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InvestigationCity Hall · CouncilLast updated · 2026.05

How council actually votes.

Every recorded vote at council and its committees this term, in two views.

Overview shows how often each pair of councillors votes the same way. Contested motionslists every vote that wasn’t unanimous — who voted yes, who voted no, and what the motion actually said. Each row links back to the official meeting minutes.

Every recorded votecouncil + committees867 motions counted
[01.A]

How often each pair votes the same way

26 of 105 pairs shown · ordered by bloc
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KellyKelly (W4)YuleYule (W3)PantazopoulosPantazopoulos (W6)FarkasMayor FarkasClarkClark (W9)DhaliwalDhaliwal (W5)AtkinsonAtkinson (W7)SchmidtSchmidt (W8)WynessWyness (W2)ChabotChabot (W10)JohnstonJohnston (W14)TyersTyers (W1)JamiesonJamieson (W12)WardWard (W11)McLeanMcLean (W13)
Across 25 meetings and 867 motions (284 of them contested). Each dot is a councillor, ordered around the ring by voting bloc; each line is a pair, coloured by how often they voted the same way. Adjust the threshold to see only the tightest ties or the full network.
[01.B]

Voting blocs

Voting blocs

Councillors grouped by how often they vote together. Group labels (A/B/C/D) are deliberately neutral — read the names and decide for yourself what each group has in common.

groups
A8 members
  • W5 · Dhaliwal
  • W7 · Atkinson
  • W6 · Pantazopoulos
  • W3 · Yule
  • W4 · Kelly
  • W8 · Schmidt
  • W9 · Clark
  • mayor · Mayor Farkas
B5 members
  • W13 · McLean
  • W14 · Johnston
  • W11 · Ward
  • W12 · Jamieson
  • W1 · Tyers
C2 members
  • W2 · Wyness
  • W10 · Chabot
agreement within groups
93%n=39

How often councillors in the same group vote the same way, on average.

agreement between groups
87%n=66

How often councillors in different groups vote the same way, on average. The bigger the gap between this number and the one beside it, the more clearly the groups are separated.

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Councillors who consistently vote together are grouped. The groups are labelled A/B/C/D — deliberately neutral. Read the names, decide for yourself what each group has in common.
[01.C]

By committee

Committees include only some councillors — and sometimes public members or commissioners — so each grid below is a different size. Pairs that haven’t both voted on the same motion yet are shown as diagonal stripes.

Audit Committee · 5 meetings · 24 motions · 1 contested
5 of 20 pairs shown · ordered by bloc
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FarkasMayor FarkasWynessWyness (W2)PantazopoulosPantazopoulos (W6)ClarkClark (W9)JamiesonJamieson (W12)KimKimNaickerNaicker