Election Results

Results for upcoming Markham municipal and/or school board elections are posted to this page once available.

Past election results

2025 Markham Ward 7 By-Election

Registered voters: 36,646

Ballots cast: 8,183

Voter turnout: 22.3%

Declined ballots: 0

Rejected ballots: 2

Ward 7 Councillor

Candidate	Early voting	Final voting day	Total votes
Nimisha Patel	1,904	1,050	2,954
Killi Chelliah	1,190	908	2,098
Aranee Murugananthan	1,054	1,001	2,055
Jenny Chen	413	286	699
Vicky McGrath	78	63	141
Kristian Chan	66	54	120
Abdul Samad Katawazy	29	36	65
Omar Ullah	23	28	51

Date certified: October 1, 2025

2022 Markham Municipal Election

Registered voters: 217,103

Ballots cast: 69,805

Voter turnout: 32.2%

Mayor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Frank Scarpitti	2,974	41,198	44,172
Don Hamilton	1,800	22,669	24,469

Regional Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Michael Chan	2,325	27,770	30,095
Jim Jones	1,879	24,669	26,578
Joe Li	1,709	24,114	25,823
Alan Ho	1,702	23,033	24,735
Nirmala Armstrong	1,498	21,685	23,183
Allan Tam	1,261	17,287	18,548
Shanta Sundarason	939	14,835	15,774
Sophia Sun	981	12,658	13,639
Greg Marcos	878	11,593	12,471
Ivy Lee	988	11,368	12,356
Srini Suppira	386	5,292	5,678

Ward 1 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Keith Irish	551	5,544	6,095
Howard Shore	157	1,944	2,101

Ward 2 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Ritch Lau	127	2,885	3,012
Yan Wang	87	1,779	1,866
Larry Lau	66	1,507	1,573
Trina Kollis	40	897	937
Steven Sun	38	857	895

Ward 3 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Reid McAlpine	368	4,639	5,007
Sandra Tam	68	955	1,023
Bill Chan	70	920	990
Robin Choy	30	852	882
Sheng Huang	24	477	501
Annie Chan	34	386	420

Ward 4 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Karen Rea	531	8,032	8,563
Vid Sansanwal	37	685	722

Ward 5 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Andrew Keyes	257	4,863	5,120
Sri Sivasubramaniam	51	1,321	1,372
Ashok Bangia	29	504	533

Ward 6 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Amanda Yeung Collucci	200	4,721	4,921
Darren Soo	61	1,270	1,331

Ward 7 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Juanita Nathan	374	5,014	5,388
Nimisha Patel	126	2,522	2,648
Shahzad Habib	109	1,846	1,955
Neetu Gupta	101	1,191	1,292

Ward 8 Councillor

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Isa Lee	929	5,620	6,549
Nihanthan Ratnasingham	51	589	640
Jack Levinson	57	428	485
Deepak Talreja	39	391	430

York Region District School Board Trustee

Wards 1 & 8

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Jenny Chen	576	4,618	5,194
Susan Geller	225	2,135	2,360
Karen Walton	182	1,689	1,871
Srdjana Jaksic	80	1,057	1,137
Nafiseh Pourhassani	50	971	1,021
Sarma Donepudi	62	501	563

Wards 2 & 6

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Ronn Lynn	251	6,396	6,647
Christine Calanchie	191	4,356	4,547

Wards 3 & 4

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Ed Law	263	3,322	3,595
Ben Hendriks	210	3,048	3,258
Jerrica Lin	169	2,982	3,151
Alyssa Shi	70	1,443	1,513
Nadhiena Shankar	51	843	894
Xu Dong Lu	35	653	688

Wards 5 & 7

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Michael Chen	317	4,249	4,566
Rukshan Para	237	4,014	4,251
Ali Chatha	183	3,191	3,374
Ruby Ratnasingham	106	1,567	1,673
Shusmita Sharma	53	986	1,039
Geetha Thambiah	32	702	734

York Catholic District School Board Trustee

Wards 1, 2, 3 & 6

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Carol Cotton	131	2,224	2,355
Frances Tan	91	1,254	1,345
Luca Mele	44	548	592

Wards 4, 5, 7 & 8

Candidate	Paper ballots	Online ballots	Total votes
Frank Alexander	212	2,803	3,015
James Bush	88	1,093	1,181
Euphrashia Rajaindra	61	887	948

Results for York Region's French language school board trustee offices are certified by the City of Vaughan. Visit vaughan.ca/elections for more information.

Date certified: October 26, 2022