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2026 Toronto mayoral election: Olivia Chow wins

Voters went to the polls on 26 October 2026. Olivia Chow became Mayor. Olivia Chow came first with 54.2%, Brad Bradford second with 41.1%.

  • Turnout: 45.84%

The result

Seats, change and vote share as the results table of 2026 Toronto mayoral election gives them; the change is against the seats it lists for the previous election.

Readers: each leader's busiest day around the vote, against their own usual readership. A leader the record names whose busiest day falls in the vote's days was read for the vote.

The small line: each leader's readers over these days. The figure: their busiest day against usual.

  1. Olivia Chow54.16%24× usual seats
    Olivia Chow: readers a day, peak 48.1K on 27 Oct · 24× usual

    See Olivia Chow

  2. Brad Bradford41.11%15× usual seats
    Brad Bradford: readers a day, peak 34.5K on 27 Oct · 15× usual

    See Brad Bradford

Results: 2026 Toronto mayoral election, Wikipedia

How it unfolded

Readers a day, all 2 people82.6K at the peak

This is readers, added together. It is not what the people below are ordered by.

Ordered by how far each rose above their own usual readership, not by fame.

Languages, not countries.

70 days have to pass before we can say whether a rise lasted. 2 of these have not had them yet.

The rise showed up in the Wikipedia editions in English, French and Chinese.

13 October 2026 - 31 October 2026

  • Brad Bradford 50%
  • Olivia Chow
  1. Latest

    Olivia Chow: 1.7K readers, 0.8× usual

  2. Peak

    82.6K readers across 2 people

  4. Election day

    2026 Toronto mayoral election

Also named in the election's article

The article names them too. Each peaked between 25 October and 27 October, around the vote; we do not say why. They are not in the result above.

Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford are in the result above.

  1. Mike Layton39× usual
  2. John Tory20× usual
  3. Doug Ford3.7× usual
  4. Don Davies3.6× usual
  5. Avi Lewis2.6× usual

Also read more that week

Others the article names, read more the same days. We do not say why.