The whole field
Where the candidates stand
The same 33 questions, put to everyone running for mayor and for council. Read across the whole field, the answers show what no single ballot can: what Toronto’s next council already agrees on, and what it will spend four years fighting over.
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Candidates answered
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Policy questions
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Wards represented
Five decisions facing the next council
When a person living in a park has been offered an available indoor space that meets their accessibility, safety and household needs, should the city require them to leave the encampment?
Should Toronto introduce road-pricing measures, such as congestion charges or tolls, if the revenue is dedicated to transportation improvements?
Should Toronto raise additional local revenue to address its infrastructure repair backlog rather than defer maintenance while seeking funding from other governments?
Should Toronto publish project-level budgets, schedules and performance updates for all major capital projects?
Public safety and public space
Which approach should receive the greatest additional investment to improve public safety?
Over the next council term, the Toronto Police Service budget should:
How should Toronto govern automated licence-plate readers and similar surveillance technology used on public streets?
Transit and transportation
What should receive the greatest share of the next available transit funding?
When there is not enough street space for every use, which should generally receive priority?
Housing and growth
If Toronto could make one major housing intervention this term, which should receive the greatest emphasis?
What should be Toronto's primary role in delivering affordable and supportive housing?
Where should Toronto permit the greatest increase in housing density?
City government and service delivery
Which change would you implement to reduce the cost of building housing in Toronto?
What is the most important change Toronto should make to reduce capital-project delays and cost overruns?
Which service-delivery model should Toronto use more often?
Taxes, spending and fiscal sustainability
Over the next council term, residential property-tax revenues should generally:
Which type of additional revenue should Toronto rely on most heavily?
What should Toronto do first to address its infrastructure repair backlog?
Governance and representation
What should be Toronto's primary approach to the provincial government?
Strong mayor powers should be used mainly for:
Your ward and your record
Which objective should receive the greatest attention in your ward during the next council term?
Which single result should voters use to assess your performance at the end of the term?
Priorities and trade-offs
When demonstrations substantially block transportation or access to essential institutions, the city should prioritize:
Where should Toronto direct its next major technology investment?
When Toronto faces a structural operating-budget gap, what should it do first?
What is the most important municipal intervention for improving Toronto's business climate?
How should Toronto attract major employers, investment and events?
What should Toronto prioritize to increase construction capacity?
What should receive the greatest priority in Toronto's public-realm budget?
What should be Toronto's primary tool for supporting arts, culture and nightlife?
If autonomous taxi services operate in Toronto, which condition should the city prioritize?
Over the next council term, Toronto should:
Each segment is the share of the candidates who answered that particular question who gave that answer. Options nobody picked are not shown. Select an answer to see which candidates gave it; what they wrote about it is on the mayoral and ward pages.
Now answer them yourself
These are the same questions we asked the candidates. Answer them and see which of the 59 line up with you — and where you sit against the field you just read.
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Voter survey
Where do you stand?
Answer the same questions we put to the candidates and see who lines up with you.
Each card is one question, drawn as the share of the field that gave each answer. The options are listed in full under the band, in the wording the candidates were shown, with the number who chose each. Options nobody picked are not shown, and a candidate who answered in their own words is counted in the unshaded segment rather than on any option. Shares are of the candidates who answered that particular question, not of the whole field — a questionnaire can come back half filled in, so the number behind a card is the counts in its own legend added up. Hover or select any answer to see the candidates who gave it, with the seat each is running for.
The note most candidates wrote to explain their answer lives on the ward and mayoral pages — thirty notes under every question is more reading than this page can carry, and it is on those pages that a reader has a ballot to weigh them against. Answers appear as candidates return the questionnaire and staff review them, so the field shown here grows through the campaign.