Sitting Councillor for Ward 10 Spadina-Fort York, seeking re-election.
Ausma Malik is the City of Toronto’s Councillor for Ward 10 Spadina-Fort York, and her City profile also lists her as First Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Toronto and East York. Her nomination for 2026 was filed on July 7, 2026. The City Clerk’s declaration of results shows her winning the ward on October 24, 2022 with 8,033 votes, the most of 12 candidates.
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Ausma Malik appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 10 Spadina-Fort York. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as July 7, 2026 and the campaign website ausma.ca.
The City’s Members of Council page lists Councillor Ausma Malik for Spadina-Fort York. Her City profile gives her the titles First Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Toronto and East York. It lists her committees and boards as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Striking Committee, Chair of the Exhibition Place Board of Governors, Vice-Chair of the Toronto and East York Community Council, Vice-Chair of the Civic Appointments Committee and Chair of the Committee of Revision, among others. The profile ends with the line “Information provided by Councillor”, so its account of her earlier work is her own, published on the City’s page. It says she was a Toronto District School Board trustee from 2014 to 2018 and, from 2016 to 2022, Director of Advocacy and Organizing at the Atkinson Foundation. The page shows the date modified as July 7, 2026. It gives no start date for her term as Councillor, so voche.me states none.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the October 24, 2022 general election lists Ausma Malik first among 12 candidates for Councillor in Ward 10 Spadina-Fort York, with 8,033 votes, marked elected. April Engelberg was second with 4,690. The 12 declared totals add up to 21,978 votes, so her share was 36.6 percent and Engelberg’s was 21.3 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures.
The Local’s Ward 10 candidate tracker, updated as of September 21, 2026, describes her work in its own words. It says she moved a motion in July to make ferry rides to the Toronto Island free for children and seniors for all of August, worked to secure public access to the new Toronto Tempo facility at 701 Fleet Street, and has pushed for a new public park and pool on the Rees Street parking lot. It adds that she has not released a detailed policy platform. Those descriptions are The Local’s. voche.me could not open the City’s decisions record (it returned HTTP 403), so no recorded vote is attributed to her from the City.
Her campaign website home page, headed Re-Elect Ausma Malik, carries a letter in her name. It says she has prioritised local concerns and been a champion for affordable housing, public spaces, transit and safer streets, and that she is asking for a second term. The menu also lists My Record and My Plan pages, which voche.me did not open. These are the campaign’s statements.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
Her home page says that as Councillor she has prioritised local concerns and been a champion for affordable housing, public spaces, better public transit and safer streets, and that she wants to keep building on that work.
This is the campaign’s own statement, and the page names no figures or timelines.
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, its Members of Council page and her Councillor profile, the City Clerk’s declaration of results for 2022, the home page of her campaign website, The Local’s Ward 10 candidate tracker and The Green Line’s Ward 10 guide. Her role comes from the City’s own pages. Every statement taken from her campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account. The sitting Ward 10 councillor is Ausma Malik. The seven other candidates for the ward are Aanchal Vashistha, Andi Hoàng-Lefranc, Bashar Kassir, Husain Neemuchwala, Ian Cunningham, Paul Nash and Xue Ding.
Gaps. The City’s decisions site refused the request (HTTP 403), so no recorded vote and no Council decision is cited from the City. The motion, the Toronto Tempo agreement and the park proposals come from The Local’s description and were not read in the City’s records. Her trustee service and her Atkinson Foundation role come from her City profile and were not checked with the school board or the foundation. The My Record and My Plan pages of her website and her social media accounts were not opened. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The City’s Members of Council page lists her as Councillor for Spadina-Fort York, with the titles First Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Toronto and East York. The City Clerk’s declaration of results shows her elected in Ward 10 on October 24, 2022 with 8,033 votes.
City of Toronto · Councillor Ausma MalikHer City profile, which carries the line “Information provided by Councillor”, says she served as a Toronto District School Board trustee from 2014 to 2018. voche.me did not check the board’s own record.
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Yes. Ausma Malik currently serves as City Councillor, Ward 10 Spadina-Fort York.
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