{"id":946864,"date":"2026-10-26T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946864\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:42:37","slug":"voters-across-ontario-head-to-the-polls-for-municipal-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946864\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters across Ontario head to the polls for municipal elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s election day in Ontario, with voters in more than 400 municipalities set to pick their local representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The election is headlined by mayoral races in Toronto, Mississauga and Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Olivia Chow is looking to hold off city councillor Brad Bradford in Toronto, while former Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie appears to be the front-runner to reclaim Mississauga\u2019s top job in a race featuring councillor Alvin Tedjo and incumbent Carolyn Parrish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch live coverage on CityNews 24\/7<\/a> starting at 7:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>In Ottawa, city councillor Jeff Leiper is looking to unseat front-runner Mark Sutcliffe in a race that polls suggest has narrowed in the lead up to Monday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Doug Ford may not be on the ballot but his government\u2019s changes figure prominently in local elections where candidates have sparred over strong mayor powers granted by the province.<\/p>\n<p>No regional chairs will be elected in Waterloo, Niagara and several other upper-tier municipalities after the province recently gave itself the power to appoint them instead.<\/p>\n<p>Eight school boards also remain under provincial supervision, raising questions about the role of trustees to be elected on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793014957_14_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s election day in Ontario, with voters in more than 400 municipalities set to pick their local representatives.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-946864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946864","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=946864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}