Robin Buxton Potts is a Canadian politician who has sat on
Toronto City Council
Toronto City Council is the governing body of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario. Meeting at Toronto City Hall, it comprises 25 city councillors and the mayor of Toronto. The current term began on November 15, 2022.
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in 2022. She was appointed by council to represent
Ward 13 Toronto Centre
Ward 13 Toronto Centre is a municipal Electoral district, electoral division in Toronto, Ontario that has been represented in the Toronto City Council since the 2018 Toronto municipal election, 2018 municipal election. It was last contested in ...
following the resignation of
Kristyn Wong-Tam
Kristyn Wong-Tam (born ) is a Canadian politician who has represented Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2022 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).
They served on Toronto City Council from 2010 to 2022 ...
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Background
Buxton Potts comes from a
public relations
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background. She began her career in
municipal government
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working as a community relations and strategic advisor in the offices of councillors
Adam Vaughan
Adam G. Vaughan (born July 3, 1961) is a Canadian politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2014 until 2021. Vaughan represented the Toronto area riding of Spadina—Fort York as a member of the Liberal Party. He previously sat o ...
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Ceta Ramkhalawansingh
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is a Canadian civil servant and former politician, who was appointed on July 7, 2014 to represent Ward 20 (Trinity—Spadina) on Toronto City Council, following the resignation of Adam Vaughan. before becoming chief of staff in Wong-Tam's office.
Political career
In 2022, Wong-Tam resigned to run for the
New Democratic Party
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(NDP) in the 2022 provincial election. Following her departure, Buxton Potts was appointed by council on June 1, 2022, to serve the remainder of the Wong-Tam's term as Ward 13 councillor. Buxton Potts stated she intended to act as a "caretaker" for the role and would not seek election in Ward 13. During her term as city councillor for Ward 13, Buxton Potts spoke openly about her lived experiences with addiction and campaigned for improved access to addictions treatment.
2022 municipal election
Shortly after being appointed as interim councillor in Ward 13, Buxton Potts announced she would be running in the
2022 Toronto municipal election
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in the neighbouring district,
Ward 11 University—Rosedale
Ward 11 University—Rosedale is a municipal electoral division in Toronto, Ontario that has been represented in the Toronto City Council since the 2018 municipal election. It was last contested in 2022, with Dianne Saxe elected councillor for ...
, which was an
open seat
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. She was defeated, coming in third place with 8.9% of the vote, behind winning candidate
Dianne Saxe
Dianne Saxe is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected to represent Ward 11 University—Rosedale on Toronto City Council following the 2022 municipal election. Before entering politics, Saxe practised environmental law and served as ...