Municipal elections were held in Ontario , Canada , on October 25, 2010. Voters in Ontario elected mayors , councillors , school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of the province's municipalities . A total of 444 elections were held.[ 1] Northern Ontario held no council elections, as their entire councils were acclaimed into office, although the towns still saw contested elections for their school board seats.[ 2]
Voting date
Notwithstanding advance polling arrangements, municipal elections were held on the fourth Monday of October. From 1978 until 2006 the second Monday of November was the fixed date.
Nomination period
Candidate registration opened on January 4, 2010 and ended on September 10.
Term lengths
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario legislation (Bill 81, Schedule H ), passed in 2006, sets the length of terms in office for all municipal elected officials at four years.
Campaigns in major cities
The Toronto municipal election saw an open contest for mayor, due to the retirement of David Miller after two terms. In Ottawa , former MPP and Mayor Jim Watson ran against incumbent Larry O'Brien , who was cleared of bribery charges in 2009.
Some media, including a Sudbury Star Sun Media newspapers, noted the seeming emergence of a Tea Party mentality in some parts of the province, with a number of self-styled "outsider" or populist candidates – including Rob Ford in Toronto, Joe Fontana in London , David D'Intino in St. Catharines , Rob Matheson in Kingston , Ron Schinners in Sault Ste. Marie and Marianne Matichuk in Greater Sudbury – campaigning on platforms that traded heavily in mistrust of the existing municipal governments.[ 3]
Single tier municipalities
Mayoral Candidate [1]
Vote
%
Ron Eddy (X)3,187
33.65
Steve Comisky
3,048
32.18
John Weaver
1,695
17.89
Roy Haggart
1,155
12.19
Shawn Pratt
387
4.09
Mayoral Candidate [2]
Vote
%
Randy Hope (X)13,169
40.87
Tom McGregor
10,956
34.00
Ian McLarty
6,608
20.51
Austin Wright
765
2.37
Mary Kwong Lee
549
1.70
Allan R. Traylor
171
0.53
Mayoral Candidate [4]
Vote
%
Bob Bratina 52,684
37.32
Larry Di Ianni 40,091
28.40
Fred Eisenberger (X)38,719
27.43
Michael James Baldasaro 2,892
2.05
Tone Marrone
1,052
0.75
Mahesh P. Butani
950
0.67
Glenn Hamilton
949
0.67
Pat Filice
768
0.54
Ken Leach
577
0.41
Andrew Haines
557
0.39
Mark Wozny
433
0.31
Steven Waxman
429
0.30
Edward H. C. Graydon
404
0.29
Gino Speziale
356
0.25
Victor Veri
313
0.22
Mayoral Candidate [5]
Vote
%
Ric McGee (X)
13,850
47.78
Andy Letham
12,722
43.88
Lynne Boldt
2,417
8.34
Mayoral Candidate [6]
Vote
%
Dennis Travale (X)
11,018
66.24
Clarence Wheaton
5,615
33.76
Mayoral Candidate
Vote
%
Jim Watson 131,258
48.70
Larry O'Brien (X)64,853
24.06
Clive Doucet 40,147
14.89
Andrew S. Haydon 18,904
7.01
Mike Maguire
6,617
2.45
Robert Gauthier
1,413
0.52
Jane Scharf
1,169
0.43
Charlie Taylor
1,125
0.42
Cesar Bello
926
0.34
Idris Ben-Tahir
729
0.27
Samuel Wright
371
0.14
Robin Lawrence
300
0.11
Joseph Furtenbacher
299
0.11
Sean Ryan
360
0.13
Julio Pita
265
0.10
Robert Larter
219
0.08
Michael St. Arnaud
200
0.07
Daniel J. Lyrette
166
0.06
Vincent M. Libeshya
122
0.05
Fraser Liscumb
104
0.04
Mayoral Candidate [7]
Vote
%
Peter Mertens
3489
33.18
Sandy Latchford
2327
22.13
Monica Alyea
1828
17.38
Lori Slik
1203
11.44
Gordon Fox
1073
10.20
Paul Boyd
593
564
Mayoral Candidate [8]
Vote
%
Rob Ford 380,201
47.098
George Smitherman 287,393
35.602
Joe Pantalone 94,840
11.749
