2000 St. Catharines municipal election

2000 St. Catharines municipal election
	The Ward boundaries for the 2000 Election. The Mayor and regional councillors are elected across the city, Councillors in their respective wards.
Mayor before election; Tim Rigby;	Elected mayor ; Tim Rigby;

The St. Catharines municipal election of 2000 was held to elect a mayor and councillors for the city of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Mayor

v t e 2000 St. Catharines municipal election: Mayor
Candidate	Votes	%
(x)Tim Rigby	acclaimed	-

Niagara Regional Council

Template:MunElec |- | align="left" | T. Roy Adams | align="right" | 17,167 | align="right" | 15.18 |- | align="left" | Michael R. Collins | align="right" | 13,890 | align="right" | 12.28 |- | align="left" | Bruce Timms | align="right" | 13,750 | align="right" | 12.16 |- | align="left" | Peter Partington | align="right" | 13,123 | align="right" | 11.61 |- | align="left" | Mark Brickell | align="right" | 13,015 | align="right" | 11.51 |- | align="left" | Brian McMullan | align="right" | 11,571 | align="right" | 10.23 |- | align="left" | Christel Haeck | align="right" | 10,444 | align="right" | 9.24 |- | align="left" | James Wilson | align="right" | 7,670 | align="right" | 6.78 |- | align="left" | Ted Mouradian | align="right" | 6,544 | align="right" | 5.79 |- | align="left" | John E. Kirby | align="right" | 5,900 | align="right" | 5.22 |- bgcolor="#EEEEEE" ! align="left" | Total valid votes ! align="right" | 113,074 ! align="right" | 100.00 |}

Electors could vote for six candidates.
Percentages are determined in relation to the total number of votes.

St. Catharines City Council

Ward 1 - Merriton

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
James Almas	2,589	37.17%
Wendy Patriquin	2,060	29.57%
Jennifer Stevens	1,711	24.56%
George Goff	606	8.70%

Ward 2 - St. Andrew's

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Joseph Kushner	2,802	34.30%
Judy Casselman	2,201	26.94%
Joseph Cosby	1,568	19.19%
Doug Greenaway	977	11.96%
Phil MacKinnon	318	3.89%
Rob Gilmour	303	3.71%

Ward 3 - St. George's

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Greg Washuta	2,491	35.82%
Rondi Craig	2,195	31.56%
Marie Poirier	1,329	19.11%
Doug Hobbs	940	13.52%

Ward 4 - St. Patrick's

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Carol Disher	1,838	30.33%
Ronna Katzman	1,838	30.33%
John A. Davis	1,249	20.61%
Frank Hampson	1,136	18.74%

Carol Disher was elected to council in 1997, 2000 and 2003. She was president of the Niagara Bruce Trail Club in the early 1990s.^[1] She tried to prevent the merger of Hamilton and St. Catharines power utilities in 2004,^[2] and unsuccessfully urged council to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides in January 2006.^[3] She was also a prominent opponent of the Port Dalhousie tower complex purchase.^[4]

Ward 5 - Grantham

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Dawn Dodge	2,873	29.10%
Brian Heit	2,566	25.99%
Brian Dorsey	2,403	24.34%
Clarice West-Hobbs	1,394	14.12%
Dan Antonides	637	6.45%

Ward 6 - Port Dalhousie

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Bruce Williamson	2,592	26.57%
Sue Erskine	2,237	22.93%
Norm St. George	1,530	15.68%
Erick R. Roberts	1,362	13.96%
Morton Sider	1,335	13.68%
Henry Bosch	701	7.18%

Footnotes

^ Karen O'Brien, "Taking a hike into the past", Hamilton Spectator, 23 March 1992, B4.
^ Dave Kewley, "St. Kitts hydro plugs into Hamilton", Hamilton Spectator, 9 November 2004, A8.
^ Marlene Bergsma, "Pesticide ban dies as council flip-flops", St. Catharines Standard, 17 January 2006 Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, accessed 5 November 2006.
^ M. Zito, "Tower opponents deserve voter support Nov. 13", St. Catharines Standard, 2 November 2006^{[permanent dead link]}, accessed 5 November 2006.

[1] Karen O'Brien, "Taking a hike into the past", Hamilton Spectator, 23 March 1992, B4.

[2] Dave Kewley, "St. Kitts hydro plugs into Hamilton", Hamilton Spectator, 9 November 2004, A8.

[3] Marlene Bergsma, "Pesticide ban dies as council flip-flops", St. Catharines Standard, 17 January 2006 Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, accessed 5 November 2006.

[4] M. Zito, "Tower opponents deserve voter support Nov. 13", St. Catharines Standard, 2 November 2006^{[permanent dead link]}, accessed 5 November 2006.

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