In the 2003 municipal elections in Ontario, voters in Ontario, Canada, elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of Ontario's municipalities.
Results of election According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, province-wide turnout for municipal elections in 2003 was 40.18% across 408 municipalities. This was down roughly 1%. 574 positions were acclaimed and 28 municipalities reported that their entire councils were acclaimed. In all, there were 5,103 candidates for 2,268 positions.
Here are results of mayoral races in selected cities in the civic elections held on November 10, 2003.
Ajax Steve Parish 10,302 Kip Van Kempen 4,192
Aurora Tim Jones 5,597 Homer Farsad 3,014
Barrie Rob Hamilton 14,213 Patricia B. Copeland 7,901 Jim Perri 5,020 Jon Vink 395
Belleville Mary-Anne Sills 5,945 Neil R. Ellis 5,707 Doug Parker 3,256 Trueman Tuck 57
Brampton Susan Fennell 34,436 Bill Cowie 19,184
Brant Ron Eddy 4,391 Steve Comisky 3,590
Brantford Mike Hancock 11,668 Chris Friel 11,653 Randy Tooke 721
Burlington Rob MacIsaac (acclaimed)
Caledon Marolyn Morrison 4,075 Richard Whitehead 3,855 Gary Wiles 3,635 Anthony Di Somma 1,455
Cambridge Doug Craig 13,005 Fatima Pereira 4,142
Chatham–Kent Diane Gagner 16,737 Austin Wright 6,033 Mary K. Lee 4,817 Richard Erickson 4,202 Larry Brundritt 1,989 William "Bill" Arends 1,472
Clarington John Mutton 16,143 Richard Ward 1,824
Cornwall Phil Poirier 7,271 Brian Sylvester 6,131 Andre Rivette 1,756
Georgina Robert Grossi 6,631 Jeffrey Holec 4,441
Greater Sudbury
In a surprisingly active race (Toronto was the only city in the province with more mayoral candidates on the ballot), city councillor David Courtemanche emerged the victor over businessman Paul Marleau to succeed retiring mayor Jim Gordon.
Guelph In 2003, Guelph was the only major city in the province where both of the leading candidates for mayor were women.
Kate Quarrie 16,158 Karen Farbridge 12,291 Billy Craven 1,156 Kurt Krausewitz 423 John Ustation 347
Halton Hills Rick Bonnette 5,035 John Day 4,022 Kathy Gastle 2,206 Marilyn Serjeantson 1,423
Haldimand Marie Trainer 7,303 Lorraine Bergstrand 6,192 Wilfred Marlowe 1,363
Hamilton See 2003 Hamilton municipal election
Larry Di Ianni 70,539 David Christopherson 54,298 Dick Wildeman 4,462 Michael Peters 3,270 Tom Murray 2,881 Michael J. Baldasaro 2,569 Matt Jelly 510
Kawartha Lakes Barbara Kelly 9,748 John R. Macklem 7,189 Patrick J. O’Reilly 6,882 Patrick Dunn 4,585 Joe McGuire 4,335
Kingston Harvey Rosen 23,179 Isabel Turner 4,550 Richard Moller 3,167 Dave Meers 2,958 Jeffrey P. Lowes 453 Joseph R. Barr 263
Kitchener Carl Zehr 23,707 Jon Huemiller 4,553 Ferenc Kulcsar 739
London Anne Marie DeCicco 48,789 Vaughan Minor 37,337 Garry Moon 1,871 Ivan W. Kasiurak 865 Andrew McIlhargey 729 Carl Harris 636 Frank Burlock 578 Linden John Cassina 506 Mesbah Eldeeb 388 Kenneth Venus 312 Peter Schuller 296
Markham Donald Cousens 31,532 Bernadette Manning 5,635 Sam Orrico 1,941
Milton Gord Krantz 6,238 Rick Malboeuf 2,224 Al Volpe 701 Las Polcz 409 Vito Agozzino 369 David Lloyd 331
Mississauga
First elected mayor in 1978, Hazel McCallion was easily reelected to her tenth term. As one of the longest serving politicians in the country, Mayor McCallion is well known to Mississaugans.
