2010 Guelph municipal election

The 2010 Guelph municipal election will be held on October 25, 2010., in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to elect the Mayor of Guelph, Guelph City Council and the Guelph members of the Upper Grand District School Board (Public) and Wellington Catholic District School Board. The election will be one of many races across the province of Ontario.

Map of Guelph's Wards

Mayor

Mayor
Candidates	David Birtwistle	Karen Farbridge	Ray Mitchell	Scott Nightingale
Website	http://www.davidbirtwistle.com/	http://www.farbridgeforguelph.ca/	http://raymitchellformayor.wordpress.com/
Status	Former Councillor	Incumbent
Votes
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Ward 1

Two to be elected representing Ward 1
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Candidate	Bob Bell	Peter Bortolon	Allan Boynton	Sean Farrelly	Jim Furfaro	Eugene Gromczynski	Linda Murphy	Russell Ott	Karolyne Pickett	Gary Walton	Tamara Williams
Website	http://bobbell.ca/		http://www.allanboynton.com	http://www.seanfarrelly.ca/	http://www.jimfurfaro.com/		http://www.lindamurphyward1guelph.com/	http://www.russellott.com			http://tamara-williams.ca/
Status	Incumbent		Elected Councillor - Township of East Garafraxa	Former Ward 2 Councillor	School Trustee	Candidate in the 2006 Election				Former Ward 2 Councillor
Votes
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Ward 2

Two to be elected representing Ward 2
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Candidate	Vicki Beard	Ray Ferraro	Ian Findlay	Paul Mahony	Andy Van Hellemond
Website	http://www.vickibeard.ca/
Status	Incumbent	Former Councillor	Incumbent		Former NHL Referee
Votes
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Ward 3

Two to be elected representing Ward 3
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Candidate	Craig Chamberlain	Mark Enchin	Dimitrios “Jim” Galatianos	June Hofland	Maggie Laidlaw	Missy Tolton
Website	http://www.turningthecurve.com		http://www.votedjg.ca	http://www.juneinoctober.ca	http://www.maggielaidlaw.ca/	http://www.missytolton.com/
Status	Candidate in 2006 Election			Incumbent	Incumbent
Votes
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Ward 4

Two to be elected representing Ward 4
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Candidate	Christina Boumis	Cam Guthrie	Gloria Kovach	Steven Petric	Mike Salisbury
Website	http://www.boumis.ca	http://www.camguthrie.ca	http://www.gloriakovach.com/	http://www.stevenpetric.com	http://www.mikesalisbury.ca/
Status		Candidate in 2006 Election	Incumbent	Candidate in 2003 Election	Incumbent
Votes
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Ward 5

Two to be elected representing Ward 5
Candidate	Lise Burcher	Douglas O’Doherty	Leanne Piper
Website			http://www.leannepiper.ca
Status	Incumbent	Candidate in 2003 Election	Incumbent
Votes
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Ward 6

Two to be elected representing Ward 6
Candidate	Todd Dennis	Susan Ricketts	Karl Wettstein
Website	http://www.votetodd.ca/		http://www.karlwettstein.com/
Status			Incumbent
Votes
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Upper Grand District School Board

Two to be elected representing Wards 1, 5
Candidate	Mark Bailey	Juanita Burnett	Linda Busuttil	John Carpenter
Website	http://www.markbailey.ca/
Status	Incumbent		Incumbent
Votes
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Two to be elected representing Wards 2, 3 and 4
Candidate	Don Griffin	Susan Moziar	Jennifer Waterston
Website
Status	Candidate in 2006 Election	Incumbent	Incumbent
Votes
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One to be elected representing Ward 6 and the Town of Puslinch
Candidate	S. Marty Fairbairn	James J. McClure
Website
Status	Former Trustee
Votes
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Wellington Catholic District School Board

Four to be elected representing the City of Guelph
Candidate	Nancy (Nan) Anderson	Michael Ayotte	Sebastian Dal Bo	Susan G. Dickert	Victoria Dupuis (Sorbara)	Marino Gazzola
Website
Status					Incumbent	Incumbent
Votes
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Conseil Scolaire Public de District du Centre-Sud Ouest

One to be elected representing the Region of Waterloo, and the Counties of Middlesex, Wellington, Perth and Huron
Candidate	Malika Attou	George LeMac	Denis Trudel
Website
Status
Votes
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Conseil Scolaire de District Catholiques Centre-Sud

One to be elected representing the City of Brampton, Town of Caledon, and the Counties of Dufferin and Wellington
Candidate	Tamar Clutterbuck	Tammy Knibbs
Website
Status
Votes
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Timeline

• September 10, 2010 - Nominations close.
• October 25, 2010 - Election Day.

Issues

• Taxes
• Over Spending By Current Council
• Debt Reduction
• Cost Related To 5 Days Of City Shut Down
• Growth Related To Places To Grow
• Wet Plant Costs
• Switching To Garbage Bins vs Bags
• East End Commercial
• W.C Woods ReDevelopment
• Downtown Revitalization
• Economy
• Infrastructure
• Bringing Business To Guelph

See also

Ontario municipal elections, 2010

External links

Preceded by 2006 election

List of Guelph municipal elections

Succeeded by 2014 election