Rocco Rossi 4,973
0.616
George Babula
3,242
0.402
Rocco Achampong
2,781
0.345
Abdullah-Baquie Ghazi
2,746
0.34
Michael Alexander
2,452
0.304
Vijay Sarma
2,233
0.277
Sarah Thomson 1,876
0.232
Jaime Castillo
1,862
0.231
Dewitt Lee
1,685
0.209
Douglas Campbell
1,420
0.176
Kevin Clarke
1,400
0.173
Joseph Pampena
1,308
0.162
David Epstein
1,198
0.148
Monowar Hossain
1,186
0.147
Michael Flie
1,178
0.146
Don Andrews 1,023
0.127
Weizhen Tang
885
0.11
Daniel Walker
795
0.098
Keith Cole 794
0.098
Michael Brausewetter
791
0.098
Barry Goodhead
736
0.091
Charlene Cottle
730
0.09
Tibor Steinberger
729
0.09
Christopher Ball
690
0.085
James Di Fiore
649
0.08
Diane Devenyi
627
0.078
John Letonja
587
0.073
Himy Syed
576
0.071
Carmen Macklin
565
0.07
Howard Gomberg
472
0.058
David Vallance
442
0.055
Mark State
433
0.054
Phil Taylor
425
0.053
Colin Magee
397
0.049
Selwyn Firth
392
0.049
Ratan Wadhwa
288
0.036
Gerald Derome
249
0.031
Regional municipalities
Counties
Separated municipalities
Mayoral Candidate [10]
Vote
%
Neil R. Ellis (X)
10,081
Mitch Panciuk
2,825
Lonnie D. Herrington
350
Graham K. Longhurst
149
Mayoral Candidate [11]
Vote
%
David L. Henderson (X)
2,718
Ben Tekamp
2,553
Louise Severson
2,093
Robert A. Marleau
393
Hannelore Walther
328
Mayoral Candidate [12]
Vote
%
Erika Demchuk
1,260
James E. Garrah (X)
577
Mayoral Candidate [13]
Vote
%
Karen Farbridge (X)14,902
54.11
David Birtwistle
10,576
38.40
Ray Mitchell
1,182
4.29
Scott Nightingale
878
3.18
Mayoral Candidate [14]
Vote
%
Mark Gerretsen 17,096
56.41
Rob Matheson
6,905
22.78
Barrie Chalmers
5,486
18.10
John Last
377
1.24
Nathaniel Wilson
227
0.75
Kevin Lavalley
215
0.71
Mayoral Candidate [15]
Vote
%
Joe Fontana 48,626
47.2
Anne Marie DeCicco-Best (X)46,089
44.8
Cynthia Etheridge
4,402
4.3
Eric Southern
644
0.6
Ivan W. Kasiurak
612
0.6
Christopher R. Foerster
462
0.4
Aaron Broughm
427
0.4
Wayne Ford
375
0.4
Zak Young
298
0.3
Stephen Elliott Beckles
252
0.2
Tomasz Winnicki 234
0.2
Dan Lenart
173
0.2
Tom Ha
149
0.1
Ma'in Sinan
128
0.1
Jonas Richard White
83
0.1
Mayoral Candidate [16]
Vote
%
Angelo Orsi
5,398
Tim Lauer
3,844
Ralph Cipolla
1,913
Mayoral Candidate [17]
Vote
%
Ed Jacyno (X)
2,803
Stanley E. Sambey
1,398
Mayoral Candidate [18]
Vote
%
Brett Todd
913
Suzanne Dodge (X)
547
Mayoral Candidate [19]
Vote
%
John R. Williams (X)
8,159
Claudor du-Lude
522
Mayoral Candidate [20]
Vote
%
Dennis Staples (X)
1,925
Jeffrey G. Keays
1,857
Mayoral Candidate [21]
Vote
%
Steve Grose
1,767
62.4
Jamie Hahn (X)
989
34.9
Eric Farquhar
76
2.7
Mayoral Candidate [22]
Vote
%
Heather Jackson-Chapman
3,666
Cliff Barwick (X)
3,158
Albert Riddell
2,910
Mayoral Candidate [23]
Vote
%
Dan Mathieson (X)
7,857
79.22
Martin Weatherall
2,061
20.78
Mayoral Candidate [24]
Vote
%
Eddie Francis (X)39,384
56.17
Rick Limoges 28,354
40.44
Anthony Brothers
979
1.40
Michael Mosgrove
748
1.07
Robert W. Vinson
377
0.54
Sam Sinjari
273
0.39
Districts
In fiction
The 2010 first season of the TV sitcom Dan for Mayor
See also
References
^ "Ontarians head to polls in 444 local elections" . CBC.ca . 2010-10-25.^ "Emo, La Vallee elect new leaders" . Fort Frances Times Online , October 26, 2010.^ "Tea Partyish mistrust gaining steam" . Sudbury Star ^ "Former city bureaucrat enters mayoral race" . Northern Life , September 9, 2010.^ Municipal election starting to take shape . Sudbury Star ^ "Callaghan enters race for mayor's seat" . Northern Life ^ a b "Mayor's race getting pretty crowded" . Sudbury Star 
