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2026 Toronto municipal election

2026 municipal election in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Municipal elections are scheduled to be held on October 26, 2026, to elect the mayor and 25 city councillors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In addition, school trustees will be elected to the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. The election will be held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario.

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This entry incorporates text from “2026 Toronto municipal election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.