2018 Municipal Election: Toronto Council Races

[ShonTron]

It was good the way Milczyn got the subway extended to Honeydale mall. This provides better access to 427, reduces congestion on Dundas, better serves Mississauga and reduces inconvenience during construction.
Oops - that didn't happen. Maybe it would have happened if he were effective.

Wow. Just wow. You really are something else.

 

[JasonParis]

Maybe if we had a mayor that actually put a westward Bloor-Danforth extension as a priority, the province would see that the city was actually serious about the proposal so they would put some money towards the extension and accelerate the work.
The city didn't place this extension as a priority, so why would the province?

I find this as an example of the Ford's just taking Etobicoke for granted and putting more effort into North York and Scarborough. If Rob Ford had pushed for a subway expansion to East Mall (or potentially even Sherway), he may have actually got it.

 

[Videodrome]

So, does DMW slink back to his council seat? Shelly Carroll also lost, so she could do that too.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

So, does DMW slink back to his council seat? Shelly Carroll also lost, so she could do that too.

Yes DMW didn’t resign his seat; no, Shelly Carroll did.

AoD

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Carroll could just take a summer vacation and come back in September and register to run.

 

[Videodrome]

Yes DMW didn’t resign his seat; no, Shelly Carroll did.

AoD

I was shocked that a guy who had no issue getting re-elected for decades lost to a Liberal incumbent in this environment...

 

[W. K. Lis]

The Ontario election results by Toronto ridings, from this link:

• The Beaches-East York riding returned to its NDP roots after candidate Rima Berns-McGown was victorious over one-term liberal incumbent Arthur Potts. Beaches-East York was a long-held NDP riding until the 2014 election, when it went red.
• Marit Stiles for the NDP took Davenport.
• Liberal candidate Michael Coteau took Don Valley East.
• PC candidate Vincent Ke took Don Valley North.
• Kathleen Wynne very narrowly defeated PC candidate Jon Kieran in her home riding, by 181 votes, of Don Valley West.
• PC candidate Robin Martin took Eglinton-Lawrence.
• PC candidate Kinga Surma took Etobicoke Centre.
• PC candidate Christine Hogarth took Etobicoke-Lakeshore.
• No surprise here that Doug Ford won his own riding, Etobicoke North, the "heart of Ford Nation."
• NDP candidate Tom Rakocevic took Humber River-Black Creek.
• NDP candidate Bhutila Karpoche swept the Parkdale-High Park riding — apparently PC candidate Adam Pham's questionable campaign tactics did not work out.
• PC candidate Aris Babikian took Scarborough-Agincourt.
• PC candidate Christina Mitas took Scarborough Centre.
• Liberal candidate Mitzie Hunter won the tightest race by 81 votes, in Scarborough-Guildwood, against PC candidate and police officer Roshan Nallaratnam, who is currently under an internal police investigation after it was alleged he made threats during the campaign.
• PC candidate Raymond Cho took Scarborough North, news that he got in a "physical altercation" with a student at a Scarborough school earlier this week didn't seem to impact his chances.
• PC candidate Vijay Thanigasalam took Scarborough-Rouge Park.
• NDP candidate Doly Begum took Scarborough Southwest.
• NDP candidate Chris Glover took Spadina-Fort York.
• NDP candidate Suze Morrison took Toronto Centre.
• NDP candidate Peter Tabuns took Toronto-Danforth.
• NDP candidate Jill Andrew took Toronto-St. Paul's.
• NDP candidate Jessica Bell took University-Rosedale.
• PC candidate Stan Cho took Willowdale.
• PC candidate Roman Baber took York Centre.
• NDP candidate Faisal Hassan took York-South Weston.

11 Toronto ridings went NDP
11 Toronto ridings went PC
3 Toronto ridings went Liberal

Multiply the ridings by 2 to get wards, we could get 22 leaning for NDP and 22 leaning PC, and 6 leaning Liberal, if we had the party system at the civic level.

Since Tory was PC, that means 1 extra PC. Interesting battle coming October for city council wards.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

How many ex-Liberals are going to find their way into a council run?

 

[DSC]

Rumour now has it that Lucy Troisi ("I will not run in this or any other Ward in the 2018 Election") has now been scared off running against George Smitherman in new Ward 23 and may now run in Ward 21 - where she is none too popular.

 

[christiesplits]

I can definitely see Milcyzn running against Di Ciano to reclaim his old seat.

I wonder if recently defeated Arthur Potts could run for MMM’s vacant seat. He was a municipal lobbyist pre-Queen’s Park and ran in the 90s for council in Riverdale, losing to then environmental activist Peter Tabuns.

 

[Filip]

I can definitely see Milcyzn running against Di Ciano to reclaim his old seat.

I wonder if recently defeated Arthur Potts could run for MMM’s vacant seat. He was a municipal lobbyist pre-Queen’s Park and ran in the 90s for council in Riverdale, losing to then environmental activist Peter Tabuns.

I wonder if Milczyn would be interested in running against Grimes in Ward 6?

Those two really don't like each other, and Milczyn is a Lakeshore boy after all.

 

[Videodrome]

Did Chin Lee resign his seat or just go on leave to run provincially? He lost as well.

 

[Richard White]

Now that Lorenzo Berardinetti lost badly in Scarborough Southwest I wonder how Michelle Holland (his wife) will fare. They are synonymous with the each other and despite changing her name people still know her as Michelle Berardinetti as a Liberal.

It will be interesting to see if she gets dumped this time around.

 

[animatronic]

I wonder if Milczyn would be interested in running against Grimes in Ward 6?

Those two really don't like each other, and Milczyn is a Lakeshore boy after all.

He’d have the best shot against Di Ciano, especially if the OPP investigation moves well. If Di Ciano were knocked out one would assume Milczyn would take it in a cakewalk.

 

[Allandale25]

"Veteran #Toronto city councillor @Janet_Davis to make “significant announcement” Wednesday, 10:15 AM Coxwell and Memorial Park Avenue, just outside the East York Civic Centre."

https://twitter.com/dmrider/status/1006344005930700800?s=19