Guide
The seven wards, who sits on council, who does what, and the 2026 election.
Oakville has seven wards. Each elects a Town Councillor and a Town and Regional Councillor who, with the Mayor, make up the 15-seat Town Council. Oakville voted on Monday, 26 October 2026. The new term begins on 15 November 2026 and the inaugural Council meeting is 16 November; until then the members listed here are the sitting Council.
As the Town describes each on its ward pages. Each ward elects one Town Councillor and one Town and Regional Councillor.
Current council (term ends November 14, 2026)
| Ward | Where | Town Councillor | Town and Regional Councillor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 1 | Bronte Village and harbour, Bronte GO, Bronte Creek Provincial Park and the southwest corner of Palermo Village. | Jonathan McNeice | Sean O'Meara |
| Ward 2 | Residential neighbourhoods including Glen Abbey, plus Oakville Harbour and Kerr Village, bounded by Sixteen Mile Creek on the east, with a band of commercial and employment land between the QEW and the railway. | Ray Chisholm | Cathy Duddeck |
| Ward 3 | Sixteen Mile Creek to Lake Ontario: Downtown Oakville, Midtown and Oakville GO Station. | Dave Gittings | Janet Haslett-Theall |
| Ward 4 | Northwest Oakville around Dundas Street and Bronte Road, the historic village of Palermo and Glen Abbey Community Centre. | Peter Longo | Allan Elgar |
| Ward 5 | East of Sixteen Mile Creek: Sheridan College, River Oaks Community Centre, Oakville Place and Uptown Core. | Jamie Bay | Jeff Knoll |
| Ward 6 | East Oakville subdivisions either side of Upper Middle Road, out to Winston Churchill Boulevard. | Natalia Lishchyna | Tom Adams |
| Ward 7 | Most of the town north of Dundas Street, from Burlington to Eighth Line and north to Milton, including Sixteen Mile Sports Complex and the hospital. | Scott Xie | Nav Nanda |
Enter your address in the Town's In My Neighbourhood tool to see your ward and your two councillors. Ward Boundary By-law 2016-109 re-divided the former six wards into seven and took the place of By-law 1990-7 on 1 December 2018; the Town also publishes an interactive ward map.
Because Oakville is a lower-tier municipality inside Halton Region. Each ward elects a Town Councillor, who sits only on Town Council, and a Town and Regional Councillor, who sits on both Town Council and Halton Regional Council. The Ward Boundary By-law states that each ward is represented by two councillors, one of whom is also a member of Regional Council.
Town Council has 15 members: the Mayor and two councillors from each of the seven wards. Halton Regional Council has 24: the Regional Chair, 7 members from Burlington, 3 from Halton Hills, 5 from Milton and 8 from Oakville. Oakville's 8 are the Mayor and the seven Town and Regional Councillors. The Regional Chair is the only member who does not also sit on a local council.
The Region's page lists the 2023-2026 council and says it will be updated after the 2026 election once the next term's details are available.
Not for the 2026-2030 term. Under the Province's Better Regional Governance Act, 2026, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing appoints the Chair. Halton's notice of 29 June 2026 said applications would close on 13 July 2026. The Chair is not on the 26 October ballot. The Province says appointed chairs get 'strong chair' powers that mirror strong-mayor powers, including appointing the regional CAO, proposing the budget and vetoing certain by-laws.
Oakville still elects its Town and Regional Councillors, who sit on Regional Council alongside the appointed Chair. The Province's briefing changes council size only in Niagara and Simcoe. The Region's June notice did not name an appointee.
The members named in the table above are the sitting Council, whose term ends on 14 November 2026. Who the Town Clerk's results show elected on 26 October is listed above the table.
Election Day was Monday, 26 October 2026. Voters chose a Mayor and their ward's contested Council and school board trustee seats; the Town and Regional Councillor seats in Wards 1, 3 and 6 and three trustee seats (Halton Catholic Wards 4 and 7, Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir) were filled by acclamation, so no vote was held for them. The new term of Council begins on 15 November 2026 under the Municipal Elections Act, and the Town's 2026 calendar lists the new Council's inaugural meeting on 16 November; the Town says the new Council will be sworn in that day.
