Ward 1 Etobicoke North

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Ward 1 Etobicoke North
Constituency
for the Toronto City Council
Ontario 2018 Etobicoke North.svg
Location of Ward 1 in Toronto
City Toronto
Population118,040 (2016)
Current constituency
Created2018
Councillor Vincent Crisanti
Community council Etobicoke/York
Created from
  • Ward 1
  • Ward 2
First contested 2018 election
Last contested 2022 election
Ward profile www.toronto.ca/ward-1-etobicoke-north/

Ward 1 Etobicoke North is a municipal electoral division in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario that has been represented in the Toronto City Council since the 2018 municipal election. It was last contested in 2022, with Vincent Crisanti being elected councillor.

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History

Toronto municipal ward boundaries were significantly modified in 2018, passing through three models (44-ward, 47-ward, and 25-ward). Ultimately, for the purposes of administering the 2018 election, the 25-ward structure was used and later upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2021.

From 2014 to 2017, the City of Toronto engaged in a ward boundary review [1] evaluating the city's previous 44-ward model. [2]

Based on this, and in preparation for the 2018 municipal election, the City of Toronto added 3 new wards to create a 47-ward model. [3] This model was in effect at the opening of the 2018 municipal election.

The 2018 Toronto municipal election ran from May 1, 2018, to October 22, 2018, and while underway [4] the provincial government introduced the Better Local Government Act, 2018, S.O. 2018, c. 11 - Bill 5. The act was assented to on August 14, 2018. [5]

The immediate effect of this act was to eliminate all previous ward models, and replace them with a 25-ward model [6] designed to align with the provincial and federal ridings boundaries in effect at that time. [7]

The timing of the boundary change was controversial, and the City of Toronto sued the province contesting the provisions' constitutionality. In the absence of an injunction, and with the pending threat of the province invoking the notwithstanding clause [8] which would defeat any constitutional challenge, the election continued under the 25-ward model. [9]

The nomination period originally scheduled to close on July 27, 2018, was extended to September 14, 2018. [10] This allowed new candidates to run, and existing candidates to either withdraw or to reassign their candidacy to a different constituency. [11]

In a judgment rendered October 1, 2021, [12] the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the constitutionality of the provisions, [13] and the 25-ward model remained in effect for the 2022 Toronto municipal election.

2022 municipal election

Michael Ford resigned his seat in June 2022, after winning election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. Vincent Crisanti, who finished second behind Ford in 2018, and who had held Ward 1 prior to the amalgamation of Wards 1 and 2 in 2018, was elected.

Geography

Etobicoke North is part of the Etobicoke and York community council. [14] The ward occupies the northwestern part of Toronto. The eastern boundary is the Humber River from Steeles Avenue south to a point just to the east of the Dixon Road. The southern boundary runs west from the Humber River along Dixon Road to Martin Grove Road to Eglinton Avenue to the western limit of the city. The western and northern limits of the ridings are formed by the city limits.

The ward contains the neighbourhoods of Rexdale, The Elms, Humberwood, Kingsview Village, Thistletown, and Willowridge.

Councillors

Council termMember
Rexdale-Thistletown (Metro Council)
1988–1991 Lois Griffin
1991–1994
1994–1997
Ward 5 Rexdale-Thistletown
1997–2000 Elizabeth Brown, Bruce Sinclair
Ward 1 Etobicoke NorthWard 2 Etobicoke North
2000–2003 Suzan Hall Rob Ford
2003–2006
2006–2010
2010–2014 Vincent Crisanti Doug Ford
2014–2018 Rob Ford (until 2016)
Michael Ford (from 2016)
Ward 1 Etobicoke North
2018–2022 Michael Ford [15] (until June 2022)
Rosemarie Bryan* [16] (24 June 2022 only)
Rose Milczyn [16] (from August 2022)
2022–2026 Vincent Crisanti

*Following Michael Ford's election as MPP, council proceeded to appoint an interim council. Rosemarie Bryan was appointed on June 24, 2022 but was not sworn in and resigning shortly after due to past homophobic remarks. [17] She served on council for a total of about 5 hours, 40 minutes. [18]

Election results

2022 Toronto municipal election, Ward 1 Etobicoke North
CandidateVote%
Vincent Crisanti 6,81541.07
Avtar Minhas 3,40920.54
Charles Ozzoude1,0236.16
Subhash Chand9345.63
Bill Britton8054.85
Michelle Garcia6203.74
Kristian Santos6133.69
Dev Narang4362.63
Ricardo Santos4212.54
Abraham Abbey2851.72
Keith Stephen2821.70
Christopher Noor2611.57
John Genser1981.19
Alistair Courtney1851.11
Mohit Sharma1851.11
Donald Pell1230.74
2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward 1 Etobicoke North
CandidateVotesVote share
Michael Ford10,64842.26%
Vincent Crisanti 8,65434.34%
Naiima Farah2,2628.98%
Shirish Patel1,9457.72%
Carol Royer6422.55%
Michelle Garcia4391.74%
Peter D'Gama2531.00%
Christopher Noor2140.85%
Gurinder Patri1420.56%
Total25,199100%
Source: City of Toronto [19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "City of Toronto Ward Boundary Review".
  2. ↑ Toronto, City of (2017-11-14). "44-Ward Model (2014-2018)". City of Toronto. Archived from the original on 2025-09-27. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
  3. ↑ Toronto, City of (2018-07-06). "47-Ward Model (Ward Boundary Review, 2016)". City of Toronto. Archived from the original on 2025-09-08. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
  4. ↑ "How would Ontario's plan to change Toronto politics work? An explainer".
  5. ↑ "Better Local Government Act, 2018, S.O. 2018, c. 11 - Bill 5".
  6. ↑ Toronto, City of (2018-09-28). "Ward Profiles". City of Toronto. Archived from the original on 2025-08-09. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
  7. ↑ Bronskill, Jim (2021-03-10). "City of Toronto tells Supreme Court that Doug Ford's government disrupted democracy by slashing council during election". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2021-11-19. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  8. ↑ "Premier Doug Ford to use notwithstanding clause to cut size of Toronto city council".
  9. ↑ "With Toronto city council slashed to 25 wards, attention turns to governing - Toronto | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  10. ↑ "Abrupt closure of city council nominations adding more confusion for candidates".
  11. ↑ Toronto, Web Staff-CTV News (2018-10-19). "Ward by ward: A look at candidates running in a new 25-ward system". CTVNews. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  12. ↑ "Toronto (City) v. Ontario (Attorney General) - SCC Cases". decisions.scc-csc.ca. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  13. ↑ LLP, Affleck Greene McMurtry; Binetti, Michael (2021-10-01). "Ontario's mid-election changes to Toronto wards not unconstitutional: Supreme Court | The Litigator - AGM LLP" . Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  14. ↑ "Community Council". City of Toronto 311 Knowledge Base. Archived from the original on 2021-11-19. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  15. ↑ "A look at Toronto's city councillors under the new 25-ward system". CTV News Toronto. October 22, 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-11-19. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  16. 1 2 "Toronto city council appoints Rose Milczyn as interim councillor for Ward 1-Etobicoke North". CBC . 15 Aug 2022.
  17. ↑ "Rosemarie Bryan resigns from Toronto city council after controversial social media posts surface". Toronto.citynews.ca. 2022-06-24. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  18. ↑ @GraphicMatt (June 24, 2022). "At about 5 hours and 40 minutes, I'd assume this would set the record as the shortest tenure on Toronto City Council in the city's history" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  19. ↑ "Declaration of Results" (PDF). Toronto City Clerk's Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
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