Hazel McCallion 74,719 Masood Khan 2,304 Charles Coober 1,613 Larry J. Mancini 1,478 Dyal Chanderpaul 1,419
Newmarket Al Heller 8,645 Tom Taylor 4,604 David Martin 2,268
Niagara Falls Ted Salci 17,843 Wayne Thomson 10,284 Darren W. Wood 405 John (Ringo) Beam 376
Norfolk See: 2003 Norfolk County municipal election
Rita Kalmbach 12,143 Brian Decker 5,158
North Bay
Vic Fedeli 13,025 Lynne Bennett 3,147 Tim Wright 686 Jeff Marceau 508
Oakville Incumbent Ann Mulvale's narrow defeat of development skeptic Rob Burton had to be confirmed later in a judicial recount.
Ann Mulvale 15,728 Rob Burton 15,716 Richard Serra 573
Oshawa Incumbent mayor Nancy Diamond was defeated by challenger John Gray in a race that also hinged on economic and urban development; Gray was the pro-development candidate.
John Gray 14,921 Michael Clarke 7,333 Nancy Diamond 5,871 Ed Kowalczyk 1,827 Darlene Hovland 229
Ottawa
Incumbent Bob Chiarelli was reelected after facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Terry Kilrea.
Bob Chiarelli 104,595 Terry Kilrea 66,634 Ike Awgu 5,394 Ron Burke 2,698 John A. Bell 2,027 Donna Upson 1,312 Paula Nemchin 1,191 John Turmel 1,166
Peterborough Sylvia Sutherland 11,194 Douglas Peacock 10,522 D. Paul Ayotte 5,155 Margaree Edwards 1,326
Pickering Dave Ryan 10,426 Doug Dickerson 7,456
Quinte West Bob Campney 4,611 Terry R. F. Cassidy 3,051 Bill Armstrong 2,801 Claude Rolland du-Lude 118
Richmond Hill William F. Bell 14,405 William C. Lazenby 7,818 Sonny Khan 1,116
Sarnia Mike Bradley 13,707 Rose-Ann Nathan 5,716 Tom Hurst 623 Carlos Murray 330 Hermann Martens 198
Sault Ste. Marie John Rowswell 11,713 Peter Vaudry 8,579 Patricia Jennings 7,000 Gary Bedryk 812
St. Catharines See: 2003 St. Catharines municipal election
Tim Rigby 9,558 Wendy Patriquin 9,504 Rondi Craig 9,189 Mark Klimchuk 1,166 Burt Koiter 415 Boris Petrovici 212
St. Thomas Jeff Kohler 5,876 Joanne Brooks 3,596 John R. Heaslip 587
Thunder Bay Lynn Peterson 26,572 Frank Pullia 13,690 Orville Santa 3,767 Don Slobojan 3,602 (Mike) Marvin McMenemy 330
Timmins Victor M. Power, Mayor of Timmins for 17 of the 20 years from 1980 to 2000, who did not stand in the 2000 municipal election, came out of retirement and was returned against one-term incumbent and the first female mayor of Timmins Jamie Lim.
Victor M. Power 11,792 Jamie Lim 6,653
Toronto David Miller was elected mayor defeating John Tory, Barbara Hall and John Nunziata. See also: 2003 Toronto municipal election Results of 2003 Toronto election
Vaughan Michael Di Biase 26,113 Robert Craig 15,351
Waterloo Herb Epp 11,388 Lynne Woolstencroft 5,706 Morty Taylor 5,699 Ben Brown 337
Welland Damian Goulbourne 7,554 Cindy Forster 5,312 Philip Bradley 2,036 Dick Reuter 1,892 John Watt 473 Frank Garofalo 378
Whitby Marcel Brunelle 11,548 Judy Griffiths 3,052
Windsor Eddie Francis 39,042 Bill Marra 31,517 Ernie Lamont 2,484
Woodstock Michael Harding 4,789 Sandra J. Talbot 3,520
See also Municipal elections in Canada 2000 Ontario municipal elections 2006 Ontario municipal elections
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