Council seats in Windsor are spread thin, 24,510 residents each, more than in 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

Voters pick a mayor for the whole municipality and the rest of Windsor council ward by ward. The contest for mayor went to Drew Dilkens, with 53% of the votes.

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

When Windsor council was chosen on 24 October 2022, just 32% of electors took part, under the provincial median.

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

Elections Canada’s open records end with the 2021 election; its 2025 results are under terms that rule out commercial use. Provincially the last general election was on 27 February 2025, for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; federally, on 28 April 2025. 28 October 2030 is the next council election in Windsor, fixed by the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 for the fourth Monday in October every four years.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

The riding is Windsor—Tecumseh: it sends one MPP to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and East Windsor 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; Kathy Borrelli 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 Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 31%: Kathy Borrelli won it away from them in 2025. The 2025 general election sent Kathy Borrelli to the Commons for the first time.

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

That was among the tightest results in the country: 10 of 338 ridings were closer. Turnout in Windsor—Tecumseh was 61% in 2021, against 63% nationally. In 2021, Windsor—Tecumseh went to Irek Kusmierczyk (Liberal Party of Canada) on 32%; Cheryl Hardcastle (New Democratic Party) finished 669 votes behind. In 2019, Irek Kusmierczyk had won the same riding with 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. At 35%, property taxes count for less of the revenue than the 37% seen across the province. No service costs more than social services and child care, at $1,410 per resident and 33% of the total. At $4,329 for every resident in 2024, Windsor council sits above the $3,796 median of Ontario’s single-tier municipalities. The return counts 3,103 full-time positions, 13.1 for every thousand residents.

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