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Alejandra Bravo
Alejandra Bravo
Toronto City Councillor; for Ward 9 Davenport
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; November 15, 2022
Preceded by	Ana Bailão
Personal details
Born	1971 (age 52–53); Chile
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	New Democratic
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Occupation	Politician; community organizer;
Website	www.alejandrabravo.ca

Alejandra Bravo (born 1971) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent Ward 9 Davenport on Toronto City Council following the 2022 municipal election.

Early life and education

Bravo was born in Chile in 1971. She lived in Santiago until 1973, when the 1973 Chilean coup d'état forced her family to Canada.^[1]

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American studies from the University of Toronto,^[2] before attending the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.^[3]

Career

Prior to her election to council, Bravo worked as manager of leadership and learning for the Maytree Foundation,^[2] and as director of leadership and training at the Broadbent Institute.^[4]^[3]

Political career

Early campaigns

Bravo has run in the former Ward 17 Davenport in the 2003 Toronto municipal election,^[5] the 2006 Toronto municipal election^[6] and the 2014 Toronto municipal election,^[7] finishing in second place all three times behind Cesar Palacio. She did not run in the 2010 Toronto municipal election, instead endorsing Jonah Schein as a challenger to Palacio.^[8]

She ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in Davenport in the 2021 Canadian federal election,^[9] losing to Julie Dzerowicz by a 76-vote margin so narrow that it was verified in a judicial recount.^[10]

2022 Toronto election

Ward 9 Councillor Ana Bailão announced that she would not be seeking re-election after serving on council for 12 years, leaving the seat in Davenport open for the 2022 election.^[11] Bravo joined the race on July 5, 2022,^[12] and ran on a platform which included ending exclusionary zoning, building affordable housing, providing stronger tenant protections, improving transit and building more cycling infrastructure.^[13] She received endorsements from the Toronto Star,^[14] the city's largest newspaper and Progress Toronto,^[12] a left-wing advocacy group.

Following the election on October 24, Bravo won the ward with over 70 percent of the vote.^[13]^[15] She took office on November 15, 2022.^[16]

Electoral history

Candidate	Votes	Vote share
2022 Toronto municipal election, Ward 9 Davenport
Alejandra Bravo	17,009	70.72
Grant Gonzales	3,192	13.27
Shaker Jamal	1,414	5.88
Allie Spencer	882	3.67
Steven Leca	675	2.81
Simon Fogel	381	1.58
Jacob Maydansky	207	0.86
Mosea Houghron	151	0.63
Lazare Shorter	139	0.58
Total	24,050	100%
Source: City of Toronto^[17]

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Davenport
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Julie Dzerowicz	19,930	42.1	-1.50	$101,254.58
	New Democratic	Alejandra Bravo	19,854	42.0	+1.20	$102,816.01
	Conservative	Jenny Kalimbet	4,774	10.1	+0.50	$6,403.32
	People's	Tara Dos Remedios	1,499	3.2	+2.30	$3,001.04
	Green	Adrian Currie	1,087	2.3	-2.20	$14,660.32
	Independent	Troy Young	86	0.2		none listed
	Independent	Chai Kalevar	77	0.2		none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,307	–	–	$109,525.37
Total rejected ballots			429
Turnout			47,736
Eligible voters			77,306
Source: Elections Canada^[18]^[19]

Candidate Name	Number of votes	% of votes
2014 Toronto municipal election, Ward 17 Davenport
Cesar Palacio	8,293	46.24
Alejandra Bravo	7,840	43.71
Saeed Selvam	1,404	7.83
George Stevens	398	2.22
Total	17,935	100

Candidate	Votes	%
2006 Toronto municipal election, Ward 17 Davenport
Cesar Palacio (incumbent)	4827	42.3
Alejandra Bravo	4546	39.8
Fred Dominelli	1491	13.1
Cinzia Scalabrini	211	1.9
David Faria	206	1.8
Gustavo Valdez	77	0.7
Wilson Basantes Espinoza	50	0.4

Candidate	Votes	%
2003 Toronto municipal election, Ward 17 Davenport
Cesar Palacio	5,127	44.99
Alejandra Bravo	4,336	38.05
David Senater	940	8.24
Romolo Cimaroli	530	4.65
Nicolo Fortunato	461	4.04