Jeff Knoll elected mayor of Oakville, official results show

Update, November 1: The Town has now posted the results for every voting location and tabulator, on its "2026 Municipal Election Results by Location" page, and the ballots cast at each site on each voting day, on "2026 Municipal Election Ballots Cast per Location". Both are linked from the Town's 2026 Municipal Election page. Every candidate's total in the location tables matches the Clerk's declaration, so no figure in this story changes. OakvilleIQ's November 1 story sets out where each mayoral candidate led and how the advance polls voted.

Update, October 28: The Town Clerk certified the results on October 27. The Clerk's Declaration of Municipal Election Results matches the election night figures in this story: no candidate's count changed, the same 18 candidates are declared elected, and the six acclamations stand. The Town's official figures show 60,638 ballots cast by 176,984 eligible electors, a turnout of 34.26 per cent, with 53 declined or rejected ballots. The Town says the inaugural meeting of the new Council is Monday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall, where members will take their oath of office, and that results by voting location would be posted later in the week.

Mayor

Jeff Knoll was elected mayor of Oakville on Monday, October 26, with 21,866 votes, or 36.3 per cent of the 60,216 votes cast in the mayoral race, according to the Town of Oakville's unofficial results with all 47 polls reported. Sean O'Meara was second with 13,567 votes (22.5 per cent), followed by Rob Burton with 12,254 (20.4 per cent), Julia Hanna with 10,642 (17.7 per cent) and Arvind Choudhary with 1,887 (3.1 per cent).

Town and Regional Councillors

Each ward elects a Town and Regional Councillor, who sits on both Oakville Town Council and Halton Regional Council. Three of the seven seats were filled by acclamation before the vote: Jonathan McNeice in Ward 1, Janet Haslett-Theall in Ward 3 and Tom Adams in Ward 6. In the four contested wards, the Town Clerk's official results show:

• Ward 2: Stacey Saunders elected with 3,002 votes (38.3 per cent). Sarah Perkin 2,202 (28.1 per cent), Desmond Jordan 1,896 (24.2 per cent), Zena Al-Mudaris 741 (9.5 per cent).
• Ward 4: Roger Lapworth elected with 3,994 votes (34.0 per cent). Suzan Chong 3,130 (26.6 per cent), Hutchison Lee 2,090 (17.8 per cent), Kashif (Kash) Chaudry 1,051 (8.9 per cent), Farah Shamim 1,023 (8.7 per cent), Vandana Giri 471 (4.0 per cent).
• Ward 5: Mackenzie Grant elected with 3,910 votes (43.5 per cent). Michael Reid 3,277 (36.5 per cent), Orla Johnston 1,794 (20.0 per cent).
• Ward 7: Nav Nanda elected with 2,245 votes (40.5 per cent). Bilal Kader 1,869 (33.7 per cent), Vick Walia 833 (15.0 per cent), Ajay Rosha 401 (7.2 per cent), Gaganpreet Darar 202 (3.6 per cent).

Town Councillors

All seven Town Councillor seats, one per ward, were contested. The Town Clerk's official results show:

• Ward 1: Alexandra Caldwell elected with 4,133 votes (48.3 per cent). Nancy Ortenburg 2,033 (23.8 per cent), Pierce Lang 1,166 (13.6 per cent), David Imrie 687 (8.0 per cent), Amir Henry 533 (6.2 per cent).
• Ward 2: Ray Chisholm elected with 5,774 votes (73.1 per cent). Sana Waqar 1,121 (14.2 per cent), Ayesha Khawaja 1,003 (12.7 per cent).
• Ward 3: Morgan Elliott elected with 5,551 votes (75.9 per cent). Jen Zhou 1,761 (24.1 per cent).
• Ward 4: Peter Longo elected with 9,528 votes (80.4 per cent). Syed Tahir 1,469 (12.4 per cent), Luba Slanina 856 (7.2 per cent).
• Ward 5: Audrey Wubbenhorst elected with 2,657 votes (29.2 per cent). Matt Ray Smith 2,455 (27.0 per cent), Sue Heddle 1,873 (20.6 per cent), Jerome Adamo 1,115 (12.3 per cent), Thane Mitches 547 (6.0 per cent), Mirsab Fasih 444 (4.9 per cent).
• Ward 6: Natalia Lishchyna elected with 4,849 votes (65.1 per cent). Pierre Sauvageot 1,535 (20.6 per cent), Smita Tulsani 1,069 (14.3 per cent).
• Ward 7: Scott Xie elected with 3,027 votes (54.5 per cent). Zulfi Malik 1,645 (29.6 per cent), Ali Hosny 884 (15.9 per cent).

School board trustees

Six trustee seats were contested in Oakville. Chris Saunders was acclaimed for the Halton Catholic District School Board in Wards 4 and 7, Sonia Macaluso for Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Diane Courchesne for Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. In the contested seats, the Town Clerk's official results show:

• Halton District School Board, Wards 1 and 2: Carole Baxter elected with 9,388 votes (82.2 per cent). Zafar Kayani 1,252 (11.0 per cent), Hamzah Khan 779 (6.8 per cent).
• Halton District School Board, Wards 3 and 6: Rebecca Mayville elected with 8,291 votes (79.1 per cent). Vinay Paramanand 1,246 (11.9 per cent), Tausif Sabir 940 (9.0 per cent).
• Halton District School Board, Ward 4: Ira Davidov elected with 3,203 votes (40.7 per cent). Virginia Nsitem 2,519 (32.0 per cent), Deepak Pathania 1,291 (16.4 per cent), Florin Cristian Vilcu 859 (10.9 per cent).
• Halton District School Board, Wards 5 and 7: Kim Tait elected with 2,996 votes (27.5 per cent). Jake Zhu 2,564 (23.6 per cent), Lily Bharat 2,369 (21.8 per cent), Azra Ghumman 2,079 (19.1 per cent), Ahmed Gohar 504 (4.6 per cent), Ashish Maggo 375 (3.4 per cent).
• Halton Catholic District School Board, Wards 1, 2 and 3: Mario Jelic elected with 2,336 votes (51.6 per cent). Tom Murad 1,252 (27.6 per cent), Martin Gegus 941 (20.8 per cent).
• Halton Catholic District School Board, Wards 5 and 6: Helena Karabela elected with 2,563 votes (62.2 per cent). Sean McCarthy 1,555 (37.8 per cent).

Turnout

The Town's results page shows 60,638 ballots cast by 176,984 eligible electors, a turnout of 34.26 per cent, with all 47 polls reported. Vote shares in this story are each candidate's votes as a share of all votes cast in that race, so they do not use the ballot count as the base.

What happens next

The Town Clerk declared these results official on October 27, 2026. The four-year term of the new Council begins on November 15, 2026, as the Municipal Elections Act sets for every regular election, and the Town's meetings calendar lists the new Council's first meeting on Monday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m.