Ontario · Condominium Act, 1998
Enter how many units your corporation has and which meeting you're holding. Quorum is 25% of the units — but for an AGM or a turn-over meeting it can fall to 15% once you've already tried twice.
Who turned up (optional)
Quorum requires
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✓ Verified October 6, 2026 · Condominium Act, 1998, s. 50
Sources checked automatically every Monday. Last check October 5, 2026, no change found. See the record
| 25% | Of the units, for any meeting of owners that is not an AGM, a turn-over meeting, a phase-related meeting under s. 42(6), or a prescribed meeting. There is no reduced fallback for these. | s. 50(1) |
| 25% → 25% → 15% | For an AGM (s. 45(2)), a turn-over meeting (s. 43) or a prescribed meeting: 25% on the first attempt, 25% again on the second, and 15% only on the third or later attempt. | s. 50(1.1) |
| Counted how | An owner must be entitled to vote, and be present in person or by proxy, to count toward quorum. Voting is one vote per unit (s. 51(2)). | s. 50(2) |
| One owner | If the corporation has only one owner, that owner present in person or by proxy constitutes a meeting. | s. 50(3) |
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Section 50 of the Condominium Act, 1998 sets quorum as a share of the units in the corporation, not a share of the people who show up. The default sits in subsection (1):
"A quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of owners, other than a meeting of owners mentioned in subsection 42 (6), section 43 or subsection 45 (2) or such other meetings that are prescribed, is those owners who own 25 per cent of the units in the corporation."
That is a flat 25% with no fallback. A meeting requisitioned by owners under section 46 is not on the excluded list, so it sits here: repeated attempts at a requisitioned meeting do not unlock a lower number.
The reduced ladder lives in subsection (1.1), and it applies to a narrower set — a meeting "mentioned in section 43 or subsection 45 (2) or such other meetings that are prescribed". Section 45(2) is the annual general meeting, and section 43 is the turn-over meeting at which owners elect a new board once the declarant no longer owns the majority. For those:
"(a) those owners who own 25 per cent of the units … if it is the first attempt to hold the meeting; (b) those owners who own 25 per cent … if a quorum is not present at the first attempt and it is the second attempt; or (c) subject to subsection (1.2), those owners who own 15 per cent … if a quorum is not present at the second attempt and it is the third or subsequent attempt."
A by-law can take the 15% away. Subsection (1.2) lets a corporation register a by-law under s. 56(9) providing that quorum is 25% throughout. If your corporation has one, the third-attempt drop does not apply to you, so check the registered by-laws before relying on the lower figure.
You cannot use a reduced-quorum meeting to slip business through. Subsection (1.3) says that at a second or third attempt no vote may be taken "on any matter other than routine procedure unless that matter was clearly disclosed in the notice of first attempt to hold the meeting". Reaching quorum at the third attempt does not let the meeting decide something that was not on the original notice.