Candidate for Councillor in Ward 9 who suspended his campaign on September 1, 2026, with his name still on the ballot.
Brandon Ly is on the City of Ottawa's list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 9 Knoxdale-Merivale, with a nomination dated June 3, 2026. CBC News reports that he said in a Facebook post on September 1, 2026 that he was suspending his campaign, and that his name will still appear on the ballot. CBC News describes him as a parliamentary assistant to a Conservative Member of Parliament. voche.me found no platform or public statement from him.
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Ottawa municipal electionThe City's list of certified candidates shows Brandon Ly's nomination dated June 3, 2026, with the same date for the Contribution Rebate Program. He gave the City no website or social media account. The City's open data file, last changed on August 29, 2026, shows no withdrawal for him. That file is older than his announcement.
CBC News, on its Ward 9 page posted on August 25 and last updated on October 1, 2026, describes him as a parliamentary assistant to a Conservative Member of Parliament, and says he withdrew from the race and that his name will still be on the ballot. CBC News says he announced in a Facebook post on September 1 that he was suspending his campaign for a personal reason. CTV News Ottawa of September 2026 says he suspended his campaign on September 1 and that his name will appear on the ballot. Capital Current of September 25, 2026 says his suspension came too late to remove his name. voche.me did not read the Facebook post.
CBC News published questionnaire answers from the three other candidates in Ward 9 and none from him, and CTV News Ottawa gives no answers from him. The sources voche.me read hold no complaint or allegation about him.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
No platform positions have been supplied.
Evidence reviewed on October 6, 2026: the City's list of certified candidates for Ward 9 and the City's open data file, CBC News of August 25 and September 23, 2026, the CTV News Ottawa page for the ward and Capital Current of September 25, 2026.
Gaps. The City gave no website or social media account for him, and a web search did not return his Facebook post, so his own words were not read. His role as a parliamentary assistant rests on one news description. No platform, biography or questionnaire answers were found. An empty section on this page means that nothing was found for it. The questionnaire has not been sent.
CBC News does not name the Member of Parliament. voche.me found no other source for this role.
CBC News · Knoxdale-Merivale: Here's who's running to be your Ottawa city councillor, August 25, 2026Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
No questions and answers have been supplied.
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Facts voche.me can state about Brandon Ly's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Brandon Ly's own campaign.
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Brandon Ly.
This profile lists 7 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Brandon Ly in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
The 2026 Ottawa municipal election, including the Councillor race, is decided on October 26, 2026.
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