Elections were held in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, on October 24, 2022, in conjunction with municipal elections across the province. Registration for candidates officially opened on Monday, May 2, 2022, and the deadline for candidate nominations was Friday, August 19 at 2 p.m.
Candidates marked with an (X) indicates they were the incumbent for that position.
Durham Regional Council
Position Elected Chair John Henry Ajax Mayor Shaun Collier Regional Councillor, Ward 1 Marilyn Crawford Regional Councillor, Ward 2 Sterling Lee Regional Councillor, Ward 3 Joanne Dies Brock Mayor Walter Schummer Regional Councillor Michael Jubb Clarington Mayor Adrian Foster Regional Councillor, Wards 1 & 2 Granville Anderson Regional Councillor, Wards 3 & 4 Willie Woo Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter Regional Councillor, Ward 1 John Neal Regional Councillor, Ward 2 Tito-Dante Marimpietri Regional Councillor, Ward 3 Bob Chapman Regional Councillor, Ward 4 Rick Kerr Regional Councillor, Ward 5 Brian Nicholson Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe Regional Councillor, Ward 1 Maurice Brenner Regional Councillor, Ward 2 Linda Cook Regional Councillor, Ward 3 David Pickles Scugog Mayor Wilma Wotten Regional Councillor Ian McDougall Uxbridge Mayor Dave Barton Regional Councillor Bruce Garrod Whitby Mayor Elizabeth Roy Regional Councillor Rhonda Mulcahy Regional Councillor Chris Leahy Regional Councillor Steve Yamada Regional Councillor Maleeha Shahid
Durham Regional Chair Voters from across the Durham Region directly elected the Durham Regional Chair. The following are the official results for Durham Regional Chair.
Chair John Henry won re-election.
Candidate Vote % John Henry (X) 69,544 63.42 Laurie Blaind Mackie 20,435 18.63 Peter Neal 12,788 11.66 Kurdil-Telt Patch 6.895 6.29
Ajax
Ajax elected 1 mayor, 3 regional councillors in 1 of 3 wards, and 3 local councillors in 1 of 3 wards.
The following are the unofficial results in the Town of Ajax.
Mayor Mayor Shaun Collier won re-election. Candidate Vote %Shaun Collier (X) 11,691 62.32Arthur Augustine 3,481 18.56Colin Hubble 1,852 9.87Garry Reader 1,735 9.25
Regional Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Marilyn Crawford (X) 5,108 80.70Intab Ali 1,222 19.30 Ward 2Sterling Lee (X) 3,066 58.77Vic Jagmohan 1,156 22.16Adam Bashir 995 19.07 Ward 3Joanne Dies (X) 5,095 73.78Daniel Corrigan 1,811 26.22
Local Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Rob Tyler-Morin (X) 4,475 71.05Andras Adaikkalam 962 15.27Arshad Awan 861 13.67 Ward 2Nancy Henry 1,667 31.22Ashmeed Khan (X) 1,634 30.60Selladurai Jeyakumaran 986 18.46Azhar Khan 838 15.69Ramon Estaris 215 4.03 Ward 3Lisa Bower (X) 6,117 88.13Liliane Niyongabo Kisoro 824 11.87
Brock Brock elected 1 mayor, 1 regional councillor, and 5 local councillors in 1 of 5 wards.
The following are the official results in the Township of Brock.
Mayor Mayor John Grant, who was appointed after the death of Mayor Debbie Bath-Hadden, did not run for election. Ward 3 Councillor Walter Schummer won the election, defeating Regional Councillor Ted Smith. Candidate Vote %Walter Schummer 2,185 54.95Ted Smith 1,147 28.85Ryan Williams 644 16.20
Regional Councillor
Candidate Vote %Michael Jubb 3,056 76.53David Marquis 713 17.86Dorothy Sanderson 224 5.61
Local Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Peter Frank 666 77.9Mike Simard 189 22.1 Ward 2Claire Doble (X) Acclaimed Ward 3Angela Canavan Acclaimed Ward 4Cria Pettingill (X) Acclaimed Ward 5Lynn Campbell (X) 389 50.8Tony Laundrie 376 49.2
By-election Following the resignation of Walter Schummer due to personal reasons, a mayoral by-election was intended to occur on September 8, 2025. Only one candidate ran, Deputy Mayor Michael Jubb, who was therefore elected by acclamation.
