Sitting Councillor for Ward 15 Don Valley West, seeking re-election.
Rachel Chernos Lin is the City of Toronto’s Councillor for Ward 15 Don Valley West, and her City profile lists the committees and boards she sits on. Her nomination for 2026 was filed on July 22, 2026. The City Clerk’s declaration of results shows her winning the November 4, 2024 by-election with 12,899 votes, the most of 16 candidates.
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Rachel Chernos Lin appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 15 Don Valley West. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as July 22, 2026 and the campaign website voterachel.ca.
The City’s Members of Council page lists Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin for Ward 15 Don Valley West. Her City profile, which ends with the line "Information provided by the Councillor", says she is Chair of the City-School Boards Advisory Committee and sits on the Infrastructure and Environment Committee, the Film, Television and Digital Media Advisory Board and North York Community Council. It says she serves on the boards of Toronto Hydro, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, Leaside Memorial Community Gardens Arena and the Canadian Film Centre. The profile gives no start date for her time as councillor.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the 2024 Councillor Ward 15 Don Valley West by-election, a vote held to fill the seat between general elections, on Monday, November 4, 2024 and dated November 6, 2024, lists Rachel Chernos Lin first of 16 candidates with 12,899 votes, marked elected. The 16 declared totals add up to 23,555 votes, so her share was 54.8 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. Anthony Furey was second with 7,343. Sheena Sharp, also a 2026 candidate in this ward, was fourth with 575.
Her City profile says that before she became a councillor she served six years as a Toronto District School Board trustee, two of them as Chair. The City Clerk’s results list Rachel Chernos Lin first for trustee in the school ward it numbers Ward 11, with 9,440 votes of 8 candidates in the October 2018 election and 10,692 votes of 3 candidates in the October 2022 election, marked elected both times. The 2022 share was 64.1 percent of 16,691 declared votes, calculated by voche.me. Her City profile and The Local, which says she was elected a trustee in 2018, tie these entries to her.
The Local, in its tracker updated September 21, 2026, reports that she put forward successful motions that changed the staff-prepared bubble zone bylaw, a bylaw that limits protests near places of worship, child care centres and schools, and that she also moved motions on AI data centres, tree protection and the Peace Garden. The Local also says that in key votes she has "almost always voted with the mayor". Those are The Local’s accounts. The City’s decisions site was not available to voche.me, so no recorded vote is cited from the City.
Her campaign website says she is seeking re-election and claims more than a hundred motions at City Hall and a record of local engagement through Coffee Chats and town halls. Those are the campaign’s own statements. TTCriders, a transit rider group, asked every Ward 15 candidate 18 questions about the TTC, and its page lists her as an incumbent who gave no response to any of them. That list is TTCriders’ record.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
Her priorities page says she is calling for unit sizes that make sense, more affordable housing near transit, and parks, recreation facilities, child care and services close to home as neighbourhoods grow.
Rachel Chernos Lin · PrioritiesHer priorities page calls for modern signal technology, fewer long lane closures by developers, public transit use, a bike lane network built with local input, and action on pedestrian safety, which it calls perhaps the most common issue raised by Ward 15 residents.
Rachel Chernos Lin · PrioritiesHer campaign names tackling crime so neighbourhoods are safe, responsible budgeting at City Hall, and environmental stewardship including the tree canopy, clean energy and the effects of AI data centres.
Rachel Chernos Lin · campaign home pageEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, its Members of Council page and Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin’s profile, the City Clerk’s declarations of results for the 2024 by-election and for 2022 and 2018, three pages of her campaign website (home page, Priorities and Accomplishments), The Local’s Ward 15 tracker and TTCriders’ page of Ward 15 candidate responses. Every statement taken from her campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account.
Ward context. The sitting Ward 15 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Rachel Chernos Lin, who is also a candidate. The City’s list has 3 candidates for Ward 15: Rachel Chernos Lin, Sheena Sharp and Denis Tsang. The City Clerk’s 2022 results for Ward 15 list four candidates: Jaye Robinson (16,142 votes, elected), Sheena Sharp (2,780), David Ricci (2,438) and Gregory Vaz (389). The City Clerk’s declaration for the November 4, 2024 by-election lists Rachel Chernos Lin first with 12,899 votes, marked elected. A search for a 2026 debate or all-candidates meeting in the ward found none.
Gaps. The City’s decisions site returned HTTP 403, so no recorded vote or Council decision is cited from the City, and The Local’s statements about her votes and motions were not checked against the City record. Her campaign’s list of accomplishments was read and is not repeated here as fact. Her social media accounts were not read. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The City’s Members of Council page lists her as the Ward 15 Councillor, and her City profile lists her committee and board seats. The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the November 4, 2024 by-election lists her as elected. The City’s profile gives no start date.
City of Toronto · Councillor Rachel Chernos LinHer City profile, text she supplied, gives six years of service including two as Chair. The City Clerk’s 2018 and 2022 results list her as elected trustee in the school ward numbered 11.
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Yes. Rachel Chernos Lin currently serves as City Councillor, Ward 15 Don Valley West.
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