2022 Peel Region Municipal Elections

Peel Region municipal elections, 2022 are part of the larger Ontario municipal elections, that will take place on Monday, October 24, 2022.

Brampton

Mayor

Incumbent mayor Patrick Brown is currently running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. He has yet to file a nomination for the mayoral race.

Registered candidates

* Vidya Sagar Joshi
* Cody Vatcher

Regional council

These members are elected via double direct election, serving both on Brampton City council and Peel Regional council.

Wards 1 & 5

Registered candidates
* Paul Vicente (incumbent)

Wards 2 & 6

Registered candidates
* Michael Palleschi (incumbent)

Wards 3 & 4

As of May 17, there are no candidates for this position, including incumbent Martin Medeiros.

Wards 7 & 8

Registered candidates
* Pat Fortini (incumbent)

Wards 9 & 10

The incumbent for this ward is Gurpreet Dhillon.

Registered candidates
* Gurpartap Singh Toor

Brampton City Council

Wards 1 & 5

During the current term of council, Rowena Santos was given the City's additional Regional council position.

Registered candidates
* Rowena Santos, incumbent

Wards 2 & 6

The incumbent in the wards is Doug Whillans.

Registered candidates
* Raghav Patel

Wards 3 & 4

As of May 17, there are no candidates for this position, including incumbent Jeff Bowman.

Wards 7 & 8

Incumbent Charmaine Williams was elected as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton Centre in the 2022 provincial election, as part of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Registered candidates
* Michael Farquharson
* Cindy-Ann Williams

Wards 9 & 10

As of May 17, there are no candidates for this position, including incumbent Harkirat Singh.

Caledon

Mayor

Regional council incumbents Jennifer Innis and Annette Groves are running for the position, made empty by the retirement of Allan Thompson.

Registered candidates
* Annette Groves
* Jennifer Innis

Regional Councillor

Ward 1, 2, 3

Registered candidates
* Christina Early (incumbent, area councillor ward 2)
* Johanna Downey (incumbent, regional councillor ward 2)

Ward 4, 5, 6

Registered candidates
* Anthony Caputo

Area Councillors

Ward 1

Registered candidates
* Lynn Kiernan (incumbent)

Ward 2

Registered candidates
* Ramat Gill
* Hunar Kahlon

Ward 3

Registered candidates
* Arjun McNeill

Ward 5

Registered candidates
* Roberto Ricciardi
* Tony Rosa (incumbent)

Ward 6

Registered candidates
* Mary Balinov

Mississauga

Mayor

Bonnie Crombie is the incumbent. She won the 2018 election with 76.68% of the vote.

Crombie's role in the alleged harassment of Karen Ras, leading to her resignation, has been criticized in the media. The ''Toronto Star'' published an opinion piece noting that she and city officials must be "held accountable for failing to support Karen Ras. Crombie, who never shies from journalists, TV cameras or scrums, is suddenly unavailable for media interviews. She seems to be taking a page from Premier Doug Ford’s playbook... This fiasco could signal the end of Crombie’s mayoral reign. Crombie cruised to victory in 2014 after being endorsed by former mayor Hazel McCallion, and has had an easy run — until now."

The only other competitor to place in the double digits was Kevin J. Johnston, who in the months prior to his candidacy been charged by Peel Regional Police for "willfully promoting hatred." (Johnston has since been sentenced to jail in two provinces, and run for Mayor of Calgary.)

Registered candidates
* Bonnie Crombie
* Derek Ramkissoon
* David Shaw
* George Tavares

Council

Ward 1

Registered candidates
* Stephen Dasko (incumbent)

Ward 2

Former Ward 2 councillor Patricia Mullin (1985-2014) was appointed as Ward 2 councillor, February 2. Mullin's appointment was supported by nine of eleven councillors, with Mayor Crombie among those contesting the process of selection.

Mullin's appointment was made after the resignation of Karen Ras in January 2022. Ras revealed in February that the move was following a three year period of her car being keyed, allegedly by fellow councillor Ron Starr. Police did not lay charges, and the city's integrity commissioner refused to investigate.

Ras had won the 2018 election with 92.77% of the vote.

Registered candidates
* Silvia Gualtieri
* Syed Jaffery
* Alvin Tedjo

Ward 3

Registered candidates
* Chris Fonseca (incumbent)

Ward 4

Registered candidates
* Joan Pace Jakobsen
* John Kovac (incumbent)

Ward 5

Registered candidates
* Hamid Akbar
* Ahmad Khan
* Carolyn Parrish (incumbent)

Ward 6

The first registered candidate is Joe Horneck.

Incumbent Ron Starr is in his fourth term on Mississauga council. During the 2018 election, Starr registered to run for Region of Peel Chair — at that point intended to be a directly elected position — leaving his original ward vacant. Faced with a crowded slate of nominees, Starr withdrew that nomination and returned to his original ward. He won by the slimmest margin in the election, with a ''Mississauga News'' columnist noting Joe Horneck's loss "more politically impressive" than some of the wins, having "almost unseated an entrenched council vet in a stable ward." Starr had suggested that the 2018-2022 term might be his last.

Between 2019 and 2021, incumbent councillor Ron Starr is alleged to have keyed the car of councillor Karen Ras eight times. Starr has denied that he is the person pictured in the footage. Ras filed a complaint into the matter, but police did not lay charges, "in consultation with the complainant and the Crown's office." Ras asked the City integrity commissioner Robert Swayze to investigate it as a violation of the council's code of conduct, however the code prevents investigation of possibly criminal acts. According to Ras, Mayor Crombie declined to address the issue. As a result, Ras resigned on January 2022, taking a job elsewhere. After Ras later revealed details of the issue to the media, Mississauga City Council held an "hour-long" closed meeting, resulting in a motion to ask the integrity commissioner to investigate, and asking Starr to take a leave of absence.

Registered candidates
* Joe Horneck
* Muhammad Kamil
* Sachin Ryan Kharbanda

Ward 7

Registered candidates
* Amir Ali
* Dipika Damerla (incumbent)
* Leslie Zurek-Silvestri

Ward 8

Councillor Matt Mahoney is the incumbent.

In 2018, Mahoney was unopposed until the final week of the nomination period.

Registered candidates
* Irfan Farooq
* Matt Mahoney

Ward 9

Incumbent Pat Saito announced plans to retire by at least January 2019, offering to mentor those interested in becoming a candidate.

In 2018, Saito was unopposed until the final week of the nomination period.

Syed Jaffery was previously registered.

Registered candidates
* Charbel Bassil, 2018 candidate for French Separate Trustee
* Isaiah Bryant
* Nokha Dakroub, Peel District School Board trustee
* Bob Delaney, Member of Provincial Parliament from 2003 to 2018
* Frank Fang
* Martin Reid
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Ward 10

Registered candidates
* Brennan Bempong
* Sue McFadden (incumbent)

Ward 11

Registered candidates
* Brad Butt
* Annurag Chawla
* Imran Hasan
* Kushagr Dutt Sharma

References

External links

* City of Brampton
General informationRegistered candidates
* City of Mississauga
General informationRegistered candidates
* Town of Caledon
General informationRegistered candidates

Peel
Regional Municipality of Peel