Today, Brampton residents will vote for mayor, city and regional council, and school board trustees.

Including incumbent Mayor Patrick Brown, 12 candidates are running to be the next head of Brampton City Council.

They included local realtor Paul Tarriwal, non-profit worker Sandeep Somal, entrepreneur Jagruti Bhatt and 2018 Brampton mayoral candidate Wesley Jackson.

Other candidates vying for the city’s top job include Gurdeep Singh Dhothar, Vidya Sagar Gautam, Prabh Gill, Najma Khurram, Nathaniel Peart, Prabhjot Kaur Sidhu and Gaurav Walia.

Elected in 2018 after stepping down as Ontario PC Party leader, Brown is seeking a third term as mayor. 

Live Election Results for Brampton

Early results show Patrick Brown winning again in Brampton on Monday night with nearly 55 per cent of the vote, according to the City of Brampton’s data as of 11:30 p.m.

Council

Brampton has 10 wards. 

Candidates declared for Brampton City Council:

All results from the Association of Ontario Municipalities and City of Brampton.

City and Regional Councillor Wards 1&5: Paul Vicente (incumbent) has been declared the winner.
City and Regional Councillor Wards 2&6: Michael Palleschi (incumbent) has been declared the winner.
City and Regional Councillor Wards 3&4: Martin Medeiros (incumbent) has been declared the winner.
City and Regional Councillor Wards 7&8: Rod Power, former City Councillor Wards 7&8, has been declared the winner. The seats was temporarily held by Gael Miles, replacing Pat Fortini, who withdrew his candidacy to run in Caledon.
City and Regional Councillor Wards 9&10: Sukhman Sangha. Sangha replaces Gurpartap Singh Toor, who did not seek re-election.
City Councillor Wards 1&5: Rowena Santos (incumbent) has been declared the winner.
City Councillor Wards 2&6: Navjit Kaur Brar (incumbent) has been declared the winner.
City Councillor Wards 3&4: Dennis Keenan (incumbent) has been declared the winner.
City Councillor Wards 7&8: Taran Chahal has been declared the winner. Chahal replaces Rod Power, who is now City and Regional Councillor Wards 7&8.
City Councillor Wards 9&10: Harkirat Singh (incumbent) has been declared the winner.

The Ward Races

Wards 1 and 5

Eight candidates were looking to unseat incumbent City Coun. Rowena Santos, including Tracy Pepe and Staceyann Brooks, who both challenged Santos in the 2022 municipal election.

Regional Coun. Paul Vicente seat was being challenged by three candidates – school and community advocate Idris Orughu,  Steven Lee, who also ran against Santos in 2022 and got 6.25 per cent of the votes, and Pooja Walia.

Wards 2 and 6

City Coun. Navjit Kaur Brar faced eight challengers for her seat, the most candidates of any single ward in the city. She enters her second term on Brampton City Council after coming into politics from a healthcare and nursing background.

Regional Coun. Michael Palleschi was first elected to Brampton City Council in 2014 and is the son of late former Coun. Paul Palleschi. Six people  challenged him for his seat.

Ward 3 and 4

City Coun. Keenan was seeking re-election after his first term on council and faces five other candidates, while Regional Coun. Martin Medeiros had three challengers to his council seat.

Wards 7 and 8

Regional Coun. Pat Fortini withdrew his candidacy on the deadline day. Wards 7 and 8 City Coun. Power switched to the regional councillor race to replace Fortini, with five other contenders also vying for a seat on council.

The city seat for Wards 7 and 8 came down to Township of Southgate Coun. Monica Singh Soares, local businessman Rakesh Sharma, strategic consultant Nayan Brahmbhatt, Ali Khan, University of Toronto grad Ayanna Kahlon, and Conservative candidate for Brampton Centre in the 2025 federal election, Taran Chahal.

Wards 9 and 10

Deputy Mayor and City Coun. Harkirat Singh, a former School Board Trustee at the Peel District School Board, was elected to city council in 2018. Four candidates in the ward pairing had been in previous elections: Janice Gordon-Daniels (who ran in 2022) and community organizer Azad Goyat (also a city council candidate in 2022), and Cheryl Rodricks (who ran in Wards 7 and 8 in 2014).

And while Regional Coun. Toor didn’t seeking his current council seat in October, former Regional Coun. Gurpreet Singh Dhillon looked to beat seven other candidates to return to Brampton City Council.

The two-time Brampton councillor lost his seat in 2022, and was the only incumbent not re-elected to city council that year following allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment of a female staffer while on a trade mission to Turkey in 2019. The former councillor has said the accusations against him were withdrawn in a letter he says retracts the claims, while the city’s integrity commissioner says she was unable to verify the letter actually came from the complainant.

Lawyer Sukhman Sangha narrowly defeated the former councillor.

School board trustee candidates

Brampton residents chose trustees for the Peel District School Board, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, the Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French public), and the Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (French separate). 

There are 10 seats in total, with some wards being combined. 

English Public Board:

Wards 1&5: Kathy McDonald declared.
Wards 2&6: Chris Campbell declared.
Wards 3&4: Jot Dhaliwal declared.
Wards 7&8: Karla Bailey (incumbent) declared.
Wards 9&10: Khushpal Singh Pawar declared.

English Separate Board:

Wards 1, 3&4: Anisha Thomas (incumbent) declared.
Wards 2, 5&6: Darryl Brian D’Souza (incumbent) declared.
Wards 7, 8, 9&10: Andrea Baranowski declared.

French-language board winners (ward by ward):

Conseil scolaire Viamonde: Pierre Gregory declared.
Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir: Genevieve Grenier (acclaimed)


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