--- title: "Mostafa Zandkarimi: candidate for mayor, Toronto 2026 | voche.me" canonical_url: "https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates/mostafa-zandkarimi" last_updated: "2026-10-10T04:09:42.899Z" meta: description: "Mostafa Zandkarimi is on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor, with a nomination filed on August 5, 2026. His campaign website desc..." "og:description": "Mostafa Zandkarimi is on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor, with a nomination filed on August 5, 2026. His campaign website desc..." "og:title": "Mostafa Zandkarimi: candidate for mayor, Toronto 2026" "twitter:description": "Mostafa Zandkarimi is on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor, with a nomination filed on August 5, 2026. His campaign website desc..." "twitter:title": "Mostafa Zandkarimi: candidate for mayor, Toronto 2026" --- ** Mayor · Toronto 2026 # Mostafa Zandkarimi Student, editor and civic researcher running for Mayor on a listening and evidence approach. Mostafa Zandkarimi is on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor, with a nomination filed on August 5, 2026. His campaign website describes him as a Toronto-based student, editor and civic researcher, and says its platform is still being developed, with no policy published yet. Explore priorities Campaign links Researched by voche.me · Not a campaign-authored page Candidate space2026 ![Mostafa Zandkarimi, from Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign.](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/images/candidates/mostafa-zandkarimi-640.webp) *Mostafa ZandkarimiMayorv.* [Image: Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign](https://zandkarimi.ca/about) 01 / Introduction ## About Mostafa Zandkarimi Mostafa Zandkarimi appears on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 5, 2026. His campaign website says he is a student, editor, civic researcher and youth leader who graduated from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in 2026 and says he will enter the University of Toronto in September 2026. It says he founded and edits Midah, an independent Toronto publication, and has published six open-access issues. The Local reports that he is the founder of an online publication, completed a high school co-op placement at a law firm, and was a member of the Canada Youth Changemakers Summit. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them against another source. His website says he built the Toronto Issue Intelligence Observatory, a record of 83 issues from 129 sources, as the starting point for the campaign. That count is the campaign's own figure. Read the sources 02 / The issues ## Priorities & positions Campaign-source summary Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform. 01 ### Six areas of listening His campaign page lists six areas it is asking residents about: housing and affordability, transit and movement, services that work, safety and belonging, strong neighbourhoods, and trust and accountability. It calls these areas of active listening and research, and not finalized promises. [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · For Mayor ](https://zandkarimi.ca/mayor) 02 ### How the platform will be published His campaign page says each policy release will explain the problem, the responsibility of the mayor and City Hall, the approach and how progress will be measured. Its policy library showed 0 published policies when voche.me read it. [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · For Mayor ](https://zandkarimi.ca/mayor) Research status ## What voche.me has checked Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates, the home, Meet Mostafa and For Mayor pages of the campaign website that The Local links for him, and The Local's candidate page. The City's list shows no website for him, so voche.me confirmed the site belongs to him from its own text, which gives his name as the official ballot name and calls him a candidate for Mayor, and from The Local, whose description matches it. His statements are written here as his campaign's own. Gaps. His policy library was empty when read, so no platform is recorded. voche.me found no independent record of his education, publication or placement, and Midah, the school and the law firm were not asked. His Instagram and LinkedIn accounts were not opened. A web search for his name returned his website, election trackers and no news report. No public role is on the profile. The questionnaire has not been sent. [City of Toronto · list of certified candidates](https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/elections/candidate-list/) [The Local · Toronto Mayoral Candidates 2026 (updated as of September 21, 2026)](https://thelocal.to/toronto-mayoral-candidates-2026/) [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Home](https://zandkarimi.ca/) [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet Mostafa](https://zandkarimi.ca/about) [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · For Mayor](https://zandkarimi.ca/mayor) 03 / Background ## Experience & community Dates not given ### Founder and editor of Midah His campaign website says he founded and edits Midah, an independent Toronto publication for politics, theology, literature, culture, essays, interviews and poetry, with six open-access issues published. voche.me did not open the publication. [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet Mostafa](https://zandkarimi.ca/about) High school ### President of Model United Nations and the Debate Club, Forest Hill Collegiate Institute His campaign website says he held both presidencies and was Vice President of the Asian Student Alliance. The school was not asked. [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet Mostafa](https://zandkarimi.ca/about) 2024 ### Supervised placement at Grinhaus Law Firm His campaign website says he did a supervised placement there in 2024. The firm was not asked. The Local also reports a high school co-op at a law firm. [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet Mostafa](https://zandkarimi.ca/about) 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. ### Have your own question? Ask Mostafa Zandkarimi directly. We send it to the campaign, and publish the reply here if we get one. 05 / About this page ## Questions about this page Facts voche.me can state about Mostafa Zandkarimi's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Mostafa Zandkarimi? No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Mostafa Zandkarimi's own campaign.
Does Mostafa Zandkarimi currently hold public office? Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Mostafa Zandkarimi.
How many sources does this Mostafa Zandkarimi profile cite? This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Mostafa Zandkarimi's page show no answer? The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Mostafa Zandkarimi 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 Mostafa Zandkarimi is running in? The 2026 Toronto municipal election, including the Mayor 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 ](https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/elections/candidate-list/)Checked October 4, 2026 - [The Local · Toronto Mayoral Candidates 2026 (updated as of September 21, 2026) ](https://thelocal.to/toronto-mayoral-candidates-2026/)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Home ](https://zandkarimi.ca/)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet Mostafa ](https://zandkarimi.ca/about)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · For Mayor ](https://zandkarimi.ca/mayor)Checked October 4, 2026 Missing information does not imply a candidate’s position. [Read our editorial standards.](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/about) Campaign contact ## Campaign links & contact. Find the candidate’s website, social accounts and contact information. [Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website](https://zandkarimi.ca/) ## View more candidates. [All candidate spaces ](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates) [Mayor**Alex Cruze**](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates/alex-cruze) [Mayor**Alton Frederick**](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates/alton-frederick) Candidate Q&A ## Ask Mostafa Zandkarimi a question. Give your name, email and question. We send it to the campaign, and publish their answer here if we get one. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/on/toronto-2026/sitemap.md) for all pages.