The City of Lethbridge is hiring people to work on the 2025 municipal elections. (Photo: Lethbridge News Now)

By David Opinko

City of Lethbridge hiring hundreds of election workers

Aug 15, 2025 | 9:33 AM

Anyone looking for a few weeks of work in Lethbridge can help out with the 2025 municipal elections.

The City of Lethbridge says it is planning to hire “several hundred workers” for a variety of positions, including:

• Assistant Presiding Deputy Returning Officer: assists the presiding deputy returning officer
• Deputy Returning Officer: deals with electors, ballots and ballot boxes
• Information officer: assists electors with identification and registration
• Institutional/Assisted at home: conducts the elections at institutions and assisted at home
• Ballot counters: manual counting of ballots

Applications are being accepted until September 2. Successful candidates will be contacted by the City of Lethbridge and training for election workers will begin in mid-September.

The jobs will run from October 8-22, 2025.

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Election workers must be at least 18 years old and eligible to work in Canada.

You can apply online here. Anyone with questions can send an email to election@lethbridge.ca

More coverage of the 2025 Municipal Election is available here.