Candidate for Councillor in Ward 12 Toronto-St. Paul's, who finished third in the ward in 2022.
Bob Murphy is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 12 Toronto-St. Paul's, with a nomination filed on August 21, 2026. The City Clerk’s declaration of results shows a Bob Murphy third in this ward in 2022 with 1,175 votes, and The Local and a 2022 community group Q&A tie that entry to him. The City’s list shows no campaign website for him.
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Toronto municipal electionBob Murphy appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 12 Toronto-St. Paul's. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 21, 2026 and no campaign website.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the October 24, 2022 general election lists a Bob Murphy third among 4 candidates for Councillor in Ward 12 Toronto-St. Paul’s, with 1,175 votes. Josh Matlow was elected with 22,670. The 4 declared totals add up to 26,782 votes, so the Bob Murphy entry’s share was 4.4 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. The City’s document gives only a name. The Local’s Ward 12 tracker says Bob Murphy came third in the 2022 council race in this ward, and a community group Q&A of October 17, 2022 lists a Bob Murphy among the Ward 12 candidates, so those sources tie the entry to him.
The Local, updated as of September 21, 2026, also says he ran for mayor in 2023 and placed 48th of 102 candidates. That figure is The Local’s, and voche.me did not check it against the City’s results. In the 2022 Q&A, published by the Cedarvale & Upper Village Residents Association, he described himself as a legal writer who has worked in law for a number of years and said he has been involved in local politics for years and worked for a short time on a campaign for Dianne Poole, whom The Local describes as a former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament. Those are his own words from 2022 and were not checked.
CTV News Toronto and CP24 invited registered Toronto council candidates to make their case in a series called Your 30 Seconds, and the CTV page for his entry is dated September 25, 2026. The page holds a short caption and a video, and voche.me did not hear what he said in it.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
In the 2022 Q&A he said he wanted to address the density plan, development and population growth, and to fight for a balance of affordable housing, infrastructure and public transportation.
This is a 2022 statement and no 2026 platform was found. It is his own account, as published by the Cedarvale & Upper Village Residents Association.
In the 2022 Q&A he named stopping the gentrification of Little Jamaica, addressing zoning bylaws that conflict with communities of cultural heritage significance, neighbourhood safety, and the purpose of the Roehampton Hotel property.
This is a 2022 statement and no 2026 platform was found. It is his own account.
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, the City Clerk’s declaration of results for 2022, The Local’s Ward 12 tracker, the 2022 Q&A of the Cedarvale & Upper Village Residents Association, the CTV News Toronto page for his Your 30 Seconds entry and Build Canada’s page of Ward 12 candidate answers. The sitting Ward 12 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Josh Matlow. The City’s list gives no website for him, and no campaign website was found.
Gaps. The City’s 2022 result is tied to him by The Local and by the 2022 Q&A, not by the City. The Local also says a person with the same name serves on a City advisory group. No source ties that person to this candidate, so voche.me leaves it out. The 2022 Q&A also gives where he lives and where he went to school, which voche.me leaves out. The CTV video was not watched. Build Canada lists him as yet to answer its questionnaire. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Work, public service and community involvement will appear here when supplied. No experience has been added to this profile.
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No questions and answers have been supplied.
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The 2026 Toronto municipal election, including the Councillor race, is decided on October 26, 2026.
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