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Ward 14

South London: Summerside · south of 401 · Pond Mills (London's largest ward by land area)

ALL-CANDIDATE MEETING
Thursday, September 17, 2026 · 7:00-8:00pm
Sir Wilfred Laurier SS (450 Millbank Dr.)
Urban League of London ↗Organized by a third party, not London Decides. Dates and locations can change.
ON THE BALLOTBHATTIKINGLEHMANSINGH
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THE SHORT VERSION

Your ward at a glance

Ward 14 is an open seat: two-term incumbent Steven Hillier isn't running again, and four candidates are on the register. Nominations closed August 21, 2026; the City certified the list on August 24. Steven Hillier won his second term in 2022. The redrawn ward is by far London's largest by area, mostly south of the 401. Check whether it now includes you.

One candidate carries a prior election record. Sarah Lehman ran for Ward 14 council in 2022, under the old boundaries: the certified result was Steven Hillier 1,766 votes (45.99%), Sarah Lehman 1,538 votes (40.05%), and Danalynn Williams 536 votes (13.96%), out of 3,988 ballots cast. Ward 14 has been substantially redrawn since that election.

The rest of the field, in alphabetical order: Ubaid Bhatti, Jason King, and Gurinder Pal Singh.

THE FIELD

Who's running

Listed alphabetically. Identical treatment for every candidate. That's the deal.

BHATTIKINGLEHMANSINGH

Ubaid Bhatti

Our questionnaire ◌ GOES OUT AFTER AUG 24

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

Jason King

Our questionnaire ◌ GOES OUT AFTER AUG 24

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

Sarah Lehman

Ran for Ward 14 council in 2022: 1,538 votes (40.05%), per the City's certified results.

Our questionnaire ◌ GOES OUT AFTER AUG 24

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

Gurinder Pal Singh

Our questionnaire ◌ GOES OUT AFTER AUG 24

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

No endorsements · Same rules for every candidate · Sources linked · Answers published word for word · How we research →

WHAT'S AT STAKE

What Ward 14 is wrestling with

Honestly told: the situation, the numbers, and what to ask the people who want your vote.

■ CITY DECIDES

Getting a bus south of the 401

Both candidates now name southeast transit gaps. Sarah Lehman's campaign, per CBC coverage, centres on better transit and other services for the southeast ward, including how the area's businesses are served by transit. Jason King's platform says only one bus route serves Summerside, and proposes a new express route to the Veterans Memorial industrial park, which he says the Mobility Master Plan leaves without transit service.

Put them on the record

What bus service south of the 401 would you push for in the next LTC budget?

■ CITY DECIDES

Property taxes and city spending

Jason King's campaign centres on opposing "blanket property tax increases," framing them as inflationary and a burden on both renters and owners, and on reducing city spending growth; his site characterizes the current multi-year budget as a 24.3% cumulative increase. That is the campaign's own multi-year characterization and remains independently unverified. The city's approved single-year number for 2026 is below, as sourced context: it is a different measure, so it neither confirms nor refutes the 24.3% figure.

The honest numbers ▾

Council adopted the 2026 budget on November 26, 2025 with a 3.4% property tax increase. On the average home (assessed at $252,000) that is about $130 more in property tax, plus about $12 for water and about $18 for wastewater, roughly $160 in total. The 2027 figure of 4.7% is a forecast, not adopted. Reporting cites both 3.6% and 3.4% because they are different stages of the same budget: the Mayor's October 27, 2025 update was 3.6%, Budget Committee trimmed it to 3.4% on November 20, and council adopted that on November 26. 3.4% is the approved number. All of this is a single-year rate; the campaign's 24.3% is a cumulative multi-year characterization, so the two are not comparable and neither settles the other. CTV News London (Nov. 26, 2025) ↗

Put them on the record

What tax increase, if any, is acceptable to you over the next term, and what would you cut or defer to hit it?

■ CITY DECIDES

Growth in the rural south

The boundary review, driven by London's growth, pulled rural areas once split across three wards into one to rebalance populations while keeping rural communities together, so managing growth in the rural south is likely to be a live issue for the new Ward 14. King's platform touches it from two angles: rezoning industrial land near Bradley/Highbury for retail, and protecting the ward's Environmentally Significant Areas. Lehman points to "so many new communities being built in Ward 14" (per CBC).

Put them on the record

Where exactly should development stop south of the 401?

■ CITY DECIDES

One confirmed safety incident, and no ward-level trend data

Until now this file had no ward-specific safety finding at all, only citywide backdrop. There is now one: in July 2026 London police confirmed a targeted shooting at a home in the ward's Pond Mills area. It is a single incident. It is listed here because it is dated, police-confirmed and inside this ward's geography, not because it shows anything about whether the ward is safe or getting less safe. Nothing below supports the claim that crime in Ward 14 is rising.

