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Alvin Tedjo
Alvin Tedjo c.2024
Mississauga City Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office 2022
Preceded by	Karen Ras
Constituency	Ward 2 (Clarkson and Lorne Park)
Personal details
Party	Liberal (operate in non-partisan setting as city councillor)

Alvin Tedjo is a Canadian politician based in Mississauga, Ontario. He currently serves on the Mississauga City Council as the councillor for Ward 2, and serves ex officio on the Peel Regional Council. He was the runner-up in the 2024 Mississauga mayoral by-election, and is registered to contest the Mississauga mayoralty again in the 2026 municipal election.

Private life

Tedjo was born to parents who immigrated from Indonesia and settled in Mississauga when Tedjo was four years old. He attended Father Michael Goetz Secondary School, and was a budding politician there, having served as its students’ council president for two years.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and obtained a master degree from Harvard University.

Tedjo and his wife have three children.

Political career

As ministerial aide and provincial electoral candidate

Following the completion of undergraduate studies, Tedjo worked for the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), a student advocacy organization in which the Alma Mater Society of Queen's University was a member. Like many of his OUSA peers, Tedjo made the jump to Queen’s Park and worked as a senior aide to four successive higher education ministers – Glen Murray, John Milloy, Brad Duguid and Reza Moridi. He later worked for Sheridan College and Toronto Metropolitan University in various public affairs roles.

During the 2018 Ontario general election, Tedjo carried the Ontario Liberal banner in the electoral district of Oakville North—Burlington. Since all Mississauga seats were held by Liberals incumbents prior to that election, he accepted the nomination in Oakville North—Burlington, a new district and the only one in Halton or Peel region without a Liberal incumbent. The 2018 election, the most disastrous campaign for the Liberals in Ontario history, saw no Liberal returned west of Toronto. Locally, the NDP candidate pushed Tedjo to a third place finish by nine votes out of more than fifty thousand.

Tedjo was a contestant at the 2020 Ontario Liberal leadership convention. His campaign was endorsed by the late Walt Elliot, a Peterson era MPP who represented the district Tedjo contested in 2018, and by Progressive Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, along with a number of municipal leaders. Campaigning on a platform for basic income and inclusive growth, Tedjo was noted for sharing his allotted speaking time at the convention with a robot to highlight various key rationales for his platform. Former cabinet minister Steven Del Duca won that contest on the first ballot, during which Tedjo placed fifth in a field of six.

Further information: 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election and 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership endorsements § Alvin Tedjo

Mississauga City Council

Tedjo secured his first electoral victory for public office during the 2022 municipal election. The seat for Ward 2, which covers the neighborhood of Clarkson and Lorne Park was an open seat as incumbent councillor Karen Ras had resigned earlier in the year after enduring repeated workplace harassment and intimidation by another councillor. In a field of eight that included Silvia Gualtieri, later elected MPP for nearby Mississauga East-Cooksville in 2025, Tedjo secured victory with 41% of the votes.

In June 2023, Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie launched her bid for the Ontario Liberal leadership, and resigned as mayor in January 2024 upon being elected as leader. Tedjo joined three other council colleagues – Dipika Damerla, Stephen Dasko, and winner Carolyn Parrish – and contested the mayoral by-election. The contest provided a unique opportunity for sitting councillors to contest the mayoralty without having to relinquish their council seats should they not be successful. His campaign was noted for tackling housing density, higher order public transit and other urban issues often sidestepped by suburban municipal politicians. He was endorsed by three of his council peers (out of seven who were not candidates) and two trustees (out of six) of the Peel District School Board. He placed second with 25% of the votes against 31% secured by winner Parrish.

Further information: 2024 Mississauga mayoral by-election

Tejdo declared his intention to seek the mayoral again in the 2026 municipal election. He registered his candidacy on the first day nomination was open.

Electoral Record

2018 Ontario provincial election

Oakville North—Burlington

This section is an excerpt from Oakville North—Burlington (provincial electoral district) § 2018.[edit]

2018 Ontario general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Effie Triantafilopoulos	25,691	46.41	+9.60	$63,206
	New Democratic	Saima Zaidi	13,496	24.38	+12.64	$4,724
	Liberal	Alvin Tedjo	13,487	24.37	–21.77	$29,863
	Green	Marianne Workman	2,052	3.71	+0.33	$81
	Libertarian	Charles Zach	403	0.73	N/A	none listed
	Trillium	Frank De Luca	222	0.40	N/A	none listed
Total valid votes			55,351	99.39
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			342	0.61
Turnout			55,693	60.20
Eligible voters			92,512
	Progressive Conservative notional gain from Liberal		Swing		–1.52

2020 Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Contest

This section is an excerpt from 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election § Convention results.[edit]

Candidate	Delegate Elected		First (final) ballot
Steven Del Duca	1,172	56.2%	1,258	58.8%
Michael Coteau	370	17.8%	363	16.9%
Kate Graham	273	13.1%	299	13.9%
Mitzie Hunter	130	6.2%	122	5.7%
Alvin Tedjo	72	3.4%	74	3.5%
Brenda Hollingsworth	25	1.2%	24	1.1%
Independent	42	2.0%
Total	2084		2140

There was one spoiled ballot.

2022 Mississauga municipal election

Ward 2 Councilor

Candidate	Vote	%
Alvin Tedjo	3,733	41.12
Sue Shanly	2,559	28.19
Silvia Gualtieri	1,524	16.79
Chris Cunningham	499	5.50
Ayushe Sharman	464	5.11
Syed Jaffery	148	1.63
Gulraiz Bajwa	131	1.44
Reead Rahamut	20	0.22
Total	9,078

2024 Mississauga mayoral by-election

2024 Mississauga mayoral by-election, June 10, 2024 Resignation of Bonnie Crombie
Candidate		Popular vote			Expenditures
		Votes	%	±%
	Carolyn Parrish	43,494	31.06	–	$524,816.30
	Alvin Tedjo	35,005	25.00	–	$300,278,25
	Dipika Damerla	27,119	19.37	–	$576,469.83
	Stephen Dasko	22,408	16.00	–	$291,998.83
	David Shaw	2,843	2.03	-6.80	$4,511.51
	Brian Crombie	2,242	1.60	–	$9,888.92
	Frank Fang	1,694	1.21	–	$17,269.65
	George Tavares	962	0.69	-4.63	$163.42
	Xiao Hua Gong	598	0.43	–	$45,166.50
	Diya Atassi	545	0.39	–	$8,522.66
	Zulfiqar Ali	528	0.38	–	$971.23
	Mike Matulewicz	424	0.30	–	none listed
	Sinisa Mandrapa	417	0.30	–	$25,534.00
	Sara Iqbal	359	0.26	–	$0.00
	Jamie Dookie	302	0.22	–	$846.00
	Nathalie Xian Yi Yan	297	0.21	–	$1,200.00
	Mitchell MacEachern	238	0.17	–	$0.00
	Winston Harding	206	0.15	–	$1,575.00
	Mohsin Khan	170	0.12	–	$0.00
	Syed Jaffery	169	0.12	–	$8,116.00
Total valid votes		140,020	99.89
Rejected, unmarked and declined		161	0.11
Turnout		140,181	25.67	+3.83
Eligible voters		545,512
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: City of Mississauga

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