Clarington
Clarington elected 1 mayor, 2 regional councillors in 1 of 2 wards, and 4 local councillors in 1 of 4 wards.
The following are the official results in the Municipality of Clarington.
Mayor Mayor Adrian Foster won re-election. Candidate Vote %Adrian Foster (X) 8,607 42.5Joe Neal 6,053 29.9Tom Dingwall 5,451 26.9Mirko Pejic 145 0.7
Regional Councillors
Candidate Vote % Wards 1 & 2Granville Anderson 5,290 44.2Janice Jones 5,143 42.9Bernard Sanchez 1,543 12.9 Wards 3 & 4Willie Woo Acclaimed
Local Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Sami Elhajjeh 2,800 47.7Steven Conway 1,391 23.7Robert Livingstone 1,022 17.4Larey Reynolds 658 11.2 Ward 2Lloyd Rang 2,795 52.3Ryan Kerr 2,552 47.7 Ward 3Corinna Traill (X) 2,115 55.1Marven Whidden 1,073 28.0Glenn Baswick 649 16.9 Ward 4Margaret Zwart (X) 2,103 52.2Jim Abernethy 1,581 39.2Christy Gunaratnam 346 8.6
Oshawa Oshawa elected 1 mayor, 1 regional and city councillors in 1 of 5 wards, and 5 city councillors in 1 of 5 wards.
The following are the official results in the City of Oshawa.
Mayor Mayor Dan Carter won re-election. Candidate Vote %Dan Carter (X) 14,270 64.94Sara Lear 4,728 21.61Joe Ingino 2,956 13.45
Regional & City Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1John Neal (X) 1,829 76.21Christopher Parkinson 322 13.42Rosaldo Russo 249 10.38 Ward 2 Tito-Dante Marimpietri (X) 2,427 53.17 Lina Fouroughy 2,138 46.83 Ward 3 Bob Chapman (X) 3,793 72.39 Jemma Lambert 1,447 27.61 Ward 4 Rick Kerr (X) 2,467 45.66 Doug Sanders 2,072 38.35 Jeff Davis 864 15.99 Ward 5 Brian Nicholson (X) 1,948 50.60 Alex Down 1,585 41.17 Todd Forbes 317 8.23
City Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1 Rosemary McConkey (X) 1,101 45.84 Theresa Corless 1,093 45.50 Ahmad Rashed Formuly 208 8.66 Ward 2Jim Lee 1,509 33.80Jane Hurst (X) 1,207 27.03Jonathan Giancroce 792 17.74Julia McCrea 695 15.57Amin Ullah 183 4.10John Sturdy 79 1.77 Ward 3Bradley Marks (X) 2,694 53.14Amber Derby 1,307 25.78Timothy Dobson 763 15.05Joe Shaw 306 6.04 Ward 4Derek Giberson (X) 1,497 27.38Dave Thompson 1,169 21.38Fred Eismont 1,105 20.21James Bountrogiannis 1,046 19.13Mark Logan 651 11.91 Ward 5John Gray (X) 2,360 62.45Amanda Jean Lewis 572 15.14Karrie Lynn Dymond 566 14.98Taylor Shane Bailey 281 7.44
Pickering Pickering elected 1 mayor, 3 regional councillors in 1 of 3 wards, and 3 city councillors in 1 of 3 wards.
The following are the official results in the City of Pickering.
Mayor
Incumbent mayor Dave Ryan did not run for re-election. Regional Councillor Kevin Ashe won the election, defeating Janice Frampton and Bradley Nazar.
