Peel Regional Police Association President Adrian Woolley (left) and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown in Brampton on Sept. 29, 2026.
The ballots are coming in, and voters have chosen Patrick Brown to be mayor of Brampton for the third time.
Voters went to the polls on Monday for the Ontario 2026 municipal elections, and early results show Brown winning his third term as the head of Brampton City Council.
The City of Brampton’s data as of 11:30 p.m. shows Brown winning again in Brampton on Monday night with over 55 per cent of the vote.
Other candidates vying for the city’s top job included Gurdeep Singh Dhothar, Vidya Sagar Gautam, Prabh Gill, Najma Khurram, Nathaniel Peart, Prabhjot Kaur Sidhu and Gaurav Walia, local realtor Paul Tarriwal, non-profit worker Sandeep Somal, entrepreneur Jagruti Bhatt and 2018 Brampton mayoral candidate Wesley Jackson.
Brown was first elected in 2018 with 44.43 per cent of the vote, defeating then-incumbent Linda Jeffery, who was elected in 2014 after serving as a member of parliament for Brampton.
A career politician and former Ontario PC leader, Brown’s path to becoming mayor of Brampton started following allegations of sexual misconduct that saw him ousted from the party. The mayor has always denied the accusations, which led to a settlement with CTV News.
In the 2022 mayoral race, he faced off against five other candidates – Nikki Kaur, Bob Dosanjh Singh, Vidya Sagar Gautam, Prabh Kaur Mand, and Tony Moracci. The closest candidate to challenge Brown in that race was Kaur, who received around 25 per cent of the vote.
Brown cruised into a second term in Brampton later that year with 59.65 per cent of votes.
During the election, Brown said, if elected, he would continue his work on combating crime, keeping taxes low, creating the jobs of tomorrow and finishing construction of Brampton’s second hospital.
He skipped two debates during the 2026 election.
Low taxes, keeping the community safe and finishing Brampton’s second hospital are some of the priorities Brown says he will focus on if he’s elected for a third term.
Prior to the 2022 mayoral election, Brown made a failed bid for Conservative Party of Canada leader but was disqualified over allegations that his campaign broke election finance rules. The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections dismissed the allegations in 2024.
Brown’s tenure in Brampton has seen its share of turmoil, including a bloc of City Councillors who skipped meetings in 2022 to protest of what they called “authoritarian dictatorship” under Brown, a scrapped forensic audit during the $629,000 Brampton U scandal, and attempted foreign interference in his 2022 Conservative leadership campaign.
LiUNA Local 506 (representing around 8,000 construction workers across the Greater Toronto Area), the Peel Regional Police Association, ATU Local 1573 (which has some 1,500 members including transit operators, maintenance & office staff for the City of Brampton’s Transit Division) and other unions gave their endorsements to Brown as he sought a third term in Brampton.
Less than a quarter (24.56 per cent) of Brampton’s 35,4884 eligible voters cast ballots in the 2022 municipal election, down from 34.5 per cent in the 2018 vote, according to data from the city.
According to the City of Brampton, nearly 25,000 voters participated during five days of advance voting on Oct. 9, 10, 11, 16 and 17. The city says there were 427,274 eligible voters in Brampton for the 2026 municipal election.
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