The honest numbers ▾

Just before 4 a.m. on July 14, 2026, a shot was fired at a home on Julie Crescent, near Deveron Crescent and Pond Mills Road. A bullet hole was found in the garage door. No injuries were reported. Police described the shooting as targeted, said several people were inside and outside the home at the time, and said the suspect was still at large as of the July 16, 2026 report. On context: London police publish no ward-level crime trend data, so there is no honest way to say from this incident whether crime in Ward 14 is up, down or flat. The nearest measured figures are citywide, not ward-level: Statistics Canada puts the London CMA Crime Severity Index at 66.0 in 2025, up 8% from 2024 in its first rise since 2021, but still 12% below 2019, with violent crime severity at 79.6, about 24% above 2019. CBC News (July 16, 2026) ↗

Put them on the record

What would you actually do on community safety in this ward, and how would you tell whether it worked?

□ SHARED: CITY + PROVINCE

The big three: homelessness, safety, roads

A CBC-reported survey found London voters citywide rank homelessness, drugs and roads as top election issues heading into 2026. This is citywide backdrop, not a measured Ward 14 finding.

Put them on the record

Which citywide issue matters most south of the 401, and what would you actually vote for on it?

YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER

Change can start now, at any point

The ballot is one tool, not the only one. Between elections, the people who show up are the ones who get heard, and you can start today, not next fall.

  • Email or call your councillor. Every office lists a phone number and address, and a single resident's message still lands. City of London ↗
  • Speak at a committee. Any resident can register as a delegation and take five minutes to address a Standing Committee on an item that's on its agenda. City of London ↗
  • Read the record. Agendas, staff reports, and every recorded vote are posted publicly on the city's meeting portal. City meetings ↗

None of it waits four years. The people already in the room are the ones who asked to be.

DON'T STOP AT ONE RACE

Also on your ballot

Before you go

The rest is showing up

You’ve read the ward. Ward races here can come down to a few hundred ballots, sometimes fewer. In a race that close, your vote is one of the ones that decides it. You don’t need to know everything. You just need to show up, informed.

BEFORE OCT 26

How to vote in Ward 14

ADVANCE
Oct 1
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Oct 3
ADVANCE
Oct 5–10
ELECTION DAY
Oct 26 · 10 am – 8 pm

You’ll need ID with your name and address. Full voting guide: where, what to bring, who can vote →

WHAT WE COULDN’T CONFIRM YET ▾
  • The new Ward 14 boundary is corroborated but not mapped street-by-street: CBC (May 1, 2026) describes it as "by far London's largest ward by area," covering the city's southeast corner with "much of it south of Hwy. 401," consistent with the councillor-site summary from the July 2 pass. Open the City's interactive ward map or the underlying council report to confirm exact edges and determine what moved out of old Ward 14 (e.g., whether White Oaks stays or moves elsewhere).
  • The old-vs-new Ward 14 comparison is an inference from consistent but separate sources (old ward = White Oaks/Glanworth; new ward = southeast corner south of the 401), not a confirmed before/after map comparison.
  • Nominations closed August 21, 2026, and the City certified the final candidate list on August 24, 2026.
  • The claim that only one bus route serves Summerside, and the proposed express route to the Veterans Memorial industrial park, are a candidate's framing, not independently reported findings, and were not checked against London Transit's route maps or the Mobility Master Plan text. The candidate is left unnamed here because issue cards on this site are shared ground rather than campaign space.
  • A candidate's platform touches the Bradley Avenue Extension area. The City's own page for that project confirms the funded work runs Wharncliffe Road South to Jalna Boulevard only, with no funded widening east of Highbury Avenue. The candidate is left unnamed here because issue cards on this site are shared ground rather than campaign space.
  • RESOLVED August 2, 2026: the ward now has one dated, sourced, ward-level safety finding, where before it had only citywide backdrop. A targeted shooting at a home on Julie Crescent (near Deveron Crescent and Pond Mills Road) just before 4 a.m. on July 14, 2026 left a bullet hole in a garage door with no injuries reported, per London police via CBC.
  • Still open, and important to the item above: London police publish no ward-level crime trend data. One incident cannot establish whether crime in Ward 14 is rising, falling or flat, and this file does not claim that it does. The only measured context available is the citywide Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index for the London CMA, which is a metro-level figure and cannot be broken down to this ward.
  • RESOLVED August 2, 2026 on the tax figures: the 3.6% vs 3.4% split in 2026 reporting is a sequencing artefact, not a contradiction. 3.6% was the Mayor's October 27, 2025 update; Budget Committee trimmed it to 3.4% on November 20 and council adopted that on November 26, 2025. 3.4% is the approved single-year figure, about $160 on the average household once water and wastewater increases are counted. This is still a different metric from a cumulative multi-year figure.