One councillor per 24,510 residents: Windsor is more thinly represented than 97% of Ontario municipalities

Who to ask

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

Windsor is a single-tier city: no county or region sits above its council, though Statistics Canada still counts it in the Essex census division.

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   Windsor councilelected October 2022
   Drew Dilkens
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   Legislative Assembly of OntarioWindsor—Tecumseh
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   House of CommonsWindsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore
   Kathy Borrelli

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

Each ward chooses its own councillors on Windsor council, while the whole municipality votes for the mayor. The contest for mayor went to Drew Dilkens, with 53% of the votes.

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

Turnout for Windsor council on 24 October 2022 was 32% of electors, lower than the Ontario norm.

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

Under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, Windsor’s next municipal vote is on 28 October 2030, 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. The open federal catalogue ends at 2021; the 2025 results sit on elections.ca under terms that bar commercial use.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

East Riverside is in Windsor—Tecumseh, one of the ridings that each elect a MPP to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 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

Kathy Borrelli is one of 50 Conservative Party of Canada MPs from Ontario, where the Liberal Party of Canada has the most seats: 71 of 122.

The MP’s record

April 2025 was Kathy Borrelli’s first election to the House of Commons. Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 31%: Kathy Borrelli won it away from them in 2025.

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

Across Canada’s 338 ridings, only 10 were won by a smaller share. Turnout in Windsor—Tecumseh was 61% in 2021, against 63% nationally. The 2021 count in Windsor—Tecumseh put Irek Kusmierczyk (Liberal Party of Canada) first at 32%, with Cheryl Hardcastle (New Democratic Party) 669 votes back. Back in 2019, Irek Kusmierczyk took the riding on 33%.

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

Windsor council’s borrowing is light: $116.2M long term, $491 a resident where the median is $971. Local taxpayers carry a smaller share than elsewhere: 35% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 37%. At 33% of spending ($1,410 a resident), social services and child care leads the budget. The return counts 3,103 full-time positions, 13.1 for every thousand residents. Each resident’s share of Windsor council’s 2024 spending came to $4,329, where the middle of Ontario’s single-tier municipalities sat at $3,796.

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

Beside its neighbours, Windsor council is the bar in colour; the headline above has the comparison with the province.

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