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Ward 15 Don Valley West 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 a by-election in 2024, with Rachel Chernos Lin elected to succeed Jaye Robinson as the councillor for the 2022–2026 term.
On 4 November 2024, she won a by-election to replace the late Jaye Robinson on Toronto City Council. [2] She represents Ward 15 Don Valley West. [3] In 2018, her political career started when she was elected as a TDSB school trustee for Ward 11. [4] She was re-elected as the Ward 11 trustee in the October 2022 municipal election. [5]
The four member Toronto Board of Control was introduced with the 1904 election and was accompanied by a reduction in the number of alderman elected per ward from four to three. The Board of Control was abolished with the 1969 municipal election. Toronto had 39 aldermen (3 elected in each of 13 wards) in 1890 and 1891.
May 16, 2024: Ward 15 Don Valley West councillor Jaye Robinson dies. [11] June 26, 2024: The council seat for Ward 15 Don Valley West is formally declared vacant and a by-election is called. [12] November 4, 2024: Former Toronto District School Board trustee Rachel Chernos Lin is elected in the Ward 15 by-election. [13]
Robinson ran again for Councillor for Toronto City Council in the 2018 municipal election in the newly constituted Ward 15 Don Valley West, which has the same boundaries as the federal and provincial ridings with the same name. She defeated the incumbent councillor for former Ward 26, Jon Burnside. [11] [12]
May 13: Municipal by-election in Ward 4, Ramara, Ontario [26] May 15: Champagne and Aishihik First Nations council by-election [27] May 18: Municipal by-election in Tahsis, British Columbia [28] May 19: Municipal by-election in District 3, Chazel, Quebec; May 21: 2024 Pictou West provincial by-election in Nova Scotia.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, councillor for Ward 13 Toronto Centre and its predecessor since 2010, resigned to run for the Ontario NDP in the 2022 Ontario general election. [15] Robin Buxton Potts was appointed by council to fill the vacancy created by Wong-Tam's resignation and pledged to act as a caretaker councillor and not run in the election. [8]
[13] [14] The by-election is projected to cost the city approximately $13 million to run. [15] Municipal elections in Toronto are non-partisan, and are held under first-past-the-post voting . The City Clerk's Office announced that it would recommend the nomination period open on April 3, 2023, and close on May 12, with the by-election to be ...