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2026 Municipal Election
Mayor, all 15 wards of city council, and both school boards' trustee races. Election Day is Monday, October 26, 2026.
Hamilton East—Stoney Creek By-Election
A provincial seat at Queen's Park, vacated following Neil Lumsden's retirement. Voting day is expected Thursday, September 3, 2026 — the writ has not yet been issued, so every date and figure on that side of the site is labelled "expected" until Elections Ontario confirms it.
A switcher above the masthead moves between the two — it's navigation, not a filter, so every fresh visit lands on the municipal side.
- Candidate comparisons on the by-election side use direct quotes only, each with a source and date, and distinguish "not asked" from "no response" from "declined to answer."
This site is a service provided by Joey Coleman, publisher of TPR Hamilton, ThePublicRecord.ca.
ThePublicRecord.ca is Joey Coleman's independent news service covering Hamilton City Hall. Coleman holds two national distinctions in journalism, public policy and municipal affairs: a William Southam Journalism Fellowship at Massey College, University of Toronto (2019), and an Action Canada Fellowship with the Public Policy Forum (2023).
Joey has provided in-person coverage of thousands of meetings in Hamilton since 2010. He attended his first council meeting as a teenager in 1996.
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