The members listed on this page are the sitting Council until the new term begins. The Regional Chair is appointed, not elected.
The Town Clerk certified the results on 27 October 2026, and the Town published the official results, with the votes for every candidate, on elections.oakville.ca. OakvilleIQ's election results page shows them race by race. The Town said on 27 October that results by voting location would be posted later that week.
Mayor Rob Burton and 14 councillors, as the Town's Mayor and Council page lists them in the table above. Ward 5's Town Councillor seat became vacant when Councillor Marc Grant died in July 2026, and Council appointed Jamie Bay to it on 8 September 2026 for the rest of the term, because the Municipal Act requires a vacancy more than 90 days before a regular election to be filled.
These names apply until the new term begins on 15 November 2026. The Town Clerk's results show who was elected on 26 October; the Town's Mayor and Council page will list the new Council.
As of 1 January 2026 and excluding benefits, the Town lists the Mayor at $156,762 and a Town Councillor at $62,414. For a Town and Regional Councillor it gives a two-part figure of $59,762 plus $62,414. Each member also has a discretionary community outreach and professional development account of up to $9,000 a year, and the Mayor's is $33,700. The Town posts those expenses quarterly.
The Town says remuneration rates may be revised before 1 December 2026.
The Town of Oakville runs more than 90 local services, including libraries, fire protection, recreation, parks, local roads, local transit, planning and zoning, by-law enforcement and property tax collection. Halton Region runs police, paramedics, water and wastewater, waste collection, public health, housing and social services, regional planning and regional roads.
Municipalities can only do what the Province authorizes, and a municipal by-law cannot override a conflicting provincial law. School boards, health units, library boards, police services boards and conservation authorities are separate bodies with their own governing legislation, and some operate independently of council. Oakville voters elect school board trustees on the same ballot, but trustees do not sit on Town Council.
The Province's guide for councillors is general and older than the 2026 changes to regional government.
The Town says Council sets policy direction, authorizes revenues and expenditures for municipal services, oversees the business of the Town and reviews land use and development issues. Council gives direction to staff only through by-laws and resolutions, and individual councillors can ask staff for information but cannot direct them. The Mayor is head of Council and chief executive officer, and holds the Province's strong-mayor powers, including proposing the budget, which is subject to Council amendments and a Mayoral veto and Council override process.
The Committee of Adjustment, which decides minor variances, is independent of Council and Council is not involved in its decisions.
About 43 cents of each dollar goes to the Town, 39 cents to Halton Region and 18 cents to education, per the Town's budget basics page. The Town's December 2025 budget release rounds the 2026 split to about 44 cents, 38 cents and 18 cents. The Town collects the whole bill on behalf of all three.
The two Town pages differ by a cent for the Town and Region shares. The split changes with each year's budgets.
Council adopted the 2026 budget unanimously on 15 December 2025 with a 1.96 per cent overall tax increase, about $16.33 for every $100,000 of assessment, and a new stormwater fee. The October 2025 draft budget totalled $803.1 million: $462.0 million operating and $341.1 million capital. The largest capital items were the new Central Library ($70.6 million) and land for a Trafalgar Urban Core South community centre ($38.0 million).
The totals are from the draft. Budget Committee later cut the Town's operating budget by over $12 million to move stormwater costs off the property tax levy, and the Town's adoption release does not restate the final totals.
The Town's published schedule for the 2026 budget shows the sequence. Staff presented a draft to Budget Committee in October 2025, with public delegations on 11 and 13 November. Budget Committee sent recommendations to the Mayor on 27 November, the Mayor tabled a proposed budget on 4 December, residents could delegate on it on 11 December, and Council considered it on 15 December.
The 2027 budget is the first after this election. The Town says its timeline is designed to give the newly elected Council input before the budget is finalized, with public input before Council considers it in early 2027.
Council meets as Town Council and as Planning and Development Council, where public hearings on development applications such as zoning and Official Plan amendments are heard as Public Hearing Items. Budget Committee reviews the draft budget each fall. The Committee of Adjustment decides minor variances and land severances. Heritage Oakville Advisory Committee reviews applications for heritage properties, and there are other volunteer advisory committees and boards, including the Accessibility Advisory Committee.
The Town is recruiting volunteers for advisory committees and boards for the 2026-2030 term; applications are due by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, 20 November 2026.
