The 2022 Toronto mayoral election was held on October 24, 2022, to elect the mayor of Toronto. The election took place alongside the

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, which elected city councillors and school board trustees.

John Tory John Howard Tory (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian politician who has served as the 65th and current mayor of Toronto since 2014. After a career as a lawyer, political strategist and businessman, Tory ran as a mayoral candidate in the 2003 ...

was re-elected for a third term as mayor, defeating urbanist Gil Peñalosa and 29 other candidates. Tory was first elected as Mayor of Toronto in the 2014 election and was re-elected in

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. He launched his third re-election bid on May 2, 2022. If Tory serves at least 3 years of his term, he would become Toronto's longest serving mayor, surpassing Art Eggleton who was Mayor from 1980 to 1991. A total of 31 candidates were nominated.

Mayoral debates

Several mayoral debates took place during the campaign. Incumbent

took part in two debates. The first took place on 13 October (a debate staged by

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and Zoomer Radio), featuring Tory, Gil Penalosa, Chloe-Marie Brown, Sarah Climenhaga and Jack Yan. A second took place on October 17, staged by the

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. Five candidates were invited: Brown, Climenhaga, Penalosa, Stephen Punwasi and Tory. Other debates have took place, albeit without John Tory participating. Some criticized the lack of debates, noting that previous mayoral elections featured as many as 10 mayoral debates across the city.

Candidates

Registration for candidates for the office of mayor officially opened on Monday, May 2, 2022. The deadline for candidate nominations closed Friday, August 19 at 2 p.m. 31 candidates were nominated.

Declined

* Mike Layton, Councillor for

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. *

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, Councillor for

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(2014 - 2022). *

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, third-place finisher in 2018 mayoral election.

Results

Unofficial results are taken from the

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website.

Polls

References

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