If you move, it is important to notify the Directeur général des élections du Québec so that your address on the permanent list of electors can be corrected. You can make your change of address using the Service québécois de changement d'adresse. This service allows you to communicate your new address to six government departments and agencies at the same time.
If you wish to communicate your new address to the Directeur général des élections only, other options are also available.
The permanent list of electors is used to compile the lists of electors used in provincial, municipal and school elections. Establishing this list has made it possible to eliminate the door-to-door enumeration.
The permanent list of electors is made up of the register of electors and the register of territories.
Register of electors
The register of electors is made up of
- the list of electors used in the most recent election;
- the changes made to that list at the time of provincial, municipal and school elections;
- information on electors qualified at that time to vote as electors outside Québec. Such information includes the name, residential address, sex and date of birth of each elector and, where applicable, an indication that the elector is qualified to vote as an elector outside Québec.
This information and the register of beneficiaries of the Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec are cross-tabulated in order to assign a code to each elector. This code enables the Régie to transmit to the Directeur général des élections du Québec any change in respect of a given elector’s identity or address. The register of electors is updated on a permanent basis.
The data making it possible to update the register of electors is obtained from 10 different sources of information:
- the elector;
- the Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec;
- Elections Canada;
- Citizenship and Immigration Canada;
- the revision of the list of electors conducted after an order or writ is issued for an election (by-election or general election) or referendum;
- the changes made to the municipal list of electors or the municipal referendum list;
- the Curateur public du Québec;
- the permanent board of revisors;
- an enumeration, a revision or any other measure allowing a total or partial verification of the list that may be ordered by the government further to the report and recommendations presented each year to the Assemblée nationale by the Directeur général des élections du Québec;
- the changes made to the schoolboard list of electors.
Register of territories
This register is made up of 3 subregisters:
- the address subregister, which includes the residential addresses of the persons registered in the register of electors;
- the subregister of electoral territories, which includes the descriptions of the provincial electoral divisions, the municipal districts or wards, and the school divisions;
- the subregister of judicial territories, which includes the descriptions of the districts.
Confidential nature of data
Data concerning electors registered on the permanent list of electors is used to produce lists of electors for the purposes of school, municipal, provincial or federal elections, or for municipal referendums.
Access to the lists of electors derived from the permanent list of electors is strictly limited to polling purposes. Consequently, the data contained in the permanent list of electors (name, address, age and sex) is not public information within the meaning of the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information .
Limiting access to the lists of electors in this way serves to ensure that the information provided by electors to the Directeur général des élections for polling purposes remains confidential.
It is strictly prohibited to use or divulge (or to allow any person to divulge) information concerning an elector for any purposes other than those stipulated by law without the consent of the person in question.
Clientele
Any person who qualifies as an elector can be registered on the permanent list of electors.
Conditions
An elector must give his or her consent in order to be registered on the permanent list of electors. An elector’s name remains on the list for as long as he or she wishes to remain registered, provided the individual continues to qualify as an elector. The elector’s name will also appear on all lists of electors (provincial, municipal, school) he or she may choose.
If there is any change to an elector’s data, the elector must notify the
Directeur général des élections.
Note
Persons not wishing to have their name appear on the permanent list of electors have the option of registering only for individual elections. If they choose this option, their names will not be entered on the permanent list and their registration will be valid only for the forthcoming election.
