Daniel Trayes appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 8 Eglinton-Lawrence. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 1, 2026 and no campaign website.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the November 4, 2024 Ward 15 Don Valley West by-election lists a Daniel Trayes last among 16 candidates, with 5 votes. Rachel Chernos Lin was elected with 12,899. The 16 declared totals add up to 23,555 votes, so his share was 0.02 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. The Clerk’s declaration for the January 15, 2021 Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt by-election lists a Daniel Trayes with 17 votes, 24th of 27 candidates, in a result won by Nick Mantas with 3,261. The 27 declared totals add up to 12,088 votes, so his share was 0.14 percent, calculated by voche.me. The Local’s 2024 by-election page says Daniel Trayes ran in the 2021 Ward 22 by-election and placed 24th of 27, and its 2026 Ward 8 page says he came last of 16 in the 2024 by-election with five votes. Those reports link both entries to this candidate. The Local’s 2024 page also says he ran in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth in 2014 and came last, and its 2026 page says he has run for council four times. voche.me read City results for two of those runs.
The Local’s 2026 Ward 8 page says he is a former staffer for Councillor Paul Ainslie and a member of the board of directors of the Inner City Family Health Team, and that he says he was homeless for nearly 20 years, from 1997 to 2016. These are The Local’s statements about him. voche.me did not check them against another source.
In the 2024 by-election, TTCriders asked candidates what they would prioritize as councillor on public transit. The group’s page quotes him naming the Eglinton Crosstown and Wheel-Trans as his priorities, and states that he has no candidate website.
