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Carolyn Parrish

Carolyn Parrish

Carolyn Parrish (born 1946) is a Canadian politician and former teacher, sitting as an independent.

Born
1946 (80 years), Toronto
Party
Independent
Office
Mayor of Mississauga 2024–
Education
St. Michael's College, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Website
carolynparrish.ca

27.3%Vote share · Result · Mississauga Mayoral Election Winner 2026

Voting day
(yesterday)

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She was a Liberal MP from 1993 to 2006 and a Mississauga councillor for most of the years between 2006 and 2024. She has been Mayor of Mississauga since winning the June 2024 by-election, and is named as seeking re-election in the 2026 Mississauga mayoral election.

Career

Parrish taught at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute and was a Peel Board of Education trustee from 1985 to 1990, chairing it from 1988. She was elected MP for Mississauga ridings in 1993 and was expelled from the Liberal caucus in 2004 after remarks about the United States and a television appearance; she sat as an independent until 2006. She was a Ward 6 councillor from 2006 to 2010, lost the 2011 Ward 5 by-election to Bonnie Crombie, and was Ward 5 councillor from 2014 to 2024. She won the 2024 mayoral by-election and took office on 24 June 2024.

Offices held
  1. Mayor of Mississauga 2024–
  2. Member of the House of Commons of Canada 1993–2006

Source: Wikidata

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia

Photo: JoeyColeman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

Mississauga Mayoral Election Winner 2026

Result

#OutcomeVote share
1Alvin Tedjo39.2%
2Carolyn Parrish27.3%
3Bonnie CrombieCentre22.7%
4Dipika Damerla6.1%
5Frank Fang1.0%
6David Shaw0.8%
7Mike Matulewicz0.6%
8Karam Ahmed0.6%
9Gord Elliott0.5%
10Aamir Bhatti0.3%
11Ana Luisa Vasquez de Espinal0.3%
12Amjad Jilani0.3%
13Mohsin Khan0.2%
14Fadi Naami0.2%

Source: Wikipedia

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