On the Town's Agendas and Meetings page, which embeds the calendar of upcoming meetings and links to the eSCRIBE meeting portal, where each meeting's agenda and supporting material are posted. Agendas and minutes are available from 2010 to the present; for earlier years, contact the Clerk. Council minutes from 1931 to 2003 are archived separately. The Town's Procedure By-law governs the calling, place, proceedings and public notice of Council and committee meetings.
Meetings can be added, moved or cancelled, so check the calendar rather than a summary. Declarations of conflict of interest by members are kept in a public registry on the Town's website.
Council meetings are live-streamed on the Town's Live Stream page, and the stream starts about five minutes before the meeting. All Town video is hosted on the Town's YouTube channel. Council meeting videos stay available for the current term and one previous term; for earlier video, contact the Clerk's department at 905-815-6015 or townclerk@oakville.ca.
Complete the Town Clerk's online Delegation Request Form by noon on the day of a meeting that starts after 6 p.m., or by noon on the last business day before a meeting that starts before 6 p.m. Written comments go to townclerk@oakville.ca with the same deadlines, naming the meeting date and agenda item number. PowerPoint presentations are due to the Clerk by noon on the day of the meeting. Registered delegates can take part in person or, where offered, electronically.
Registration is not required for statutory public meetings on development applications, though the Town encourages it. The Town warns that someone who does not speak or write to Council before a decision on an Official Plan amendment, zoning by-law amendment or plan of subdivision may lose the right to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal. To speak at a Committee of Adjustment hearing, email coarequests@oakville.ca.
Council gives direction through by-laws and resolutions, and staff carry out what Council or the Mayor decides. Meetings run under the Procedure By-law. A development application shows the path: it goes to a statutory public meeting at Planning and Development Council, where residents can speak or write, and Council decides after the hearing. For example, Council adopted By-law 2026-088, amending residential zoning, at the 15 June 2026 Planning and Development Council meeting.
The Town's meetings pages summarize the Procedure By-law but do not publish a step-by-step flowchart. The by-law's full text controls.
Direction Council has given staff comes through resolutions, and staff are expected to carry it out under the Chief Administrative Officer. Council keeps a Council Tracking List of those directions and their status, which is posted in the Council information package on eSCRIBE, and OakvilleIQ summarizes the October 2026 edition.
The Tracking List itself is published on the Town's eSCRIBE portal rather than on oakville.ca, so this guide relies on OakvilleIQ's reading of the October edition. The wording of each direction is in the Council minutes.
Email council@oakville.ca to reach all of Council, or write to the Mayor at mayor@oakville.ca or 905-845-6601. Each member's phone number and email address are on the Town's Mayor and Council page, and the In My Neighbourhood tool shows your ward's councillors. The Town notes that members' social media accounts and personal websites express personal views and are not necessarily those of the Town.
A complaint that a member of Council breached the Code of Conduct or the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act goes to the Town's Integrity Commissioner, using the forms on the Town's page; Town staff will not forward it. Complaints about Town staff or about the administration of Town services go to the Ombudsman of Ontario, but only after you have tried to resolve the issue with the department concerned. Town staff cannot forward Ombudsman complaints and anonymous complaints are not accepted.
Town of Oakville
In My NeighbourhoodTown of Oakville
Ward boundary by-lawHalton Region
Halton Regional Council (2023-2026)Halton Region
Appointment of Halton Regional Chair for 2026-2030Town of Oakville
The unofficial results are in for the 2026 Municipal ElectionTown of Oakville
Roles and remunerationTown of Oakville
Budget basicsGovernment of Ontario
The Ontario municipal councillor's guide: municipal governmentTown of Oakville
Mayor and CouncilTown of Oakville
Oakville's Draft 2026 Town Budget now availableTown of Oakville
Delegations and presentationsTown of Oakville
Agendas and meetingsTown of Oakville
Live streamTown of Oakville
Zoning By-law 2014-014Town of Oakville
Council Staff Relations PolicyTown of Oakville
Integrity CommissionerElsewhere in Halton
Oakville's Town and Regional Councillors sit on Halton Regional Council with their counterparts from Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills. Each of those councils has its own IQ edition.