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title: "Ten candidates running in Ward 1 Etobicoke North, with Crisanti facing four challengers"
description: "The Local profiles the Ward 1 race where incumbent Vincent Crisanti, first elected in 2010, faces ten candidates including Chloe Brown, Norman Hamilton and Ala'a Adib, with voting day on Oct. 26."
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Ten candidates are on the Ward 1 Etobicoke North ballot for the Oct. 26 vote, and The Local published a profile of the race on Oct. 21, 2026, written by Andrea Yu with photographs by Chloë Ellingson.

[Vincent Crisanti](/on/toronto-2026/candidates/vincent-crisanti), 73, is seeking re-election. He was first elected to Toronto City Council in 2010 and represented the ward before the 2018 redistricting. He won the 2022 election with 41 per cent of the vote, according to The Local. The Local reported that Crisanti missed 332 council votes since the 2022 election, the second-highest absence rate on council, and that he declined interview requests from the publication.

[Chloe Brown](/on/toronto-2026/candidates/chloe-brown) is a policy analyst and the most prominent challenger. She grew up in Rowntree Manor, a 14-storey Toronto Community Housing building at Finch Avenue and Islington Avenue, from age 5 to 11. She placed third in the 2022 Toronto mayoral race and also ran in the 2023 mayoral by-election. She told The Local that she worked on a community benefit agreement for the Woodbine casino redevelopment, which, according to Brown, secured a commitment that 50 per cent of 2,500 jobs created would go to local residents or equity-deserving people.

[Norman Hamilton](/on/toronto-2026/candidates/norman-hamilton) immigrated from Jamaica and studied accounting at Humber College, which is located in the ward. He owns Truck Repair Hotline Inc., a business operating in Ward 1. The Local reported that his platform focuses on youth employment, including co-op style work programs through his business, and that he favours greater public investment in Etobicoke North relative to the more southern Etobicoke wards.

[Ala'a Adib](/on/toronto-2026/candidates/ala-a-adib) is a community organizer and one of ten candidates on the ballot.

Transit, affordable housing, renter protections, youth employment and senior services are the central issues in the race, according to The Local. The ward has six stations on the Finch West LRT. Nearly 50 per cent of ward residents are renters and 56.6 per cent are immigrants, compared with the citywide average of 46.6 per cent. Voter turnout in Ward 1 was 35 per cent in 2022, below the citywide average of 41 per cent.

The ward's boundaries run from Steeles Avenue in the north to Highway 427 in the west, Eglinton Avenue and Dixon Road in the south, and the Humber River in the east.

Voting day is Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. You can compare all Ward 1 candidates at the [Ward 1 Etobicoke North race page](/on/toronto-2026/races/councillor/ward-1-etobicoke-north).

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