowed to cast their ballot at any polling station within their ward on election day.

How to vote

Voters are required to show one piece of identification with a name and Guelph address.

Guelph’s mayoral candidates

The race for the mayor’s seat in Guelph is between the incumbent Cam Guthrie and former Ontario NDP candidate Aggie Mlynarz.

Guthrie has campaigned with “A Stronger, Safe Community” platform that includes an “immediate investment” of up to $750,000 per year to Guelph police to combat property thefts, drugs and speeding.

Guthrie has repeatedly said in debates and interviews that Guelph is on the right track, but Mlynarz has called the mayor’s leadership into question.

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She has also criticized Guthrie for campaigning with select candidates and argued that he is running a slate of candidates to gain control of council.

Mlynarz’s platform features three pillars: city services and infrastructure, community well-being, and sustainability and future development.

Guthrie has served on city council for eight years after being first elected as Ward 4 councillor in 2010.

Mlynarz’s first taste of politics came earlier this year when she ran for the Ontario New Democrats in the provincial election and finish third.

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She has lived in Guelph for more than 20 years and holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Guelph’s theatre studies department.

A complete list of registered and certified mayoral, ward council candidates is below. Hyperlinks to each of the candidates’ campaign websites are included, if available.