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Ward 22 — Scarborough-Agincourt

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Reading this in real time: every registrant figure below — who’s filed, incumbency, candidate counts — is a snapshot as of 2026-08-14, from the City Clerk’s candidate feeds. Nominations close Friday, August 21, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. — this page re-pulls and re-stamps every registrant figure after that date. Geography, transit, development and census figures are structural facts that don’t move at nomination close and are dated separately, section by section.

Scarborough-Agincourt sits in the middle of Scarborough, bounded by Steeles Avenue East, Highway 401, Victoria Park Avenue, and Midland Avenue — a fully built-out, largely residential ward with no subway or LRT line of its own, but with Agincourt GO station near its centre. Its biggest current civic story is redevelopment near that station: the 26-acre Agincourt Mall site and the six-parcel Cowdray Court lands next to it are both moving through City approvals toward thousands of new homes. The ward's population is heavily immigrant and multilingual — Mandarin and Cantonese are its two most-common non-official home languages — a mix reflected in its Sheppard Avenue retail strip and in the closure, within the past three years, of both the ward's longtime English-language community paper and a Chinese-language daily whose Toronto office was historically based in Agincourt.

The race & the 2022 baseline

2022 result: Nick Mantas won by 30.2 percentage points over the runner-up — a landslide, not a close call. Source: City of Toronto official 2022 election results, as_of 2026-08-16.

This ward’s own 2022 turnout was 26.03% (17,469 of 67,123 eligible electors cast a ballot) — compared to a citywide 2022 turnout of 29.7% that year. Source: City of Toronto, City Clerk’s Office, “Elections – Voter Statistics” (2022 dataset), cross-checked against the Clerk’s own 2022 Municipal Election Report.

Who’s running here in 2026 (7)

Every candidate filed in this ward as of 2026-08-16, alphabetical by surname, identical fields for every name. Bios are synthesized only from each candidate’s own published campaign material and registry facts — never from news coverage, opposition material, or this project’s own judgment (see Receipts below).

Madhuri Azad

Registered 2026-05-19 · Website: https://www.madhuriazad.ca/

Madhuri Azad is a candidate for Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, registered on May 19, 2026. As of August 14, 2026 her campaign site was a holding page stating "our full campaign website is launching soon" and did not include a platform or issues page; a linked flyer page repeats the same holding message alongside two image-based flyer graphics whose text was not extracted for this profile. No campaign priorities or biographical details beyond her name, office sought, and ward were available from the site as of this capture.

Bill Chan

Registered 2026-07-15 · Website: no campaign website on file

Bill Chan is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, in the 2026 municipal election, registered on July 15, 2026. As of August 14, 2026, no campaign website or published platform had been located.

Jackson Ho

Registered 2026-06-12 · Website: https://www.voteforjackson.ca/

Jackson Ho is a candidate for Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, registered on June 12, 2026. His campaign site lists priorities including investing in residents ahead of what he calls mega-events, noting the ward still has no subway station of its own; tax relief for local businesses and opposition to removing speed cameras; regulating unlicensed high-powered e-mopeds and closing what the site calls an e-bike classification loophole; a resident-driven snow-removal proposal that would pay locals directly rather than external contractors; having the City purchase existing condo units for subsidized low-income rent; funding 40 hours per year per officer for community engagement through the existing Auxiliary Program; and prioritizing an extension of Line 4.

Rakhee Kotecha

Registered 2026-07-22 · Website: no campaign website on file

Rakhee Kotecha is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, in the 2026 municipal election, registered on July 22, 2026. As of August 14, 2026, no campaign website or published platform had been located.

Dan Lovell

Registered 2026-05-01 · Website: https://danlovell.ca

Dan Lovell is a candidate for Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, registered on May 1, 2026. His campaign site, under the banner "making life affordable for Scarborough families," lists pledges including freezing property taxes while funding services through new taxes on vacant homes, luxury homes, and vacant commercial units; free TTC for youth and seniors; a publicly run grocery chain aimed at near-cost groceries; restoring and expanding public housing stock; redeveloping the Bridletowne Neighbourhood Centre site; returning snow removal to city crews rather than private contractors; new protected bike lanes; and a proposed indoor maximum-heat bylaw to protect tenants and condo residents.

Nick Mantas (incumbent)

Registered 2026-07-20 · Website: https://www.nickmantas.ca/

Nick Mantas is the incumbent councillor for Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, registered as a candidate on July 20, 2026. His website is his sitting-councillor constituency site -- covering committees, ward surveys, petitions, and development updates -- rather than a distinct 2026 campaign platform; as of August 14, 2026 it did not include an itemized platform or issues page, and this bio is based on materials whose currency could not be confirmed (the site's footer carries a 2024 copyright notice, alongside an events listing dated into 2026). The site describes a background in public service and advocacy on sports accessibility and cultural preservation, but no forward-looking policy commitments could be drawn from it for this profile.

Donny Morgan

Registered 2026-06-19 · Website: https://www.donnymorgan.ca

Donny Morgan is a candidate for Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt, registered on June 19, 2026. His campaign site, under the theme "committed to community and change," describes a long-time community member with a hands-on volunteering background. His platform lists four concerns motivating his campaign: cost-of-living affordability; public safety framed to include prevention and support services rather than policing alone; gaps in youth support such as after-school programs and mental health care; and transit and public-service reliability. The site's stated core values are stronger communities, affordability and responsible leadership, and investing in the future, with a focus list covering local businesses, responsible budgeting, safer neighbourhoods, and support for youth, families, and seniors.

