{"id":951649,"date":"2026-10-30T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951649\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:00:47","slug":"brampton-election-results-brown-leads-every-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951649\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton election results: Brown leads, every ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City councillor: Dennis Keenan led with 12,962 votes (66.11 per cent). Gita Devi Dawadi Dhakal followed with 2,486. All 45 voting locations for this contest had reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wards 7 and 8<\/p>\n<p>Regional councillor: Rod Power led with 11,348 votes (53.61 per cent). Aman Sharma followed with 3,236. All 43 voting locations for this contest had reported.<\/p>\n<p>City councillor: Taran Chahal led with 6,573 votes (30.85 per cent). Monica Singh Soares followed with 4,414. All 43 voting locations for this contest had reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wards 9 and 10<\/p>\n<p>Regional councillor: Sukhman Sangha led with 7,406 votes (25.24 per cent). Gurpreet Singh Dhillon followed with 7,120. All 50 voting locations for this contest had reported.<\/p>\n<p>City councillor: Harkirat Singh led with 8,393 votes (29.00 per cent). Azad Goyat followed with 5,282. All 50 voting locations for this contest had reported.<\/p>\n<p>The closest council contest<\/p>\n<p>The smallest gap between the top two candidates across the ten council races was in the Wards 9 and 10 regional contest. Sukhman Sangha\u2019s 7,406 votes put him 286 ahead of Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, who received 7,120. That is the margin in the posted unofficial count, not a certified outcome or an announcement that a recount will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Vote shares are calculated within each office\u2019s candidate-vote total. They should not be read as shares of everyone eligible to vote or compared with another contest\u2019s raw vote totals as a measure of citywide support.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout and what happens next<\/p>\n<p>The results system reports 123,133 ballots cast and uses 428,012 registered voters, putting turnout at 28.77 per cent. The ballot total includes people who did not record a valid choice in every contest, which is why it differs from the mayoral candidate-vote total.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/document\/2026-voters-guide-ontario-municipal-council-and-school-board-elections\/after-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 voters\u2019 guide<\/a> says municipal results become official when the clerk makes the declaration, usually after checks following Voting Day. No certification date is established by the unofficial totals themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brampton.ca\/EN\/City-Hall\/Election\/Pages\/Key-Dates.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">election calendar<\/a> lists November 15 as the start of the new council term and requires campaign signs to be removed before 8 p.m. on October 29.<\/p>\n<p>For the distinction between preliminary returns and a formal declaration, see <a href=\"https:\/\/bramptonist.com\/news\/brampton-election-results-when-counts-become-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bramptonist\u2019s election results process guide<\/a>. These Brampton election results cover the mayor and all ward-based city and regional council contests; the City\u2019s portal also lists school-board races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City councillor: Dennis Keenan led with 12,962 votes (66.11 per cent). Gita Devi Dawadi Dhakal followed with 2,486.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-951649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951649","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=951649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}