Stephen Holyday

Stephen Holyday is a Canadian politician who has served on Toronto City Council since 2014 and currently represents Ward 2 Etobicoke Centre. He was first elected in the old Ward 3 Etobicoke Centre during the 2014 municipal election.

Background Holyday was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is the son of Doug Holyday, who was the previous ward councilor, Mayor of Etobicoke, and briefly a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He and his wife Margaret have three children.

He graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Science. From 1999 to 2014, he was a manager at the provincial Ministry of Energy.

Politics Holyday is a fiscal conservative. He describes himself as taking "a tough stance against congestion causing initiatives", including the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and the King Street Transit Priority Corridor. He has also been described as one of "three Toronto councillors hopelessly exacerbating the housing crisis" by More Neighbours Toronto.

Holyday is often an outlier among city councillors, and has been the only dissenting vote on dozens of council votes.

He endorsed Mark Saunders in the 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election.

Election results

2022 Toronto election, Ward 2 Stephen Holyday (X) 18,559 72.28 Thomas Yanuziello 2,653 10.33 Catherine Habus 2,218 9.03 Maryam Hashimi 1,591 6.20 Sam Raufi 557 2.17 Both Holyday and John Campbell were incumbents in the 2018 Toronto election because Ward 2 and Ward 3 were merged into a single ward. 2018 Toronto election, Ward 2 Candidate Votes %Stephen Holyday 14,627 38.58% John Campbell 13,441 35.45% Angelo Carnevale 5,735 15.13%Erica Kelly 3,854 10.16% Bill Boersma 258 .68%Total 22,119 100%

2014 Toronto election, Ward 3 Candidate Votes %Stephen Holyday 8,086 36.557% Annette Hutcheon 5,135 23.215% John Moskalyk 2,701 12.211%George Bauk 1,611 7.283% Dean French 1,399 6.325%Greg Comeau 1,100 4.973% Peter Fenech 1,025 4.634%Roberto Alvarez 552 2.496%Paola Bauer 313 1.415%Frank D'Urzo 197 0.891%Total 22,119 100%