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. Several smaller municipalities in 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."Emo, La Vallee elect new leaders" . Fort Frances Times Online, October 26, 2010.
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 editorial which was republished in several other 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.. Sudbury Star, October 13, 2010.
Single tier municipalities Brant County
Mayoral Candidate 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
Brantford
Chatham-Kent
Mayoral Candidate 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
Greater Sudbury
Mayoral Candidate Vote % Marianne Matichuk"Former city bureaucrat enters mayoral race". Northern Life, September 9, 2010. 25,042 46.1 John Rodriguez (X)Municipal election starting to take shape . Sudbury Star, January 15, 2010. 19,819 36.5 Ted Callaghan"Callaghan enters race for mayor's seat" . Northern Life, June 23, 2010. 7,298 13.4 Derek Young 1,432 2.6 Zack Gauthier 390 0.7 Dennis Gorman 167 0.3 Ed Pokonzie. Sudbury Star, August 18, 2010. 102 0.2 David Popescu 96 0.2 Total valid votes 54,346
Haldimand County
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Ken Hewitt 6,984 44.6Marie Trainer (X) 5,748 36.7Buck Sloat 2,929 18.7
!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate !colspan="3"|Popular vote |- ! Votes ! % ! ±% |- | style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Craig Grice (incumbent) | style="text-align:right;" | 1,578 | style="text-align:right;" | 41.43% | style="text-align:right;" | n/a |- | style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Gary McHale | style="text-align:right;" |1,097 | style="text-align:right;" |28.8% | style="text-align:right;" | n/a |- | style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Bryan Barker | style="text-align:right;" |933 | style="text-align:right;" |24.5 | style="text-align:right;" | n/a |- | style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Rob Duncan | style="text-align:right;" |177 | style="text-align:right;" |5.27% | style="text-align:right;" | n/a |- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total Votes | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |3,809 | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |100% | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" | |- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered Voters | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |8,090 | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |47.08% | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |n/a |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Haldimand County Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan. Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources: Haldimand County Clerk's Office
Hamilton
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Bob Bratina 52,684 37.32Larry Di Ianni 40,091 28.40Fred Eisenberger (X) 38,719 27.43Michael James Baldasaro 2,892 2.05Tone Marrone 1,052 0.75Mahesh P. Butani 950 0.67 Glenn Hamilton 949 0.67Pat Filice 768 0.54Ken Leach 577 0.41Andrew Haines 557 0.39Mark Wozny 433 0.31Steven Waxman 429 0.30Edward H. C. Graydon 404 0.29Gino Speziale 356 0.25Victor Veri 313 0.22
Kawartha Lakes Mayoral Candidate Vote %Ric McGee (X) 13,850 47.78Andy Letham 12,722 43.88Lynne Boldt 2,417 8.34
Norfolk County
Mayoral Candidate Vote % Dennis Travale (X) 11,018 66.24 Clarence Wheaton 5,615 33.76
Ottawa
Mayoral Candidate Vote % Jim Watson 131,258 48.70 Larry O'Brien (X) 64,853 24.06 Clive Doucet 40,147 14.89Andrew S. Haydon 18,904 7.01 Mike Maguire 6,617 2.45Robert 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
Prince Edward County Mayoral Candidate Vote %Peter Mertens 3489 33.18Sandy Latchford 2327 22.13Monica Alyea 1828 17.38Lori Slik 1203 11.44Gordon Fox 1073 10.20Paul Boyd 593 564
Toronto
