Your ward.
Your city.
Your call.
The whole election in one honest place: the races, the records, the receipts. All sourced. You decide.
Barely 1 in 4 Londoners turned out in 2022, so the ones who show up decide the whole city. On October 26, be one of them.
Your voting plan
- 1Find your spotElection day is assigned-location only. It’s on your voter card, or at london.voterservices.ca ↗
- 2Bring one documentAnything with your name and address. A utility bill works. Photo ID is not required.
- 3Vote Monday, October 2610 a.m. to 8 p.m. Not on the list? You can be added on the spot.
On every ballot
Three jobs. Three choices. You hire all of them on October 26.
What changed
THE RACE, CITY HALL, AND YOUR BALLOT · NEWEST FIRST
- OCTOBER 26Thank you, LondonThe election is done, and London Decides is just getting started. Thank you to everyone who voted, to every candidate who answered in public, and to everyone who shared this site. Next up: a page for each councillor, promises checked against what council does, and a plain weekly look at City Hall. Elected members who haven't answered the questionnaire are welcome to reach out and fill it in. →
- THE RACEOCTOBER 24Candidate profiles are backCandidate profiles are back for all 14 ward races and the mayor's race. Each ward page, and the mayor page, now puts its candidates side by side, with who they are, their last result, their council record if they have one, how to reach them and where they stand on the race's three biggest issues. Every position has its source underneath. Their London Decides answers and any outside surveys they filled in follow below. On a phone, swipe to move between candidates, and tap a name to hide someone from the comparison. →
- THE RACESEPTEMBER 26Get to know the candidatesWard debate recordings are now linked on each ward's page, each candidate's entry links to the other surveys they answered, and a new page collects every debate, other groups' questionnaires and the City's certified candidate list in one place. →
The hard files
Read one, read none, or come back later. You don't need all of these to vote well.
Hold them accountable
What the job controls, how to check City Hall yourself, and where a decision gets stuck.
The receipts
They've had four years. See what they did with them. Built only from the City's own minutes, public filings, and signed statements. Every row links to the primary document.
Your vote counts for more than you think
In London's 2022 election, only 1 in 4 people voted, a historic low. So about 71,000 people chose the mayor and all 14 councillors for a city of 400,000. That's the real story of low turnout: not that your vote counts for less, but that the small group of neighbours who show up decide for everyone who doesn't. Some ward races here came down to a few dozen ballots. It's the government closest to your life (the roads, the water, the buses, what gets built next door) and the one where showing up matters most. City of London Open Data — Election 2022 Voter Turnout Results ↗
WHY YOUR VOTE IS BIGGER THAN YOU THINK →Who made this
London Decides was created by Sean Dollimore. Watch the Rogers tv segment on London Decides.
Most of us want a better London, even if we picture it differently. Making that happen takes a clearer understanding of how our city works, where decisions are made, and what we can do to influence them. It also takes a willingness to listen to people whose experience of London is different from our own.
I believe meaningful change becomes possible when people find one another and turn shared concerns into work they can do together. That means staying involved beyond election day and following through on the things we want to see improve. My hope is that London Decides helps more of us feel informed enough to take part, and connected enough to keep going.
I still have a lot to learn about this city. Every neighbourhood holds knowledge that a website can only begin to capture, and the people who live there know things I don’t. If something here misses what’s happening on your street, or you’d like to meet up and talk about how we can make London better, I’d welcome the conversation.
hello@londondecides.caSupport this
No donations, no ads, no memberships. This project doesn’t take money. Four things help more:
- Share it
Group chats, Facebook groups, the neighbour who says their vote doesn't matter. That's how this spreads. There's no ad budget; you're it.
- Correct it
Spot an error, a dead link, or something unfair? corrections@londondecides.ca. Corrections are made promptly and noted.
- Nudge your candidates
The same questionnaire goes to every candidate. Answers get published word for word as they come in, and “no response” is public information too. Push yours to be on the record.
- Tell us what's missing
An issue your street cares about that isn't on your ward page? Say so. The best pages here were built from what residents actually raise.