Absence of a website, a bio, or any campaign material on this page is a fact about the public record and this project’s search on 2026-08-14 — not a judgment about any candidate’s effort, seriousness, or worth. Every candidate below gets the identical fields, the identical format, and the identical treatment, alphabetically by surname, whether incumbent or first-time, well-resourced or not.

Geography & boundaries

Legally defined (per the ward's Wikipedia article, citing the Elections Ontario legal description, reproduced there verbatim): the ward is bounded by Steeles Avenue East to the north, Highway 401 to the south, Victoria Park Avenue to the west, and Midland Avenue to the east. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_22_Scarborough%E2%80%94Agincourt, accessed 2026-08-14]

Named neighbourhoods commonly associated with the ward, per that same source: L'Amoreaux, Tam O'Shanter, and part of Agincourt. [Source: same as above]

Per the template's own caution, no formal neighbourhood-to-ward polygon join was performed; the above reports only what the cited sources themselves state about neighbourhood boundaries relative to the ward's own legal boundary.

Civic texture — what’s live here

Transit & development

Local commons

Toronto Public Library branches and Parks, Forestry & Recreation community/recreation centres located inside this ward’s boundary, joined by geographic coordinates (see Receipts) — complete citywide datasets for both layers, every ward covered.

Public libraries (3)

Community & recreation centres (8)

Parks aren’t listed here: parks joining is partial citywide — not shown rather than shown unevenly. The citywide parks join has fetched and joined 400 of the dataset’s 1,511 Park-type rows so far; that 400-row sample isn’t evenly distributed enough per ward to publish per-ward park lists or counts responsibly yet.

Local media landscape

Networks & local commons

As of August 17, 2026, this project's public organization registry maps 85 organizations directly to Ward 22 (Scarborough-Agincourt) — corrected the same day from the 2 this brief had stated since mid-August, when a registry-wide bug was found: the public ward pages had been reading only the single canonical `"Ward 22 (Scarborough-Agincourt)"` tag spelling and silently missing every alternate format the registry's own geography join (`org_placements.csv`) already resolves (bare `"Ward 22"`, a bare riding name, and more). The 2 organizations named below remain this ward's own individually-verified, hand-researched anchors — that research is untouched by this fix. The 83 more behind today's 85 total are principally bulk City/CRA register rows (early-years childcare, K-12 parent councils) captured registry-wide rather than ward-by-ward, carrying the weaker `seed-web-verified` status rather than a direct confirmation; 5 of the 85 total carry `verified-live` status, including:

These are a starting point, not a finished map. This brief's Local Commons section above already names Ward 22's civic-infrastructure anchors; those are the next nodes the sweep will connect these organizations to as it goes deeper, and city-wide organization mapping is underway ward by ward to reach the rest of this ward's faith communities, resident and tenant associations, cultural groups, service organizations, and the dozens of other categories this project tracks.

If you lead, work with, or simply know of an organization rooted in this ward, this project's tribes directory at https://unitetolove.ca/tribes/directory.html is where to add it or correct what's already there — every addition is checked against a public source before it's published.

The ward in numbers (2021 Census)

Source: City of Toronto Ward Profiles (25-Ward Model), Statistics Canada 2021 Census custom tabulations, City Planning Division, published December 2023. Household income reflects the 2020 reference year.

Population103,690
Median age45.2
Median household income (2020)$77,000
Renter / owner household split33.8% / 66.2%
Top home languages (excl. English/French)Mandarin (15,600), Yue (Cantonese) (15,050), Tamil (2,845)
Land area21.4 km²

See the citywide summary table for the same census columns, all 25 wards, one page.

What else is on your ballot

Every Toronto voter marks three races on October 26, 2026: this ward’s councillor (above), the citywide mayor, and one school trustee.

This ward’s trustee-crosswalk precision note: TDSB: NOT ESTABLISHED. TCDSB confirmed exact (TCDSB's own board page names Ward7 'Scarborough-Agincourt', an exact match to this city ward's name). Viamonde exact. MonAvenir not disambiguated.

Get involved — from thirty seconds to a year

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This is a neighbours’ project rather than a campaign or an organization: it publishes tools, data and evidence, and leaves every decision to the person reading. Nothing here endorses a candidate or a party, and nothing here needs our permission to be used.

What this page doesn’t cover yet

This ward’s research brief names these additional gaps, plainly, rather than guessing over them:

Receipts — where every figure on this page comes from

This ward’s research-brief sources:

Per-candidate research notes, QA flags, and source-capture logs are kept in this project’s internal working files, not published here; every bio and every fact on this page is drawn from that work but the page itself states the fact, not the working notes behind it.

Found a mistake?

That’s the system working. Every figure on this page traces to a public source or a candidate’s own published material, cited in the Receipts section above; if one is wrong, out of date, or reads differently than the source supports, we want to know before anyone else repeats it. Send it to the corrections page — it takes thirty seconds, and every correction is published, dated, and left visible.