Chow re-elected with 54.16 per cent: Toronto gives her a full four-year term
Politics · The Canadian Chronicle
Published Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Olivia Chow has been re-elected mayor of Toronto, winning her first full four-year term after first taking the office in the 2023 byelection. The City of Toronto's unofficial results give Chow 532,201 votes, 54.16 per cent, to 404,013 votes, 41.11 per cent, for city councillor Brad Bradford — a margin of 128,188 votes. Turnout was 45.84 per cent. The final published poll of the campaign, from Liaison Strategies, had put Chow at 52 per cent and Bradford at 44 per cent; the actual gap of 13.05 points was wider than any final poll showed.
In her victory speech Chow said: "The people of Toronto have spoken. I am grateful, I am humble and I am so proud of our city. What an election, it was a hard-fought election." Bradford conceded and congratulated her: "The people of Toronto have spoken and they have decided that she will be returning to the mayor's office. She is the mayor of the city. Nobody can doubt that, it's undisputable and she has my good wishes."
Chow's re-election pitch rested on her record — the deal uploading city expressway costs to the province, tighter rules for bad-faith evictions, and reduced 911 wait times — and on new promises the city will now judge her by: 10,000 new rental homes, a TTC fare cap that makes rides free after 10 paid trips in a week, an expanded school food program, and property-tax increases kept around the rate of inflation. The Record tracks each of those promises from today; the first test is Budget 2027.