Council seats in Brampton are spread thin, 70,710 residents each, more than in 99% of Ontario municipalities

Who to ask

Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.

Above Brampton’s council sits Peel Region, the upper tier, which runs services across all its municipalities.

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   Brampton councilelected October 2022
   Patrick Brown
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   Legislative Assembly of OntarioBrampton West
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   House of CommonsBrampton West
   Amarjeet Gill

Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada

11 members and how they were elected

Seats on Brampton council are tied to wards, apart from the mayor, whom every voter helps choose. Patrick Brown became mayor on 60% of the votes cast.

Councils: Ontario 2022 Municipal Election data, MMAH (OGL-Ontario)

25% of those on the list cast a ballot for Brampton council on 24 October 2022, fewer than in a typical municipality.

How Creditview voted: same source as Councillors, above.

The open federal catalogue ends at 2021; the 2025 results sit on elections.ca under terms that bar commercial use. Voters last chose the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on 27 February 2025 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. Councils are elected on the fourth Monday in October every four years, says the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, so Brampton votes next on 28 October 2030.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

The riding is Brampton West: it sends one MPP to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and Creditview votes in it. The riding comes from the 2013 federal map, which southern Ontario’s provincial ridings match under the Representation Act, 2015.

Southern Ontario ridings: the 2013 federal boundaries (Representation Act, 2015), Statistics Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada leads Ontario with 71 of 122 seats; Amarjeet Gill is among the 50 from the Conservative Party of Canada.

The MP’s record

Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Brampton West puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 56%: Amarjeet Gill won it away from them in 2025. Amarjeet Gill is new to Parliament, first elected in the April 2025 vote.

MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026

Kamal Khera (Liberal Party of Canada) took Brampton West in 2021 with 55% of the vote, 12,594 votes ahead of Jermaine Chambers (Conservative Party of Canada). In 2019, Kamal Khera had won the same riding with 54%. Brampton West turned out at only 54% in 2021; the country managed 63%.

Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada

More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $647 a resident, 43% of all spending. The return counts 4,365 full-time positions, 6.2 for every thousand residents. The upper tier, Peel Region, adds $2,085 per resident of its own, mostly for social services and child care. Spending by Brampton council came to $1,509 a resident in 2024, under the $1,901 median of Ontario’s lower-tier municipalities. Long-term debt at Brampton council stood at $111.6M, or $158 a resident, below the $440 median. Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 49% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 42%.

Money: Financial Information Return 2024, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

The headline above gives the figure; the bars set Brampton council beside nearby councils, with the provincial median as the tick.

Residents: 2021 Census; seats: the province’s council list