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Updated: October 29, 2026, 11:50 a.m. EDT (Toronto) Scott Gillingham won a second term as Winnipeg mayor in Wednesday’s municipal election, October 28, with the city’s unofficial results showing all 245 reporting locations counted. Gillingham received 80,206 votes, or 39.82 per cent, according to the City of Winnipeg’s results dashboard . Kevin Klein finished second with 41,703 votes, or 20.71 per cent, followed by Noah Redden with 39,962 votes, or 19.84 per cent. CityNews independently reported Gillingham’s re-election on Wednesday night. The incumbent defeated 11 challengers to secure another four-year term, returning to an office he first won in 2022. His campaign commitments included hiring more police officers, continuing a crisis-response service for non-emergency calls involving mental health and addictions, and improving transit safety. He also pledged continued work with Manitoba’s government on housing people living in encampments. On taxes, his platform proposed a 3.5 per c...

Updated: October 27, 2026, 4:55 p.m. EDT Patrick Brown has won a third term as mayor of Brampton, Ontario, after Monday’s municipal election, with all 164 voting locations reporting in the city’s unofficial count. The City of Brampton’s results dashboard , last updated at 11:32 p.m. on October 26, lists Brown with 65,893 votes, or 54.90 per cent. Wesley Jackson finished second with 23,236 votes and 19.36 per cent, followed by Prabh Gill with 15,257 votes and 12.71 per cent. That puts Brown 42,657 votes ahead of Jackson. The city recorded 123,133 ballots cast across the municipal election, a turnout of 28.77 per cent. Those figures cover the election overall; the mayoral race recorded 120,025 votes. Brown first became Brampton’s mayor in 2018 and won re-election in 2022. His latest campaign emphasised infrastructure, health care, transit and public safety, with a focus on completing projects already under way, The Local reported in its October 26 election coverage . At his victory...

Updated: 27 October 2026, 11:54 a.m. EDT Keanin Loomis has won Hamilton’s mayoral election, with the city’s unofficial results naming him mayor-elect after voting on Monday, 26 October. Incumbent Andrea Horwath finished third, behind Loomis and councillor Rob Cooper. The city’s results dashboard , checked Tuesday morning with all 237 polls reporting, showed Loomis with 61,040 votes, or 41.77%. Cooper had 46,573 votes, or 31.87%, while Horwath received 21,223 votes, or 14.52%. The figures put Loomis 14,467 votes ahead of Cooper. The city recorded 147,196 ballots cast and turnout of 31.59% across the municipality. The results remain unofficial pending certification by the city clerk. CP24 reported Loomis’s victory on Monday night , when most polls had reported. The former Hamilton Chamber of Commerce head most recently served as president and chief executive of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. The result reverses the outcome of the 2022 mayoral contest, when Horwath defeated...

Updated: 27 October 2026, 3:53 a.m. EDT Olivia Chow has won re-election as Toronto mayor after Monday’s municipal vote, defeating challenger Brad Bradford. The CP24–CTV Election Desk declared her victory at 9:59 p.m. on 26 October , and Bradford subsequently conceded. With all 1,431 polls reporting, the city’s unofficial results, updated at 1:10 a.m. on Tuesday , showed Chow with 532,201 votes, or 54.16 per cent. Bradford received 404,013 votes, or 41.11 per cent. That put Chow ahead by 128,188 votes. The totals remain unofficial. The result gives Chow her first full term after she initially became mayor through the 2023 byelection. It also settles a contest that was still being counted when early returns showed her leading with fewer than one-third of polls reporting. Affordability was central to her campaign. Her pledges included freezing TTC fares, making transit free after 10 paid rides a week and expanding school meals to include lunch, CP24 reported . These are campaign commi...

Updated: 26 October 2026, 9:51 p.m. EDT Olivia Chow led Brad Bradford in Toronto’s mayoral election count on Monday night, 26 October, with fewer than one-third of polling locations reporting. The city’s results remained unofficial and no winner had been declared in the race. At the City of Toronto’s 9:49:35 p.m. update , Chow had 209,380 votes, or 52.03 per cent, compared with Bradford’s 173,271 votes, or 43.06 per cent. The mayoral tally included results from 408 of 1,431 polls. The figures are a snapshot of an incomplete count, rather than a final result. The city’s election website updates automatically as additional results arrive and explicitly labels the totals unofficial. CTV News’s election coverage , updated at 9:36 p.m., described the contest between Chow and Bradford as too close to call. It reported that Toronto’s results had been delayed until 9 p.m. after long lines at some polling stations. Chow is seeking to remain mayor, while Bradford left his Beaches–East York counc...

Updated: 26 October 2026, 8:50 p.m. EDT Alvin Tedjo is projected to become Mississauga’s next mayor after Monday’s municipal election, defeating incumbent Carolyn Parrish and former mayor Bonnie Crombie, according to independent election calls by CP24-CTV News and Global News . The city’s unofficial results , updated at 8:45 p.m. EDT on 26 October, showed Tedjo with 63,508 votes, Parrish with 45,178 and Crombie with 37,477. The city said 89.5 per cent of all its polls were reporting at that point. These were partial, unofficial figures, rather than a certified final result. Tedjo has served on city council since 2022. CTV reported that his campaign included a promise to freeze the city’s portion of residential property taxes for two years, increase the property-tax rebate for seniors and make municipal programs more affordable and accessible for families. The result reverses the outcome of Mississauga’s 2024 mayoral byelection. Global News reported that Tedjo finished second in that c...

Updated: 26 October 2026, 3:49 p.m. EDT Toronto voters were casting ballots on Monday, 26 October, in the city’s municipal election, with voting places open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. local time. The City of Toronto’s election-day notice confirmed the hours and said voters would choose a mayor, councillor and, where eligible, a school board trustee. Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford were making their final appeals for votes as polling continued, according to CP24’s Monday election coverage . Municipal elections were also taking place elsewhere in Ontario to select mayors, councillors and school trustees. The city said eligible voters could use its MyVote service to find their voting place, download or print a digital voter information card and review a sample ballot. Its voter information page also links to identification requirements and assistance available at voting places. Toronto Elections noted that school board ward boundaries often differ from city ward boundaries, directing voters...