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2026 Ontario municipal elections
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Municipal elections in Ontario will be held on October 26, 2026.[1] Voters in the Canadian province of Ontario will elect mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of the province's municipalities. This will be the first set of municipal elections to not overlap with a provincial election in the same year since 2010.[2] Municipal elections in Ontario are non-partisan.

Electoral system

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In 2016, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed Bill 181, the Municipal Elections Modernization Act,[3] which permitted municipalities to adopt ranked ballots for municipal elections.[4]

London was the only municipality to use ranked ballots in the 2018 election itself, with the decision in that city being made by London City Council in 2017,[5] while Cambridge and Kingston held referendums concurrently with their 2018 elections on whether to adopt ranked ballots for the next municipal elections in 2022, with both referendums passing.[6][7][8]

However, in 2020 the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed the Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, 2020,[9] which removed the option for ranked choice voting in municipal elections. Therefore, London switched back to First-past-the-post voting for the 2022 election, and the cities of Cambridge and Kingston were not able to switch to ranked ballots.[10]

By municipality

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Counties

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Districts

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Regional municipalities

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Single-tier municipalities

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Municipalities with more than 125,000 people:

Single-tier municipalities

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Municipalities with fewer than 125,000 people:

Belleville

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Map of Belleville's wards

County of Brant

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Map of the County of Brant's five wards

Brantford

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Map of Brantford's five wards

Brockville

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Chatham-Kent

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Map of Chatham-Kent's six wards

Cornwall

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Gananoque

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Haldimand County

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Map of Haldimand County's wards

Kawartha Lakes

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Norfolk County

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Map of Norfolk County's wards

Orillia

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Pelee

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Pembroke

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Peterborough

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Prescott

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Prince Edward County

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Quinte West

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Map of Quinte West's four wards

Smiths Falls

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St. Marys

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Stratford

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St. Thomas

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References

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  1. ^ "Ontario Municipal Elections".
  2. ^ "No ballot required". Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  3. ^ "Bill 181, Municipal Elections Modernization Act, 2016". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  4. ^ "Legislation passes allowing Ontario municipalities to use ranked ballots". The Globe and Mail, June 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "London, Ont., votes to become 1st Canadian city to use ranked ballots". CBC News Windsor, May 2, 2017.
  6. ^ Andrew Coyne, "Election reform is coming to Canada — somewhere, somehow, and soon". National Post, October 6, 2017.
  7. ^ "Cambridge voters approve ranked balloting measure but low turnout could spike it". Global News, October 23, 2018.
  8. ^ "Kingston says "Yes" to electoral reform". Kingstonist, October 23, 2018.
  9. ^ "Bill 218, Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, 2020". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  10. ^ "Method of voting | City of London". london.ca. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  11. ^ https://x.com/CanadianPolling/status/1982843605384650899

Notes

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