Jon Burnside

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Jon Burnside
Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission
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November 24, 2022 August 11, 2023

Jon Burnside is a Canadian politician and former police officer who was elected to represent Ward 16 Don Valley East on Toronto City Council following the 2022 municipal election. Burnside was the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) from 2022-2023. He previously represented Ward 26 Don Valley West from 2014 to 2018. [1] [2]

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Background

Prior to his election to council, Burnside worked as a police officer and later launched his own meal delivery company. [3]

Political career

Burnside first ran for city council in Ward 26 in the 2010 election, losing narrowly to incumbent councillor John Parker. [3] He defeated Parker in the 2014 election. [3]

He ran unsuccessfully for re-election as councillor in the 2018 election in the newly constituted Ward 15 Don Valley West against fellow incumbent councillor Jaye Robinson. [4] [5] The new ward has the same boundaries as the provincial and federal riding with the same name.

In the 2022 Toronto municipal election, Burnside ran for election as councillor in the neighbouring Ward 16 Don Valley East. Based on preliminary results, CP24 and the Toronto Star , among others, projected that Burnside would win the ward shortly after polls closed on October 24. [1] [2] Burnside was appointed by Mayor John Tory as the chair of the TTC on November 24, 2022. [6]

Electoral history

2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward 15 Don Valley West
CandidateVotesVote share
Jaye Robinson 16,21949.22%
Jon Burnside14,44043.82%
Tanweer Khan1,3093.97%
Nikola Streker5831.77%
Minh Le4041.23%
Total32,955
100%
Source: City of Toronto [7]
2014 Toronto election, Ward 26 [8]
CandidateVotes %
Jon Burnside9,41542.73%
John Parker 6,16727.99%
Ishrath Velshi3,05513.86%
David Sparrow1,7868.11%
Wasim Vania1,0334.69%
Dimitre Popov5782.62%
Total22,034100.00%
2010 Toronto election, Ward 26 [9]
CandidateVotes %
John Parker 6,20331.3
Jon Burnside5,78829.2
Mohamed Dhanani5,62728.4
Yunus Pandor1,4527.3
Tanvir Ahmed3771.9
Shaukat Malik2161.1
Nawab Salim Khan1690.9
Total19,832100

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