Each seat on Brampton’s council stands for 70,710 residents, more than in 99% of Ontario municipalities

Who to ask

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

Peel Region is the upper tier over Brampton, a lower-tier municipality.

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   Brampton councilelected October 2022
   Patrick Brown
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   Legislative Assembly of OntarioBrampton East
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   House of CommonsBrampton East
   Maninder Sidhu

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

Voters pick a mayor for the whole municipality and the rest of Brampton council ward by ward. The contest for mayor went to Patrick Brown, with 60% of the votes.

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

Brampton council was elected on 24 October 2022 with 25% of electors voting, below the provincial middle.

How Ebenezer East voted: same source as Councillors, above.

28 October 2030 is the next council election in Brampton, fixed by the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 for the fourth Monday in October every four years. Provincially the last general election was on 27 February 2025, for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; federally, on 28 April 2025. Counts from April 2025 can’t appear here, since Elections Canada allows only non-commercial reuse of them.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

The riding is Brampton East: it sends one MPP to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and Ebenezer East 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

Maninder Sidhu sits with the Liberal Party of Canada, which holds 71 of the 122 seats from Ontario.

The MP’s record

On today’s boundaries, the 2021 vote in Brampton East would have gone to the Liberal Party of Canada with 53%, and Maninder Sidhu kept it for them in 2025. First elected in 2019, Maninder Sidhu is serving the 3rd term of a Commons career.

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

In 2019, Maninder Sidhu had won the same riding with 47%. The 2021 count in Brampton East put Maninder Sidhu (Liberal Party of Canada) first at 53%, with Naval Bajaj (Conservative Party of Canada) 10,473 votes back. In 2021, 54% of electors cast a ballot in Brampton East, under the national 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

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

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