James Pasternak appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 6 York Centre. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 25, 2026 and the campaign website jamespasternak.com.
The City’s Members of Council page lists Councillor James Pasternak for York Centre. His City profile says he was elected to City Council in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 and 2018, and says that before City Hall he was a Toronto District School Board trustee. The profile ends with the line “Information provided by the Councillor”, so these details are his own account, published on the City’s page. The page shows the date modified as July 31, 2026. It lists his committees and boards as the Infrastructure and Environment Committee, the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Board of Directors and the Committee of Revision.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the October 24, 2022 general election lists James Pasternak first among 4 candidates for Councillor in Ward 6 York Centre, with 12,187 votes, marked elected. Mike Arkin was second with 1,916, Hope Schrier third with 1,292 and Basil Canning fourth with 1,179. The 4 declared totals add up to 16,574 votes, so his share was 73.5 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures.
His campaign website says he was born in Bathurst Manor, was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, 2018 and 2022, and holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Western Ontario and York University. It lists the title Mayor’s Envoy for Social Cohesion. It also shows counts of events attended and issues solved. These are the campaign’s statements, and voche.me did not check them against City records.
