It's election day in Ontario

Ontarians will have 12 hours to cast their ballot today (Thursday).

It’s election day in Ontario and the polls are open from 9 am to 9 pm.

We’ll have updated reports on air and online after the polls close tonight.

As for the advanced polls, Elections Ontario says preliminary figures show 6,386 people in Nipissing cast their ballots early.

Across the province, nearly 769,000 people voted in the advanced polls.

That’s up from the nearly 648,000 people four years ago.

Preliminary figures show voter turnout in the advanced polls this year was 18.8 per cent.

Six candidates are running in Nipissing.