Mapping the 2022 Toronto municipal election: Who’s running in your ward?
The election takes place Oct. 24. Here’s an interactive map of Toronto’s 25 wards.
The 2022 Toronto municipal election is upon us. Election day is Oct. 24, with Torontonians electing a mayor and 25 city councillors.
The last Toronto municipal election, held in 2018, was the first to use the 25-ward map. Previously, the city had been comprised of 44.
For those curious, Toronto contains more than 1.89 million registered voters, though nowhere near that number is likely to vote. Incumbent mayor John Tory — running again in 2022 — won the 2018 mayoral election with 479,659 votes, which easily bested the 178,193 garnered by main challenger Jennifer Keesmat.
At the council level, Ana Bailão won Ward 9 Davenport in 2018 with 26,219 votes — the most any city councillor received in the election — while Cynthia Lai won Ward 23 Scarborough North with just 5,589.
Bailão is one of several councillors not seeking reelection this year. This sets up several races without incumbents in and around the downtown core:
Ward 10: Spadina-Fort York
Former councillor: Joe Cressy
Cressy won this seat in 2014 and 2018, and served as chair on the Toronto Board of Health, but announced in October 2021 that he wouldn’t seek re-election.
Twelve candidates are vying to fill the seat in the rapidly changing ward. According to City Hall Watcher, a full 22 per cent of active Toronto housing applications are located in Spadina-Fort York.
Click here for a full ward breakdown from The Local.
Ward 11: University-Rosedale
Former councillor: Mike Layton
It was announced in July that Layton would not be seeking re-election. He had served 12 years as a city councillor.
Fourteen candidates are running for election in Ward 11, the oddly shaped puzzle piece of an electoral district that covers a wide east-west swath of the city and encompasses a range of neighbourhoods from Little Italy to the Annex to (of course) Rosedale.
Click here for a full ward breakdown from The Local.
Ward 13: Toronto Centre
Former councillors: Krysten Wong-Tam, Robin Buxton Potts (interim)
Wong-Tam left council in April to run in the provincial election, and Buxton Potts was appointed interim councillor in June. (The latter is now running in University Rosedale.)
Nine candidates are running to fill a vacant seat in the ward that is both one of Toronto’s smallest and most densely populated.
Click here for a full ward breakdown from The Local.
Ahead of voting day, check out our interactive map execution to see who’s running in each ward, spot voting locations near you, and find links to more information on the candidates.
For further info, check out the City of Toronto’s MyVote web app.
MyVote has everything you need for Toronto’s municipal election.
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