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Rob Ford 380,201 47.098George Smitherman 287,393 35.602Joe Pantalone 94,840 11.749Rocco Rossi 4,973 0.616George Babula 3,242 0.402Rocco Achampong 2,781 0.345Abdullah-Baquie Ghazi 2,746 0.34Michael Alexander 2,452 0.304Vijay Sarma 2,233 0.277Sarah Thomson 1,876 0.232Jaime Castillo 1,862 0.231Dewitt Lee 1,685 0.209Douglas Campbell 1,420 0.176Kevin Clarke 1,400 0.173Joseph Pampena 1,308 0.162David Epstein 1,198 0.148Monowar Hossain 1,186 0.147Michael Flie 1,178 0.146Don Andrews 1,023 0.127Weizhen Tang 885 0.11Daniel Walker 795 0.098Keith Cole 794 0.098Michael Brausewetter 791 0.098Barry Goodhead 736 0.091Charlene Cottle 730 0.09Tibor Steinberger 729 0.09Christopher Ball 690 0.085James Di Fiore 649 0.08Diane Devenyi 627 0.078John Letonja 587 0.073Himy Syed 576 0.071Carmen Macklin 565 0.07Howard Gomberg 472 0.058David Vallance 442 0.055Mark State 433 0.054Phil Taylor 425 0.053Colin Magee 397 0.049Selwyn Firth 392 0.049Ratan Wadhwa 288 0.036Gerald Derome 249 0.031
Regional municipalities Durham
Halton
Muskoka District
Niagara
Oxford
Peel
Waterloo
York
Counties Bruce
Dufferin
Elgin
Essex
Frontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Hastings
Huron
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds and Grenville
Lennox and Addington
Middlesex
Northumberland
Perth
Peterborough
Prescott and Russell
Renfrew
Simcoe
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
Wellington
Separated municipalities Barrie Mayoral Candidate Vote %Jeff Lehman 13,562 39.2%Joe Tascona 9,650 27.9%Rob Hamilton 5,140 14.8%Mike Ramsay 4,507 13%David Aspden (X) 1,249 3.6%Harry Ahmed 304 0.8%Carl Hauck 115 0.4%Darren Roskam 68 0.3%
Belleville Mayoral Candidate Vote % Neil R. Ellis (X) 10,081 75.09 Mitch Panciuk 2,825 21.17 Lonnie D. Herrington 350 2.62 Graham K. Longhurst 149 1.12
Brockville Mayoral Candidate Vote %David L. Henderson (X) 2,718 33.6Ben Tekamp 2,553 31.6Louise Severson 2,093 25.8Robert A. Marleau 393 4.8Hannelore Walther 328 4.0
Gananoque Mayoral Candidate Vote % Erika Demchuk 1,260 68.6 James E. Garrah (X) 577 31.4
Guelph
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Karen Farbridge (X) 14,902 54.1David Birtwistle 10,576 38.4Ray Mitchell 1,182 4.3 Scott Nightingale 878 3.2
Kingston Mayoral Candidate Vote %Mark Gerretsen 17,096 56.4Rob Matheson 6,905 22.8Barrie Chalmers 5,486 18.1John Last 377 1.2Nathaniel Wilson 227 0.8Kevin Lavalley 215 0.7
London
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Joe Fontana48,62647.2Anne Marie DeCicco-Best (X) 46,089 44.8Cynthia Etheridge 4,402 4.3Eric Southern 644 0.6Ivan W. Kasiurak 612 0.6Christopher R. Foerster 462 0.4Aaron Broughm 427 0.4Wayne Ford 375 0.4Zak Young 298 0.3Stephen Elliott Beckles 252 0.2Tomasz Winnicki 234 0.2Dan Lenart 1730.2Tom Ha 149 0.1Ma'in Sinan 128 0.1Jonas Richard White 83 0.1
Orillia Mayoral Candidate Vote %Angelo Orsi 5,398 48.4Tim Lauer 3,844 34.5Ralph Cipolla 1,913 17.1
Pembroke
Mayoral Candidate Vote % Ed Jacyno (X) 2,803 66.7 Stanley E. Sambey 1,398 33.3
Peterborough
Prescott
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Brett Todd 913 62.5Suzanne Dodge (X) 547 37.5
Quinte West
Mayoral Candidate Vote %John R. Williams (X) 8,159 94.0Claudor du-Lude 522 6.0
Smiths Falls
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Dennis Staples (X) 1,925 50.9Jeffrey G. Keays 1,857 49.1
St. Marys
Mayoral Candidate Vote % Steve Grose 1,767 62.4 Jamie Hahn (X) 989 34.9 Eric Farquhar 76 2.7
St. Thomas
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Heather Jackson-Chapman 3,666 37.7Cliff Barwick (X) 3,158 32.4Albert Riddell 2,910 29.9
Stratford
Mayoral Candidate Vote % Dan Mathieson (X) 7,857 79.2 Martin Weatherall 2,061 20.8
Windsor
Mayoral Candidate Vote %Eddie Francis (X) 39,384 56.2Rick Limoges 28,354 40.4Anthony Brothers 979 1.4Michael Mosgrove 748 1.1Robert W. Vinson 377 0.5Sam Sinjari 273 0.4
Districts Algoma District
Cochrane District
Kenora District
Manitoulin District
Nipissing District
Parry Sound District
Rainy River District
Sudbury District
Thunder Bay District
Timiskaming District
In fiction The 2010 first season of the TV sitcom Dan for Mayor takes place during the municipal election in the fictional city of Wessex.
See also Canadian electoral calendar, 2010 Electronic voting in Canada Municipal elections in Canada 2006 Ontario municipal elections
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