{"id":948408,"date":"2026-10-27T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948408\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:48:18","slug":"alvin-tedjo-elected-mississauga-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948408\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin Tedjo elected Mississauga mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alvin Tedjo beat not only the incumbent but also a former mayor to take Mississauga\u2019s top job Monday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The city councilor secured 39.2 per cent of the vote in the municipal election, 22,626 votes more than Carolyn Parrish and 31,288 more than Bonnie Crombie. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople wanted something new and fresh, some new ideas, some new energy,\u201d Tedjo told CP24 Breakfast on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were struggling with the cost of living, with safety and security, and they wanted somebody I think that was reflective of how they\u2019re feeling in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Results from last night\u2019s election came in quickly, and the CP24-CTV News Election Desk was the first to declare Tedjo as the winner at 8:27 p.m. \u2014 less than 30 minutes after polls closed.<\/p>\n

Tedjo admits the speed of the call caught him off guard, and his team still had \u201chundreds\u201d of people out in the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven my family and my wife and kids hadn\u2019t even made it to the party yet,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we saw things getting declared on television before we were even ready to sort of digest any of this information, so it was it was kind of surreal seeing it kind of play out so quickly, and then you know this call started coming in and it kind of snowballed from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Mississauga saw nearly 40 per cent of its eligible residents vote, nearly double the 21 per cent voter turnout in 2022.<\/p>\n

About 25 per cent of Mississauga voters cast a ballot in the 2024 mayoral byelection won by Parrish. <\/p>\n

Tedjo told CP24 that he believes the higher turnout was \u201ca really important indication that residents want to change and they were really invested in what was happening in this election.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd last night, we were confident in the fact that we knew how many people we needed to go out and vote, and it was just a matter of them showing up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In her concession speech, Parrish said she wouldn\u2019t have done \u201canything differently\u201d on the campaign trail, pointing out that she is \u201cnot one of those people that promises you a pony.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI have an advisor I\u2019ve had for years who says sometimes people don\u2019t want to hear the truth; they want to hear that you\u2019re getting a pony. So, I think that was my mistake, but I would have done it again the same way. I don\u2019t promise people things I can\u2019t deliver,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Tedjo defended his platform, which includes a residential property tax freeze for at least two years<\/a> along with a permanent property tax freeze for qualifying seniors, in response to the outgoing mayor\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we disagree on policy on a couple of things, I think it\u2019s a matter of seeing things differently and imagining that government can do more for you than you might realize,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government can\u2019t be the source of people\u2019s financial troubles, right? We need to tighten our belts before we ask people to tighten theirs, and so whatever it takes, we know it\u2019s going to be difficult. But we need to start the process of making sure that we\u2019re freezing property taxes at the city of Mississauga, so we\u2019re not increasing their burdens here in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what his first order of business will be as mayor, Tedjo said he and his team will table a budget within his administration\u2019s first 100 days. Then, he\u2019ll set his sights on housing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually want to build more homes so that there are more opportunities for young people, especially, to see themselves reflected in the city. I think there\u2019s so much more opportunity, but we\u2019ve lost that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alvin Tedjo beat not only the incumbent but also a former mayor to take Mississauga\u2019s top job Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[712,49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-948408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948408","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=948408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}