Photo: Xynorath · CC BY-SA 3.0Brampton has one council seat for every 70,710 residents, more than 99% of municipalities in Ontario
The 5 ridings of Brampton West, Brampton South, Brampton East, Brampton North and Brampton Centre each take in part of Brampton for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Who sits as MPP for Brampton isn’t on an open record; the Legislative Assembly of Ontario has the current list. Maninder Sidhu (Liberal Party of Canada) is the MP for Brampton East, the riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP) that takes in Brampton. Patrick Brown was elected mayor of Brampton in October 2022, on a council of 11 seats. These names are from the 2022–26 term: Ontario’s municipalities voted on 26 October 2026, but the province’s open list of the results isn’t out.
What stands out in how Brampton is governed
Many residents per seat
Brampton council has more people behind each seat than most of Ontario, where the middle figure is 1,540 residents a seat. Council size ↓
Turnout below the norm
In Ontario’s 2022 municipal elections, the middle municipality saw 35% of electors vote; Brampton council fell short of that. How Brampton voted ↓
Split between ridings
Federal boundaries divide Brampton, with 18% of residents in Brampton East and 82% outside it, mainly in Brampton—Chinguacousy Park. Member of Parliament ↓
Low spending per resident
Most of Ontario’s lower-tier municipalities spent more per resident in 2024 than Brampton council: 74% of them. Council money ↓
Compared with the province’s municipalities of 1,000+ residents (2021 Census; MAMH, MMAH and Statistics Canada).
Three governments, and who does what
Brampton, a city in Ontario, shares the work with the province and Ottawa.
Local services, by-laws and property tax.
Spends most on social services and child care, then water, sewers and waste (2024 return).
Schools, health care, highways, municipal law.
ola.org ↗Passports, pensions, EI, defence, immigration.
ourcommons.ca ↗Who to ask
Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.
Peel Region is the upper tier over Brampton, a lower-tier municipality.
From the council table to Ottawa
Every elected tier that speaks for Brampton, from the most recent elections.
- 1Brampton councilelected October 2022Patrick Brown
- 2Legislative Assembly of OntarioBrampton West · Brampton South · Brampton East
- 3House of CommonsBrampton East · 18%
- 4House of CommonsBrampton—Chinguacousy Park · 18%
- 5House of CommonsBrampton West · 17%
- 6House of CommonsBrampton South · 17%
- 7House of CommonsBrampton Centre · 17%
- 8House of CommonsBrampton North—Caledon · 13%
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
Who was elected to Brampton council in 2022
Everyone elected in 2022, with their votes; Ontario’s file gives each seat’s votes but not the ward’s name.
- Patrick Brown
- Harkirat Singh
- Rod Power
- Rowena Santos
- Navjit Kaur Brar
- Dennis Keenan
- Paul Vicente
- Michael Paul Palleschi
- Martin Medeiros
- Pat Fortini
- Gurpartap Singh Toor
11 members and how they were elected
| Name | Seat | Votes | Share of the seat’s votes | On the last council |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Brown | Mayor | 50,652 | 60% | Yes |
| Harkirat Singh | Councillor | 9,076 | 45% | Yes |
| Rod Power | Councillor | 4,069 | 26% | No |
| Rowena Santos | Local and Regional Councillor | 5,143 | 36% | Yes |
| Navjit Kaur Brar | Local and Regional Councillor | 4,983 | 29% | No |
| Dennis Keenan | Local and Regional Councillor | 4,912 | 34% | No |
| Paul Vicente | Local and Regional Councillor | 7,832 | 56% | Yes |
| Michael Paul Palleschi | Local and Regional Councillor | 9,675 | 57% | Yes |
| Martin Medeiros | Local and Regional Councillor | 7,693 | 54% | Yes |
| Pat Fortini | Local and Regional Councillor | 6,919 | 45% | Yes |
| Gurpartap Singh Toor | Local and Regional Councillor | 6,086 | 29% | No |
With 60% of the votes, Patrick Brown carried the vote for mayor. Seats on Brampton council are tied to wards, apart from the mayor, whom every voter helps choose.
