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2000 St. Catharines municipal election

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St. Catharines municipal election, 2000

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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

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

  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, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, accessed 5 November 2006.
  4. ^ M. Zito, "Tower opponents deserve voter support Nov. 13", St. Catharines Standard, 2 November 2006, accessed 5 November 2006.