{"id":141902,"date":"2023-02-27T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=141902"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:22:29","slug":"torontos-mayoral-byelection-set-for-june-26-city-clerk-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/torontos-mayoral-byelection-set-for-june-26-city-clerk-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s mayoral byelection set for June 26: city clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toronto\u2019s city clerk confirms that the next mayoral byelection will be on June 26.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The news comes after deputy mayor Jennifer McKelvie told a local news station that an election would not happen before June.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For now, McKelvie will assume mayoral duties until a successor is elected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During former Toronto mayor John Tory\u2019s final address on Feb. 17 to the public, McKelvie said she does not intend to run for mayor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"Residents can rest assured that my entire at this time is a smooth transition and continued good governance,\" she said. \"As I said yesterday, I will not be seeking to run for mayor in the upcoming byelection.\"<\/p>\n<p>Nominations for mayoral candidates open on April 3 at 8:30AM and close on May 12 at 2PM.<\/p>\n<p>Advance polling will take place from June 8 to 13.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to polls across the city, residents will have the open to cast their vote by mail.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The estimated budget for the byelection is approximately $13 million. This is down by $1.5 million, when $14.5 million was spent on the Toronto municipal election in October 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The byelection was scheduled after John Tory\u2019s surprising resignation on Feb. 10 after admitting to an affair with a former staffer that began during the height of COVID-19. Tory said it was consensual and ended in early 2023. News of the affair was first reported by the Toronto Star, and Tory confirmed it during a press conference later in the evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More details on the byelection can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/news\/toronto-city-clerk-sets-mayoral-by-election-for-monday-june-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to CJRU's coverage of the next mayoral byelection:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s city clerk confirms that the next mayoral byelection will be on June 26.\u00a0 The news comes after deputy mayor Jennifer McKelvie told a local news station that an election would not happen before June.\u00a0For now, McKelvie will assume mayoral duties until a successor is elected.\u00a0 During former Toronto mayor John Tory\u2019s final address on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":142148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[23704,8922,23705,23672],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142403,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141902\/revisions\/142403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141902"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=141902"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=141902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}