Councils: Ontario 2022 Municipal Election data, MMAH (OGL-Ontario)
Brampton voted less than most of Ontario in 2022
Turnout in the October 2022 municipal elections, beside nearby municipalities; the tick is Ontario’s median.
When Brampton council was chosen on 24 October 2022, just 25% of electors took part, under the provincial median.
How Brampton voted: same source as Councillors, above.
When Brampton votes
The last and next general elections at each level; a by-election can come in between.
| Election | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|
| Brampton council | 26 October 2026 | 28 October 2030 |
| Legislative Assembly of Ontario | 27 February 2025 | – |
| House of Commons | 28 April 2025 | – |
Brampton votes next on 28 October 2030: the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 sets municipal elections on the fourth Monday in October every four years. Parliament was last elected on 28 April 2025, and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on 27 February 2025. No open copy of the 2025 counts exists, and Elections Canada’s own terms rule out commercial reuse, so 2021 is the last vote shown.
Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH
Brampton spans 5 ridings for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Provinces and territories run schools, health care and municipal law; each riding elects one MPP.
MPP: see the legislature’s list
ola.org ↗MPP: see the legislature’s list
ola.org ↗MPP: see the legislature’s list
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ola.org ↗MPP: see the legislature’s list
ola.org ↗By law (the Representation Act, 2015), southern Ontario’s provincial ridings follow the 2013 federal boundaries, so each place is located from those. Every one of them sends a separate MPP to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and each covers part of Brampton.
Southern Ontario ridings: the 2013 federal boundaries (Representation Act, 2015), Statistics Canada
Brampton has 6 MPs
Each riding elects one MP to the House of Commons; the general election of 28 April 2025 chose the 45th Parliament.
Brampton East · Liberal Party of Canada · first elected 2019 · 18%
en.wikipedia.org ↗Brampton—Chinguacousy Park · Liberal Party of Canada · 18%
en.wikipedia.org ↗Brampton West · Conservative Party of Canada · 17%
en.wikipedia.org ↗Brampton South · Liberal Party of Canada · 17%
en.wikipedia.org ↗Brampton Centre · Liberal Party of Canada · 17%
en.wikipedia.org ↗Brampton North—Caledon · Liberal Party of Canada · 13%
en.wikipedia.org ↗- Liberal Party of Canada71
- Conservative Party of Canada50
As Wikidata records them.
Of the 122 MPs from Ontario, 71 are with the Liberal Party of Canada, Maninder Sidhu among them.
The MP’s record
Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Brampton East puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 53%; Maninder Sidhu held it for the party in 2025. Maninder Sidhu was first elected in 2019; the current Parliament is Maninder Sidhu’s 3rd.
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
Brampton West returned Kamal Khera (Liberal Party of Canada) in 2021
Under the 2013 boundaries of the 2019 and 2021 elections, Brampton sat in Brampton West; the 2025 election put it in Brampton East. 25% of Brampton lived in it.
At 54%, fewer of Brampton West voted in 2021 than Canada as a whole (63%). 12,594 votes separated Kamal Khera (Liberal Party of Canada) from Jermaine Chambers (Conservative Party of Canada) in Brampton West in 2021, when the winner took 55%. In 2019, Kamal Khera had won the same riding with 54%.
All 5 candidates in Brampton West, 2021
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamal Khera | Liberal Party of Canada | 25,780 | 55.3% |
| Jermaine Chambers | Conservative Party of Canada | 13,186 | 28.3% |
| Gurprit Gill | New Democratic Party | 6,097 | 13.1% |
| Rahul Samuel Zia | People's Party of Canada | 1,218 | 2.6% |
| Sivakumar Ramasamy | Independent | 328 | 0.7% |
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
Brampton council spends less per resident than most
The 2024 financial return: spending by service and revenue by source, per resident, compared only with Ontario’s lower-tier municipalities.
