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City of Toronto Election 2026

The City of Toronto is holding an election on Monday, October 26, 2026. This is an opportunity to vote for our Mayor, your local Councillor, and School Board Trustee. We will share resources here in the weeks leading up to the election.

Have Your Say: Shaping Disability Inclusion in Toronto’s 2026 Election Event

On August 20, 2026, the GTA Disability Coalition (GTADC) and Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT) held a non-partisan City election event that included a review of accessible voting options, how to find local candidates, Social Planning Toronto’s City for All platform, and issues that matter most to cross-disability communities during this election cycle.  

You can watch the recording of the event below!

Mail-In Voting

Registration for Mail-In Voting begins Tuesday September 1st and closes on Thursday September 24th.

For some CILT consumers and disability community members, mail-in voting can provide an accessible option to voice our vote to ensure our community’s priority issues are represented-accessible and deeply affordable housing, disability poverty reduction, accessible and affordable transit, to name a few.

If you’d like to vote by mail, you must register first. Registration for mail-in voting runs from Tuesday September 1st until Thursday September 24th and mail in ballots must be received by October 14 at noon.

Please visit the City of Toronto’s mail in voting site to learn more.

If you require assistance, you can email VoteByMail@toronto.ca, call 311 or 711 on your relay service device.

To find your ward, please visit the City’s ward profiles page to search by address.

For a list of nominated candidates, please visit Toronto’s list of certified candidates. You can filter by ward and some candidates have provided their own contact info or website where you can learn about their platforms.

If you’d like to stay in touch with GTA Disability Coalition’s work leading up to election day, please sign up for our Call to Action News and follow us on Facebook and X.

What We Heard During Have Your Say: Shaping Disability Inclusion in Toronto’s 2026 Election

We invited participants into breakout rooms where they discussed issues and what calls to action they would like to ask of their local candidates. This resource highlights our collective messaging that can be used when speaking to candidates.

Housing calls for candidates to commit to if elected to City Council:

  1. The City must honour its commitment to build deeply affordable, accessible, and supportive housing stock. 
  2. Expanding housing and tenant support programs like MURA, Eviction Prevention in the City (EPIC) and the Rent Bank to address rising need. 
  3. Focused housing for communities disproportionally impacted by the housing crisis, including disabled Indigenous residents – especially youth and Elders, and disabled 2SLGBTQ+ people 
  4. The City must follow through on its commitment to adequately fund accessibility retrofits to its existing stock. 
  5. Develop a municipal standard for accessible or universal design housing stock that includes targets and incentives for landlords. 
  6. Pressure the federal government to allocate a significant portion of new federal housing funding to building accessible, deeply affordable housing across GTA. 
  7. Support the renewal of the Housing Rights Advocacy Committee in the next term of Toronto Council. 

Disability poverty reduction calls for candidates to commit to if elected to City Council

  1. Make urgent progress on employment equity for disabled residents starting with accessible hiring policies, practices and targets.  
  2. Increase pressure on other levels of government to:
    • Adequately fund disability income/benefit programs such as ODSP and the Canada Disability Benefit.  
    • Demand an end to claw backs on earned income so ODSP recipients have a chance to achieve income security and escape perpetual poverty.  

Transit calls for candidates to commit to if elected to City Council

  1. The TTC must ensure that all stations, wayfinding, and vehicles are fully accessible to meet their AODA obligations. 
  2. Freeze existing TTC fares and sustain Fare Capping program. 
  3. Introduce a graduated fare system.  
  4. Reduce TTC wait times in winter months.  
  5. Protect the right to Wheel-trans Door-to-Door service. 
  6. Pressure other levels of government to invest their fair share of TTC Funding. 

Other crucial calls for candidates to commit to if elected to City Council

Elections 

  1. All aspects of Toronto’s elections must be fully accessible, including polling stations, notices of candidate townhalls or debates, election information communications, and election staff fully trained to respond to a range of access needs. 
  2. Wheel-Trans or accessible shuttle bussing to get people to their polling station. 
  3. Free transit on election day to help people get to polling stations who can’t afford to travel, including on Wheel-Trans. 

Disability Inclusive Engagement in the City 

  1. The City must convene disabled residents to contribute disability leadership to their committees, strategies, services e.g. income support, housing, transit. 
  2. Candidates to commit to educating themselves and their team about concerns disability communities have, and work in partnership with disabled residents from a range of communities. 

Full Summaries

You can read full summaries of the notes from the breakout room sessions in the files below.

GTADC’s City Election Event – Participant’s Calls to Candidates, Sept 2026 (Text Only)Download
GTADC’s City Election Event – Participant’s Calls to Candidates, Sept 2026 (PDF)Download

More Resources

City For All: Social Planning Toronto has collaborated with community partners in crafting their own platform to call on candidates to adopt into their platforms.  

Toronto Municipal Election Voter Guide: Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Kerry’s Place Autism Services have created a wonderful non-partisan, accessible guide that provides practical information to help young voters and their families understand Toronto’s 2026 municipal election and prepare to vote. This guide also gives people with disabilities and their caregivers easy‑to‑understand information about the impact of municipal services, who can vote, different ways to vote, how to get ready, and what to expect. 

The Local’s Candidate Tracker: The only place to find reported, fact-checked biographies and platform summaries for every candidate running in the 2026 Toronto municipal election. 

The Local’s Debate Tracker: The Local Magazine is tracking every mayoral and ward-level debate across Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton. Note: These events are organized by different groups and may not be fully accessible.