Candidate for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York, third of 7 in 2022 with 1,902 votes.
Adam Smith is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York, with a nomination filed on May 1, 2026. The City Clerk’s results show an Adam Smith with 1,902 votes, third of 7, in Ward 19 in 2022 and with 708 votes, 7th of 16, in 2018, and his campaign website and The Local tie those runs to him.
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Adam Smith appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 1, 2026 and the campaign website adamsmithward19.ca.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the October 24, 2022 general election lists Adam Smith third among 7 candidates for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York, with 1,902 votes. The 7 declared totals add up to 27,728 votes, so his share was 6.86 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. Brad Bradford was elected with 15,169. The Clerk’s declaration for the October 22, 2018 general election lists an Adam Smith in the same ward with 708 votes, 7th of 16 candidates, a share of 1.91 percent of the 37,048 declared. His campaign website says his 2018 platform had three planks and that his 2026 platform updates his 2022 platform, and The Local says he ran in Beaches-East York in 2022 and came third of seven. Those statements tie the two entries to him.
His campaign website, the campaign’s own statement, says he works in film and television, has volunteered in the ward for 16 years, and describes himself as non-partisan and never a member of a political party. It lists administering the Beach Community Edible Garden since 2016, delivering Meals on Wheels since 2015, serving on the Beach BIA board from 2010 to 2016, chairing the Ward 19 Transportation Committee for 11 years, and serving as treasurer of Rain Gardens United from 2018 to 2020. The Local says he works in visual effects and animation and fought a development with the Greater Beach Neighbourhood Association. voche.me did not check these roles with the groups named.
His platform page names three planks: a community voice, safe and efficient transportation and responsible development. His site lists a ward transportation report with proposals on rush-hour parking rules on Coxwell Avenue and Kingston Road and on completing the Woodbine bike lanes, and opposes expansion of the island airport. In his Beach Metro answers of September 22, 2026 he says he has deputed at City Hall many times on development and wants the best for his family, residents and neighbourhoods.
TTCriders’ Ward 19 page records a Yes from him on 16 of its 18 transit questions and a No on questions 13 and 17. He explains in his comments that he answered No on question 13 because he has a history of working on effective wayfinding with the City and finds its solutions lacking, and on question 17 because the solution has to be the right one. Build Canada lists him among the 5 candidates who answered its questionnaire. Beach Metro’s July 3, 2026 report says he held a campaign launch party on July 4 at Poured Coffee on Danforth Avenue. No elected office is on record in his profile.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His Platform page says his three planks are a community voice, safe and efficient transportation, and responsible development, and his home page promises to be personally available to residents and to share regular polling results.
Adam Smith for Ward 19 · PlatformHis Housing page says development must be responsible and compatible with climate goals, that affordability needs reforms that address what he calls the real sources of the problem, and that the City should do more to prevent homelessness.
Adam Smith for Ward 19 · HousingHis transportation page proposes unifying rush-hour parking restrictions on Coxwell Avenue and Kingston Road, completing the Woodbine bike lanes at Lakeshore, marking all crosswalks, adding a bike route over the O’Connor bridge and a rush-hour bus between Queen Street and Victoria Park Station.
Adam Smith for Ward 19 · Ward 19 Transportation NetworkEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates and Members of Council page, the City Clerk’s declarations of results for the 2022 and 2018 general elections, six pages of his campaign website (home, About, Platform, Housing, Safety and Ward 19 Transportation Network), Beach Metro’s Q&A with him and its July 3, 2026 report, The Local’s Ward 19 tracker, Build Canada’s Ward 19 page, TTCriders’ Ward 19 page, The Green Line’s Ward 19 profile and its list of ward debates, and two further Beach Metro pieces on the race. No elected office is on record in his profile. Every statement taken from his campaign website or from his own answers is written as his own account.
Ward context. The City’s Members of Council page lists Brad Bradford as the Ward 19 Beaches-East York councillor. The City’s list of certified candidates shows him as a candidate for Mayor, and The Local, The Green Line and Beach Metro each report that he is running for mayor and not for the ward seat, so none of the 13 Ward 19 candidates is a sitting councillor. The 13 on the City’s list are Syeda Jaana Ali, James Dann, Nate Erskine-Smith, Fatima Ibrahimi, Natalie Johnson, Kevin Morrison, Karsten Riedel, Mohammad Shabani, Adam Smith, Austin Vieira, Jeff Wahl, Devin Wilkins and Jennie Worden. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results for Ward 19 Beaches-East York lists 7 candidates: Brad Bradford (15,169 votes, elected), Jennie Worden (6,291), Adam Smith (1,902), Steven Thompson (1,735), Frank Marra (1,460), Donna Braniff (702) and Sébastien Auger (469). Of the 13 candidates, the Clerk’s 2022 Ward 19 table names two, Worden and Smith, and The Local says each of them ran there in 2022, in second and third place. No other 2026 Ward 19 candidate appears in that table. Build Canada’s Ward 19 page lists James Dann, Mohammad Shabani, Adam Smith, Austin Vieira and Jennie Worden as the 5 candidates who answered its questionnaire. TTCriders’ page shows answers to its 18 questions from 7 candidates (Ali, Dann, Erskine-Smith, Shabani, Smith, Wahl and Worden) and no response from the other 6. Beach Metro printed written answers from 11 of the 13 candidates on September 22, 2026. A candidate forum for Ward 19 was listed for September 28, 2026 at 5 Massey Square, organised by The Neighbourhood Organization, Don Valley Community Legal Services and the Taylor-Massey Oakridge Community Response Team, and Beach Metro lists a meet-and-greet at Beach United Church on October 5, 2026 that 12 candidates (all but Fatima Ibrahimi) confirmed they will attend. A listing records an invitation, and voche.me found no report of who took part in the forum.
Gaps. His volunteer roles, board seats and report on ward transportation come from his campaign website and were not checked with the groups named. His Instagram profile opened and returned thumbnails dated September 27 to October 3, 2026 with no post text, so nothing from it is used, and his X, Facebook and YouTube links were not opened. His Beach Metro bylines on development stories are listed on his site and were not opened. Build Canada’s questionnaire answers from him were read only in part. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The City Clerk’s declarations list an Adam Smith with 1,902 votes in 2022 and 708 votes in 2018 in the ward. His campaign website and The Local tie the runs to him.
City Clerk · Declaration of Results, 2022 Toronto municipal electionHis campaign website says he served on the Beach BIA board for 6 years and chaired its streetscaping committee. voche.me did not check this with the BIA.
Adam Smith for Ward 19 · AboutProposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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