Ayala was elected to represent
Honoré-Mercier in the
2011 Canadian federal election. In the 2015 federal election, Pablo Rodriguez defeated Ayala in a rematch. Ayala ran in the
2018 Quebec general election in
Rosemont for the provincial NDP but lost by a large margin. Ayala contested the riding of
Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel in the
2019 federal election but lost. She again contested Honoré—Mercier at the snap
2021 election but finished fourth and her opponent for the third time, Rodriguez, easily won re-election in a landslide. She ran in the
2021 Montreal municipal election as a
Mouvement Montréal candidate for the city council seat of Saint-Leonard Est. She came in third place with around 12% of the vote.
Electoral record Federal Provincial ==Municipal==