{"id":179515,"date":"2025-09-30T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179515\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:51:07","slug":"neethsn-shan-is-councillor-elect-in-scarborough-rouge-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179515\/","title":{"rendered":"Neethsn Shan is councillor-elect in Scarborough-Rouge River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unofficial results show Neethan Shane winning the byelection by 1,800 votes in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A familiar face is heading back to Toronto City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neethan Shan, who represented the former ward of Scarborough-Rouge River almost eight years ago before Premier Doug Ford reduced the number of city councillors in Toronto by half, is the new councillor-elect for Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shan won the byelection with just under 27 per cent of the vote, beating his next closest opponent Anu Sriskandarajah by about 1,800 votes, according <a href=\"https:\/\/electionresults.toronto.ca\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/electionresults.toronto.ca\/\">unofficial results<\/a> posted by the City of Toronto online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPeople know that I have a track record of doing things, that I\u2019m a hard worker. I\u2019ve been on the ground,\u201d Shan, a former Toronto District School Board chair, said on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not somebody who distances myself. I do things, so that resonated with people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shan is vowing to \u201cbuild capacity\u201d across the different neighbourhoods in his ward,\u201d adding that is constituents will \u201cfind a voice through me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He replaces Jennifer McKelvie, who vacated the seat when she was elected as the new Liberal MP for Ajax last spring. In 2018, McKelvie narrowly unseated Shan, winning in Scarborough-Rouge River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coun. Ausma Malik along with Mayor Olivia Chow attended Shan\u2019s event tonight, offering their congratulations to the newest member of council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(Neethan) will champion the needs of people in Scarborough, whether it be building more homes that people can afford, making life more affordable, better city services,\u201d Chow said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BAG6XMMMWJHZLJGK4O3TE7LTV4.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"353\"\/>Chow, Neethan Shan Sept. 29 Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow congratulates Neethan Shan, the new counillor-elect for Scarborough-Rouge River, on Sept. 29. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In total, 20 candidates were vying for the seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shan will hold the seat until the next municipal election, which is slated to take place in October 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News Toronto\u2019s Alison Hurst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unofficial results show Neethan Shane winning the byelection by 1,800 votes in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-179515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}