🇨🇦 Canada Municipal Elections · 2026

City of Vaughan

ON · election day Monday, October 26, 2026 · in 11 days

Lower · part of Regional Municipality of York

265,000
eligible voters 2026
27.0%
turnout in 2022
10
seats on the ballot
26
certified candidates
10
incumbents running
323,103
population
Greater Toronto Area km²
land area
Mayor 1 to be elected2 candidates
Shelly-Ann Starlette Cerrelli 🔎
🔎 Shelly Cerrelli Certified as Candidate for Mayor of Vaughan in Two-Candidate Race
Steven Del Duca Incumbent Elected 2022 · Mayor (38.1%) 🔎
Councillor (Regional And City) 4 to be elected10 candidates
Alex Nascimben 🔎
Alireza Siadatan 🔎
Bob Santos 🔎
Fitz-Roy Gordon 🔎
Gino Rosati Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor (Regional And City) 🔎
Linda D. Jackson Incumbent 🔎
Mandy Rai Ran 2022 · Councillor (Regional And City) 🔎
Mario Di Nardo Ran 2022 · Councillor (Regional And City) 🔎
Mario Ferri Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor (Regional And City) 🔎
Mario G. Racco Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor (Regional And City) 🔎
Councillor — Ward 1 1 to be elected4 candidates
Angela Saggese 🔎
Marilyn Iafrate Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor, Ward 1 🔎
Nadeem Mahmood 🔎
Vince Scaramuzzo Ran 2022 · Councillor, Ward 1 🔎
Councillor — Ward 2 1 to be elected3 candidates
Adriano Volpentesta Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor, Ward 2 🔎
Anna DeBartolo 🔎
Pedro Benevides 🔎
Councillor — Ward 3 1 to be elected2 candidates
Asadullah Aminpur 🔎
Rosanna DeFrancesca Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor, Ward 3 🔎
Councillor — Ward 4 1 to be elected4 candidates
Chris Ainsworth Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor, Ward 4 🔎
Deven Sandhu 🔎
Karim Aziz 🔎
Nirmala Ramlall 🔎
Councillor — Ward 5 1 to be elected1 candidates
Gila Martow Incumbent Elected 2022 · Councillor, Ward 5 🔎

🗞 On the radar — local coverage

Headlines from the campaign period, via Google News — quoted, not paraphrased.

📊 2022 in review

Turnout in 2022: 27.0% (60,935 of 225,983 eligible voters). Full certified results: AMO 2022 portal.

Mayor

✅ Steven Del Duca22,699 votes · 38.1%
Sandra Yeung Racco21,848 votes · 36.6%
Danny DeSantis7,591 votes · 12.7%
Paul Donofrio2,697 votes · 4.5%
Lino Mancinella2,427 votes · 4.1%
Parveen Bola1,492 votes · 2.5%
Robert Gulassarian880 votes · 1.5%

Councillor (Regional And City)

✅ Linda Jackson28,398 votes ·
✅ Mario Ferri27,937 votes ·
✅ Gino Rosati27,457 votes ·
✅ Mario G. Racco19,564 votes ·
Nick Pinto18,467 votes ·
Carrie Liddy12,502 votes ·
Mario Di Nardo12,298 votes ·
John Santoro10,113 votes ·
Mandy Rai9,524 votes ·

Councillor, Ward 1

✅ Marilyn Iafrate8,771 votes ·
Vince Scaramuzzo2,020 votes ·
Justin Piersanti828 votes ·
Sony Abraham766 votes ·
Maeda Aslam645 votes ·
Stephen Jefferey Fefer523 votes ·

Councillor, Ward 2

✅ Adriano Volpentesta7,229 votes ·
Tony Carella4,042 votes ·
Simone Barbieri1,150 votes ·
Lena Ibrahim433 votes ·
Meera Anand278 votes ·
Bryan Gary Groulx277 votes ·

Councillor, Ward 3

✅ Rosanna DeFrancesca6,643 votes ·
Ty Ty Nguyen2,407 votes ·
Victor Lacaria2,373 votes ·
Gino Nardi693 votes ·
Tony Lorini665 votes ·
Philip James Piluris86 votes ·

Councillor, Ward 4

✅ Chris Ainsworth2,705 votes ·
Styles Q Weinberg1,573 votes ·
Nadia Rosati1,071 votes ·
Erlinda Insigne627 votes ·
Jacob Joel Ginsburg562 votes ·
Meenakshi Sudarshan447 votes ·

Councillor, Ward 5

✅ Gila Martow6,601 votes ·
Alan Shefman5,497 votes ·
Sources: official candidate listing · 2022 certified results