Candidate: Number of Votes

Alice Burdick: 377

Penny Carver: 459

Aaron M. Collery: 157

Joseph Maxwell Feeney: 384

Francis Kangata: 482

Richard Nowe: 352

Kelly Wilson: 439

Spoiled: 1

Declined: 21

Total: 2672

Voter Participation: 70.3%

Congratulations to Councillors, Burdick, Carver, Feeney, Kangata, Nowe, and Wilson. Thank you to all of our candidates for a great campaign and a very special thank you to the voters of Mahone Bay who participated in record numbers. Well done, Mahone Bay! 

You can still cast your vote by phone or internet until 7pm this evening, and we are at the Legion (21 Pond Street) today for anyone who would like to vote at our kiosk (tablet). We have staff available to assist if you have any questions. Please bring your voter information letter and wear your mask.

If you have lost your Voter Information Letter, or if you need any other assistance to cast your vote, please feel free to visit us at the Legion or call the Election helpline at 902-523-1356. 

Advance Polls will be Saturday, October 10th and Tuesday, October 13th at Town Hall from 12noon until 8pm. 

​Regular Poll will be Saturday, October 17th from 8am until 7pm at the Mahone Bay Legion. 

If you haven't had a chance to watch the Candidate Forum, you can watch it online here. 

​Dial 1-888-356-4178 (the phone number will be on the Election Page of our website)

• A voice prompt will welcome you
• Enter your date of birth followed by # (example: March 9, 1952 = 03091952#)
• Enter your unique PIN, which you received by mail, followed by # (example: 12345678#)
• A voice will tell you that you are voting for Councillors because the position for Mayor and Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial have been won by acclamation
• You will be given instructions on how to vote for each candidate - each candidate has a number based on alphabetical order and you will press the number corresponding to your first selection and then be prompted to make your next selection, until you have voted for six councillors.
• Press # to confirm your selection or 0 (zero) to change your selections
• You'll hear a voice repeat back your selections and then you're done.

We will have tablets available for you to vote using the online voting method described above. Tablets will be sanitized between voters. 

Municipal Elections are different than federal and provincial elections because they are run by employees of the municipality - even election staff are technically employed by the municipality. This is why municipalities do not provide biographies nor a platform for candidates. 

You will have noticed that Candidate Forums are provided by third-party, arm's length, organizations, such as Chambers of Commerce. 

This year the Mahone Bay and Area Chamber of Commerce found a way to still provide a platform for Candidates and published Candidate biographies in their recent newsletter. 

If there is a candidate that you have not yet heard from, you are welcome to contact the Election Team at 902-523-1356 or election@townofmahonebay.ca and we can share their contact information. 

You should have received your Voter Information Letter in your mail by now. 

Your Voter Information Letter will contain the instructions for how to vote, by phone, internet, or in person at one of our voting kiosks. This letter will also contain the unique PIN that you will use to cast your vote. 
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If you have not received your Voter Information Letter, please contact Town Hall at 902-624-8327 or election@townofmahonebay.ca and we will make sure that you receive everything you need. 

For those who prefer to go to a polling station, we will have three opportunities to do so. While we will not have paper ballots, we will have a voting kiosk (a tablet) ready for you to vote online. 

The Tablets give us the opportunity to sanitize thoroughly between voters to ensure that we make this as safe of an election as possible, despite the ongoing pandemic. 

The Revised 2020 List of Electors has been prepared, but you can still send us your information to make sure that your information is current on the list of voters for the 2020 election. A  notice  was send to all residents of Mahone Bay and you can still use that to send us current information for all members of your household who are eligible to vote.
Eligible voters are:
- 18 years or older on or before October 3, 2020

• - a Canadian citizen
• - ordinarily resident in Nova Scotia on or before April 2, 2020 and currently reside in the Town of Mahone Bay

If you still have not sent the form to Town staff, please do so as soon as possible by the following means:

• In person at Town Hall, 493 Main Street (by appointment due to COVID-19 precautions)
• Fax - 902-624-8069
• Email:
• Mail: PO Box 530, Mahone Bay, NS   B0J 2E0
• Mail slot next to Town Hall front door