Personal availability, as his campaign states
His site pledges that if elected he will personally answer residents’ phone calls 24 hours a day and always use public transportation to attend Council meetings.
Hamid Shakeri · campaign website01 / Introduction
About Hamid Shakeri
Hamid Shakeri appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 18 Willowdale. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 19, 2026 and the campaign website hamidshakeri.ca.
His website, the campaign’s own statement, lists a work history that includes professional language interpreter, technical director of an industrial materials testing laboratory, freelance engineering materials consultant, research scientist in the University of Toronto’s Department of Materials Engineering, and lead physical metallurgist at the National Research Council Canada. It lists a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Toronto. The Local’s tracker gives a similar account, citing his LinkedIn page. voche.me did not check these roles or degrees with the employers or the universities.
His pledge, in his own words, is that if elected he will personally answer residents’ phone calls 24 hours a day and always use public transportation to attend Council meetings. His Our Vision section names four areas: affordability, with line-by-line financial oversight at City Hall; transit and traffic, with smarter traffic signal timing and better bus reliability; housing and development, with balanced growth that respects single-family neighbourhoods; and community safety, with well-lit public infrastructure, repaired sidewalks and community-led security networks. These are the campaign’s statements.
02 / The issues
Priorities & positions
Campaign-source summarySummarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
Affordability and oversight, as his campaign states
His Our Vision section says he will push for line-by-line financial oversight at City Hall and keep property taxes predictable.
Hamid Shakeri · campaign websiteTransit and traffic, as his campaign states
His Our Vision section says he will advocate for smarter traffic signal timing along major corridors and better bus reliability.
Hamid Shakeri · campaign websiteHousing and safety, as his campaign states
His Our Vision section says he will back balanced growth that respects single-family neighbourhoods while expanding affordable options, and will invest in well-lit public infrastructure and repaired sidewalks.
Hamid Shakeri · campaign websiteResearch status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates and Members of Council page, the home page of his campaign website (a single page with About, Our Vision, Voter Info and Literature sections), The Local’s Ward 18 tracker, Build Canada’s Ward 18 page and its page for him, TTCriders’ Ward 18 page and The Green Line’s list of ward debates. No public office is on record in his profile. Every statement taken from his campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account.
Ward context. The sitting Ward 18 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Lily Cheng, who is also a candidate. The 6 candidates for Ward 18 on the City’s list are Lily Cheng, Nicole Daneshvar, David Magazzinich, Hamid Shakeri, Nathan Yusifov and Ardeshir Zarezade. The City Clerk’s 2022 results for Ward 18 list 4 candidates: Lily Cheng (8,337 votes, elected), Markus O’Brien Fehr (6,709), Daniel Lee (4,617) and Elham Shahban (318). Of the other five 2026 candidates, none appears by name anywhere in the Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results. Build Canada’s Ward 18 page says no candidate had answered its questionnaire, and TTCriders’ page records no response from any of the five candidates it lists for the 18 questions it asked. The Green Line’s list of ward debates names none for Ward 18. A name search returned a mention of an all-candidates debate registration for Ward 18, but the page carrying it was not opened, so voche.me states no date, host or attendance.
Gaps. The City Clerk’s 2018 results list a Hamid Shakeri among the Ward 18 candidates with 122 votes. No source opened ties that entry to this candidate, so voche.me leaves it out and gives no 2018 result. His work history and degrees were not checked with the employers or the universities. The Local’s tracker also describes content on his campaign social media. voche.me did not read those posts and uses nothing from them. His Instagram profile opened and returned only a summary without post text. His LinkedIn and YouTube links were not opened. Build Canada’s page lists no questionnaire answers from him, and TTCriders’ page records no response from him. The questionnaire has not been sent.
City of Toronto · list of certified candidatesHamid Shakeri · campaign websiteThe Local · Ward 18 Willowdale candidate tracker, updated September 21, 2026Build Canada · Ward 18 Willowdale candidate pageBuild Canada · Hamid Shakeri candidate pageTTCriders · Ward 18 Willowdale candidate responsesThe Green Line · Find your ward councillor candidates at these Toronto eventsCity Clerk · Official Declaration of Results, 2018 Toronto municipal election
03 / Background
Experience & community
Background not supplied
Work, public service and community involvement will appear here when supplied. No experience has been added to this profile.
04 / Questions & answers
Questions for the candidate
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
No questions and answers have been supplied.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Hamid Shakeri's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Hamid Shakeri?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Hamid Shakeri's own campaign.
Does Hamid Shakeri currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Hamid Shakeri.
How many sources does this Hamid Shakeri profile cite?
This profile lists 8 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Hamid Shakeri's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Hamid Shakeri in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Hamid Shakeri is running in?
The 2026 Toronto municipal election, including the Councillor race, is decided on October 26, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.
Sources & transparency
- City of Toronto · list of certified candidates Checked
- Hamid Shakeri · campaign website Checked
- The Local · Ward 18 Willowdale candidate tracker, updated September 21, 2026 Checked
- Build Canada · Ward 18 Willowdale candidate page Checked
- Build Canada · Hamid Shakeri candidate page Checked
- TTCriders · Ward 18 Willowdale candidate responses Checked
- The Green Line · Find your ward councillor candidates at these Toronto events Checked
- City Clerk · Official Declaration of Results, 2018 Toronto municipal election Checked
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