Hello, welcome to Politics Insider, election edition. Today is voting day for Canada’s 45th general election. The Globe and Mail is tracking today’s developments with a live blog you can access here. Check back in as results roll in. This year Canada votes in the shadow of tragedy. Leaders of the major national parties are awaiting voting results two days after a deadly attack in Vancouver left 11 people dead. Parties adjusted the last day of their campaign schedule while Canada mourned. The five-week campaign, which has played out alongside U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and threats to annex Canada, began nine days after Mark Carney was sworn in Prime Minister. Carney, a former central banker in Canada and the United Kingdom, succeeded Justin Trudeau as Liberal Leader on March 9, taking on the role of Prime Minister. This has been Carney’s first campaign in elected politics. It has also been the first campaign as party leader for Pierre Poilievre, a veteran Ottawa-area MP and former cabinet minister under Stephen Harper. Poilievre was elected Leader of the federal Conservative party and leader of the Official Opposition in 2022. This has been Jagmeet Singh’s third election as Leader of the NDP. It has also been a third campaign for Yves-François Blanchet as Leader of the Bloc Québécois. Elizabeth May is in her fifth campaign at the helm of the Green Party, though it is her first in a co-leadership position with Jonathan Pedneault. May did not run in the 2021 election. At that time, Annamie Paul was the leader of the Green Party. A record 7.3 million people voted in advance polls, Elections Canada says, about one-quarter of all registered voters. This is a 25-per-cent increase over the 5.8 million people who voted in advance polls in the 2021 election, the agency said, noting that the numbers are an estimate as some polls may not have reported yet. However, experts say that while turnout at advance polls may have reached a record high this year, it’s unlikely that will hold true for the election as a whole. Open this photo in gallery: A sign for a federal election voting centre stands near the memorial for the victims of a driver who rammed into a crowd during a Filipino festival in Vancouver on April 28.Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press This is the daily Politics Insider newsletter, curated by Ian Bailey . It is available exclusively to our digital subscribers. You can sign up for more than 20 other newsletter on our signup page Election Day How Indigenous groups have been working to get the vote out ahead of the federal election: Indigenous groups across Canada are trying to convince voters to head to the polls, in part through campaigns to encourage First Nations residents to cast ballots in order to weigh in on issues that directly affect them. House rules: To vote in this election, homeless Canadians are testing the odds in a system designed for people with permanent addresses and valid IDs. What voting in Canada’s High Arctic looks like: Getting ballots to High Arctic bases, weather stations and remote regions looks like a military operation. Meanwhile: The new U.S. ambassador to Canada will be presenting his credentials to Governor-General Mary Simon on Tuesday. Pete Hoekstra, who was ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump’s first term, will be among five diplomats appearing before Simon. How to vote Elections Canada has published a number of guides to aspects of the voting process. Among their points: Polls will be open for 12 hours, with various hours staggered across the country. To vote, you must be a Canadian citizen and at least 18 years old on election day. There’s an overview here on ID you need to present to vote. Although Elections Canada provides pencils for marking ballots, you can also use a personal pen. You have to make a clear mark in the circle beside a chosen candidate’s name. No selfies are allowed with marked ballots because doing so violates secrecy provisions of the Canada Elections Act. According to Elections Canada, it’s also a violation of the act to publish a photo of a marked ballot in any way. Elections Canada says it does not use automatic vote-counting machines, Ballots are counted by two election workers, who each count ballots in front of observers including candidates or their representatives. Additional details here. Leader whereabouts: Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is scheduled to watch the elections results in Montreal. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, seeking re-election in his Ottawa-area Carleton riding, is in Ottawa. Green Party Co-Leader Elizabeth May, seeking re-election in the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, is scheduled to watch the election results in Victoria. Party Co-Leader Jonathan Pedneault, seeking election in the Montreal riding of Outremont, is in the riding and scheduled to watch the results in Montreal. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, seeking election as an MP in the riding of Nepean, is in Ottawa. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, seeking re-election as an MP in the riding of Burnaby South, is in Burnaby. Question period What was the turnout in the last federal election, held in 2021? Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for the answer. Got a news tip that you’d like us to look into? E-mail us at tips@globeandmail.com. Need to share documents securely? Reach out via SecureDrop. The answer to today’s question: 62.6 per cent. Voters went to the polls on Sept. 20, 2021. That was a decline from the previous election on Oct. 21, 2019, when the turnout was 67 per cent.