Dillon Anderson

The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Dillon Anderson’s nomination for Councillor in Ward 14 Somerset dated June 12, 2026, and shows him not registered in the Contribution Rebate Program. The City’s list of elected officials for 2022 to 2026 does not include him, and the sources voche.me read show no public office held by him. The City’s list shows no withdrawal and no nomination for another office. CBC News describes him as an accounting student and reports that it emailed him a questionnaire at the address he gave the City and had no response by its deadline.

In his answers to CTV News Ottawa he gives his age as 23 and says he has lived in Ottawa for six months. He says he was an accounting intern at Baker Tilly, holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and, in the words of his campaign website, graduated from Nipissing University’s Bachelor of Business Administration program and is pursuing the Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation. voche.me did not check these with the university or the accounting body. He says he uses a wheelchair every day to move around Somerset Ward and presents accessibility as the first of his priorities.

He lists two earlier candidacies in his answers to CTV News Ottawa: a council race in Callander, Ontario in 2022 and the 2025 federal by-election in Battle River--Crowfoot, Alberta. BayToday reported on June 29, 2022 that a 19-year-old business student named Dillon Anderson from Callander was running for the Callander council, and on July 15, 2025 that a Dillon Anderson of Callander was running in the by-election as part of the Longest Ballot Committee, a protest against rules that let any resident of Canada run in any riding. In that article he says the run protests those rules and that he did not expect to win. Elections Canada’s official results of August 18, 2025 list a Dillon Anderson, Independent, with 10 votes in that by-election. voche.me found no source that links the Callander candidate to this Ottawa candidate other than his own statement to CTV News Ottawa, and the 2022 Callander result was not looked up.

He told The BUZZ that he is not a member of any political party and has never held a position in one. His campaign website lists accessibility first (sidewalks, snow clearing and accessible City projects), reliable transit including Para Transpo, fiscal responsibility, housing and homelessness, local business and downtown revitalization, and responsible investment in Lansdowne Park. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he says he would work to decrease transit fares, would judge the police budget case by case, and supports an infrastructure levy only after the City first deals with calls to 311. He told The BUZZ that increased policing alone does not solve safety concerns and needs social supports alongside it, that he supports densification that is human-scale and accessible, that he will not accept campaign donations from the development sector, and that he opposes municipal tax dollars, tax holidays or development charge waivers for the new NHL arena. These are his own statements. The sources voche.me read hold no complaint about him.