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How Toronto Voted For Mayor
Which wards voted for which mayoral candidate. Map by Marc Lostracco/Torontoist.
The City of Toronto has released their full, official election results. Despite Rob Ford’s election night assertion that Toronto is united, not divided, the voting statistics suggest a different, and stark, picture: downtown wards overwhelmingly backed George Smitherman, and suburban wards overwhelmingly backed Rob Ford. [: A map showing how strong each ward’s winning candidate’s support was is below. …as is a version of the map above that’s optimized for colourblind readers.]
Here’s the way the vote for mayor went in each of the city’s forty-four wards:
Ward 1, Etobicoke North
Rob Ford: 9,435 (69.1%)
George Smitherman: 2,131 (15.6%)
Joe Pantalone: 742 (5.4%)
Total votes: 13,652
Ward 2, Etobicoke North
Rob Ford: 14,325 (79.6%)
George Smitherman: 2,098 (11.7%)
Joe Pantalone: 864 (4.8%)
Total votes: 17,996
Ward 3, Etobicoke Centre
Rob Ford: 12,913 (65.2%)
George Smitherman: 4,704 (23.7%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,563 (7.9%)
Total votes: 19,812
Ward 4, Etobicoke Centre
Rob Ford: 14,573 (68.1%)
George Smitherman: 4,728 (22.1%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,457 (6.8%)
Total votes: 21,415
Ward 5, Etobicoke-Lakeshore
Rob Ford: 13,789 (56.4%)
George Smitherman: 7,673 (31.4%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,170 (8.9%)
Total votes: 24,452
Ward 6, Etobicoke-Lakeshore
Rob Ford: 11,915 (57.3%)
George Smitherman: 5,894 (28.4%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,110 (10.2%)
Total votes: 20,785
Ward 7, York West
Rob Ford: 7,041 (57.7%)
George Smitherman: 2,233 (18.3%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,640 (13.4%)
Total votes: 12,206
Ward 8, York West
Rob Ford: 5,303 (47.6%)
George Smitherman: 2,509 (22.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,439 (12.9%)
Total votes: 11,149
Ward 9, York Centre
Rob Ford: 7,045 (57.1%)
George Smitherman: 2,155 (17.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,948 (15.8%)
Total votes: 1,2343
Ward 10, York Centre
Rob Ford: 9,772 (57.7%)
George Smitherman: 4,458 (26.3%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,494 (8.8%)
Total votes: 16,944
Ward 11, York South-Weston
Rob Ford: 9,619 (59.7%)
George Smitherman: 3,511 (21.8%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,920 (11.9%)
Total votes: 16,112
Ward 12, York South-Weston
Rob Ford: 7,536 (55.7%)
George Smitherman: 2,747 (20.3%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,979 (14.6%)
Total votes: 13,538
Ward 13, Parkdale-High Park
Rob Ford: 7,679 (34.7%)
George Smitherman: 10,232 (46.2%)
Joe Pantalone: 3,599 (16.3%)
Total votes: 22,127
Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park
Rob Ford: 4,788 (27.6%)
George Smitherman: 7,949 (45.9%)
Joe Pantalone: 3,882 (22.4%)
Total votes: 17,336
Ward 15, Eglinton-Lawrence
Rob Ford: 8,928 (52.8%)
George Smitherman: 4,282 (25.3%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,388 (14.1%)
Total votes: 16,897
Ward 16, Eglinton-Lawrence
Rob Ford: 8,074 (40.8%)
George Smitherman: 9,505 (50.0%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,772 (8.9%)
Total votes: 19,810
Ward 17, Davenport
Rob Ford: 6,006 (41.7%)
George Smitherman: 4,407 (30.6%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,975 (20.7%)
Total votes: 14,399
Ward 18, Davenport
Rob Ford: 3,973 (27.5%)
George Smitherman: 5,697 (39.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 3,756 (26.0%)
Total votes: 14,422
Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina
Rob Ford: 4,630 (22.2%)
George Smitherman: 9,732 (46.6%)
Joe Pantalone: 5,801 (27.8%)
Total votes: 20,882
Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina
Rob Ford: 5,476 (23.2%)
George Smitherman: 13,151 (55.7%)
Joe Pantalone: 4,129 (17.5%)
Total votes: 23,614
Ward 21, St. Paul’s
Rob Ford: 5,818 (32.2%)
George Smitherman: 8,979 (49.7%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,602 (14.4%)
Total votes: 18,056
Ward 22, St. Paul’s
Rob Ford: 7,903 (32.3%)
George Smitherman: 13,411 (54.8%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,443 (10.0%)