Spending per resident by service, 2024
What pays for it
Shares of revenue, town and province.
Brampton council carried $111.6M of long-term debt, $158 per resident against a typical $440. Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 49% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 42%. It employs the equivalent of 4,365 full-time positions, or 6.2 for each thousand people. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $647 a resident, 43% of all spending. In 2024 the median among Ontario’s lower-tier municipalities was $1,901 a resident; Brampton council spent $1,509. Peel Region, the upper tier, spent another $2,085 per resident of its whole area, most of it on social services and child care.
Every service line, 2024
| Service | 2024 | Per resident | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roads and transit | $458M | $647 | 43% |
| Recreation and culture | $263M | $371 | 25% |
| Police, fire and protection | $168.5M | $238 | 16% |
| General government | $102.1M | $144 | 10% |
| Planning and development | $38.9M | $55 | 4% |
| Water, sewers and waste | $31.9M | $45 | 3% |
| Social services and child care | $5.6M | $8 | 1% |
| Public health and paramedics | $879K | $1 | 0% |
Money: Financial Information Return 2024, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Brampton council beside its neighbours
Residents (2021 Census) per council seat, head of council included, beside nearby municipalities; the tick is the provincial median.
Nearby councils are drawn here for scale; the headline already says where Brampton council stands.
Residents: 2021 Census; seats: the province’s council list
Having a say in how Brampton is run
Check or update the federal list.
elections.ca ↗Every MP lists an office.
ourcommons.ca ↗Ridings, registration and voting dates.
elections.on.ca ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who holds each seat. MPs come from Wikidata’s records of the 45th Parliament, which can lag a resignation or a by-election by some days.
- Not on this page. Band councils, and which party runs the council: the open lists carry no party, and most councils have none.
- Election results. Elections Canada redrew the ridings in 2023 and re-tallied the 2021 ballots onto the new map from polling divisions; that estimate, and the official 2019 and 2021 counts on the old map, are what you see.
- Which riding. A place belongs to the riding where most of its 2021 Census residents live, plus any other with 5% or more.
- Council size. Seats count the head of council and the councillors, and residents are the 2021 Census count; a neighbourhood shows its city’s.
- Council money. Per resident means the 2024 Financial Information Return’s totals over the population it reports. Since a county or region spends in its lower tiers too, those are compared only with each other.
Questions about how Brampton is run
Who is the MP for Brampton?
Mostly Maninder Sidhu (Liberal Party of Canada), MP for Brampton East; part of Brampton is in Brampton—Chinguacousy Park, held by Shafqat Ali.
Which party won Brampton in the 2021 federal election?
Kamal Khera won Brampton West for the Liberal Party of Canada in 2021; the riding is now Brampton East, held by Maninder Sidhu.
Who is the MPP for Brampton?
Parts of Brampton are in Brampton West, Brampton South, Brampton East, Brampton North and Brampton Centre; the Legislative Assembly of Ontario’s site gives the MPP for each.
Who heads the council in Brampton?
For the 2022–26 term, Brampton council was led by Patrick Brown, elected mayor in October 2022.
How much does Brampton council spend?
Brampton council spent $1.1 billion in 2024 for about 708,210 residents; its largest service line was roads and transit, at $458M.
Which regional body is Brampton part of?
The council of Peel Region sits above Brampton’s and runs region-wide services, police and water among them.
How is Brampton council elected?
Brampton council: the mayor is chosen by the whole municipality, the councillors ward by ward.
What was the turnout in Brampton?
Turnout for Brampton council reached 24.6% in October 2022 (Ontario median: 35.5%).
Sources: MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · Southern Ontario ridings: the 2013 federal boundaries (Representation Act, 2015), Statistics Canada · Councils: Ontario 2022 Municipal Election data, MMAH (OGL-Ontario) · Money: Financial Information Return 2024, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. · Next municipal election: the province’s municipal election act · Municipality types: Statistics Canada census subdivisions · 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 · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).