Zee Hamid

In 2010, he ran for the Milton Town Council in ward 8 and beat his opponent by 23.38 points. He was elected again in 2014.

In 2016, he voted to reduce the size of the Milton council by two councillors, rather than increasing it by two.[7] As he was the last person to vote and the vote was equal, his final vote was seen as a tiebreaker vote.

In 2018 he ran for the Halton Regional Council, facing another councillor John Pollard and former Regional Councillor Tony Lambert. Hamid won by getting 54.47% of the total votes against 4 other challengers.[8]

Hamid ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Milton in the 2022 municipal election, losing by fewer than 1,000 votes to long-time incumbent Gordon Krantz.[3]

When Milton MPP Parm Gill resigned from his seat to run Federally, Hamid was tapped to become the Ontario PC candidate.[9] On May 2, 2024, Hamid won 47 per cent of the vote to 38.3 per cent for Ontario Liberal's Naidoo Harris[10] despite polls showing a neck to neck race.[11] He increased the winning margin from 4.32 points in 2022 to 8.79 points in 2024.

Before running as a PC candidate, Hamid had donated $3,508 to the Ontario Liberal Party since 2014, including to former Liberal leader Steven Del Duca's 2020 leadership campaign. He had also run unsuccessfully for the federal Liberal nomination in his riding for the 2015 Canadian federal election.[3]