Total votes: 24,454
Ward 23, Willowdale
Rob Ford: 10,959 (49.2%)
George Smitherman: 8,055 (36.2%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,181 (9.8%)
Total votes: 22,264
Ward 24, Willowdale
Rob Ford: 9,670 (52.6%)
George Smitherman: 6,181 (33.6%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,565 (8.5%)
Total votes: 18,391
Ward 25, Don Valley West
Rob Ford: 9,865 (46.4%)
George Smitherman: 9,138 (43.0%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,639 (7.7%)
Total votes: 21,241
Ward 26, Don Valley West
Rob Ford: 8,322 (41.8%)
George Smitherman: 8,272 (41.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,647 (8.3%)
Total votes: 19,915
Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Rob Ford: 7,068 (25.1%)
George Smitherman: 17,335 (61.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,909 (10.3%)
Total votes: 28,176
Ward 28, Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Rob Ford: 4,937 (23.7%)
George Smitherman: 12,513 (60.1%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,414 (11.6%)
Total votes: 20,819
Ward 29, Toronto-Danforth
Rob Ford: 6,493 (36.3%)
George Smitherman: 7,658 (42.8%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,863 (16.0%)
Total votes: 17,899
Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth
Rob Ford: 5,106 (25.8%)
George Smitherman: 10,492 (53.0%)
Joe Pantalone: 3,341 (16.9%)
Total votes: 19,797
Ward 31, Beaches-East York
Rob Ford: 7,942 (43.7%)
George Smitherman: 6,459 (35.6%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,889 (15.9%)
Total votes: 18,165
Ward 32, Beaches-East York
Rob Ford: 7,639 (32.4%)
George Smitherman: 11,812 (50.1%)
Joe Pantalone: 3,440 (14.6%)
Total votes: 23,576
Ward 33, Don Valley East
Rob Ford: 7,525 (52.3%)
George Smitherman: 4,465 (31.0%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,435 (10.0%)
Total votes: 14,388
Ward 34, Don Valley East
Rob Ford: 8,581 (51.6%)
George Smitherman: 5,403 (32.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,669 (10.0%)
Total votes: 16,626
Ward 35, Scarborough Southwest
Rob Ford: 9,390 (55.8%)
George Smitherman: 4,288 (25.5%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,880 (11.2%)
Total votes: 16,835
Ward 36, Scarborough Southwest
Rob Ford: 9,606 (52.8%)
George Smitherman: 5,682 (31.2%)
Joe Pantalone: 2,096 (11.5%)
Total votes: 18,201
Ward 37, Scarborough Centre
Rob Ford: 10,809 (58.3%)
George Smitherman: 4,892 (26.4%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,695 (9.1%)
Total votes: 18,548
Ward 38, Scarborough Centre
Rob Ford: 10,509 (57.4%)
George Smitherman: 5,107 (27.9%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,427 (7.8%)
Total votes: 18,297
Ward 39, Scarborough-Agincourt
Rob Ford: 9,519 (63.7%)
George Smitherman: 3,438 (23.0%)
Joe Pantalone: 853 (5.7%)
Total votes: 14,954
Ward 40, Scarborough-Agincourt
Rob Ford: 10,094 (59.1%)
George Smitherman: 4,208 (24.6%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,410 (8.3%)
Total votes: 17,086
Ward 41, Scarborough-Rouge River
Rob Ford: 11,382 (62.0%)
George Smitherman: 4,638 (25.3%)
Joe Pantalone: 949 (5.2%)
Total votes: 18,363
Ward 42, Scarborough-Rouge River
Rob Ford: 10,071 (49.2%)
George Smitherman: 6,798 (33.2%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,259 (6.1%)
Total votes: 20,474
Ward 43, Scarborough East
Rob Ford: 8,818 (55.7%)
George Smitherman: 4,557 (33.2%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,332 (6.1%)
Total votes: 15,818
Ward 44, Scarborough East
Rob Ford: 12,660 (58.1%)
George Smitherman: 6,262 (28.8%)
Joe Pantalone: 1,916 (8.8%)
Total votes: 21,780
: And by request, here’s a map showing how heavy the support was for the winning mayoral candidate in each ward. The lighter the shade of a ward, the closer the race was between Rob Ford and George Smitherman:
Map by Marc Lostracco/Torontoist.
There are plenty more maps being shared in the comments below—and Patrick Cain has been racing with us to put together some maps of his own, based on the same data.
: Also by request, a version of our lead ward map made for those who might be colourblind:
Map by Marc Lostracco/Torontoist.
Additional number-crunching by Michael Chrisman, Emily Shepard, and Harry Choi.