Candidate Vote % Kevin Ashe 7,867 38.76 Janice Frampton 6,634 32.69 Bradley Nazar 5,795 28.55
Regional Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Maurice Brenner 3,773 50.74Tom Hayes 3,663 49.26 Ward 2Linda Cook 1,996 40.73Gary Strange 1,837 37.48Ali Marani 606 12.36Eileen Higdon 462 9.43 Ward 3David Pickles (X) 4,298 55.50Peter Rodrigues 3,446 44.50
City Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Lisa Robinson 1,634 21.87James Blair 1,286 17.21Raveena Rajasingham 973 13.02Karen Sloan 942 12.61 Anthony Michael Yacub 932 12.47Tony Harold 811 10.86Zeynab Kazi 477 6.38 Jeanine Soligo 416 5.57 Ward 2Mara Nagy 1,722 34.81Dave Currie 910 18.39Ayesha Sardar 755 15.26Nancy Van Rooy 698 14.11Frank McGillan 477 9.64George David Turner 385 7.78 Ward 3Shaheen Butt (X) 3,777 47.91Darshan Sritharan 2,498 31.68Damian Williams 1,435 18.20Ali Naqvi 174 2.21
Scugog Scugog elected 1 mayor, 1 regional councillor, and 5 local councillors in 1 of 5 wards.
The following are the official results in the Township of Scugog.
Mayor Incumbent mayor Bobbie Drew did not run for re-election. Regional Councillor Wilma Wotten won the election by acclamation. Candidate Vote % Wilma Wotten Acclaimed
Regional Councillor
Candidate Vote %Ian McDougall Acclaimed
Local Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1David LeRoy Acclaimed Ward 2Janna Guido (X) Acclaimed Ward 3Robert Rock (X) Acclaimed Ward 4Harold Wright Acclaimed Ward 5Terry Coyne 634 45.68Ivo Finotti 386 27.81Imran Mohammad 368 26.51
Uxbridge Uxbridge elected 1 mayor, 1 regional councillor, and 5 local councillors in 1 of 5 wards.
The following are the official results in the Township of Uxbridge.
Mayor Mayor Dave Barton won re-election by acclamation. Candidate Vote %Dave Barton (X) Acclaimed
Regional Councillor
Candidate Vote %Bruce Garrod 4,468 68.64Jack Ballinger 2,041 31.36
Local Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1Pamela Beach (X) 654 53.34Dominic Morrissey 572 46.66 Ward 2Gordon Shreeve 745 51.77Patrick Molloy 694 48.23 Ward 3Zed Pickering 668 56.47John Haddock 329 27.81J.P. Herold 186 15.72 Ward 4Willie Popp (X) Acclaimed Ward 5Todd Snooks (X) 699 56.19Christine McKenzie 418 33.60Erin Jones 127 10.21
Whitby
Whitby elected 1 mayor, 4 regional councillors, and 4 local councillors in 1 of 4 wards.
The following are the official results in the Town of Whitby.
Mayor
Mayor Don Mitchell did not run for re-election. Regional Councillor Elizabeth Roy won the election, defeating Local Councillor for Ward 2 West Deidre Newman.
Candidate Vote %Elizabeth Roy 12,654 53.79Deidre Newman 9,355 39.76Evan Griffiths 1,517 6.45
Regional Councillors Elected by plurality block voting, with each voter casting up to four votes.
Candidate Vote %Rhonda Mulcahy (X) 12,947 17.81Chris Leahy (X) 12,541 17.26Steve Yamada (X) 12,287 16.91Maleeha Shahid 11,441 15.74Ron Kapuscinski 8,531 11.74Michael G. Emm 7,683 10.57Vasu Mallula 3,788 5.21Dave Sansom 3,457 4.76
Local Councillors
Candidate Vote % Ward 1 NorthSteve Lee (X) Acclaimed Ward 2 WestMatt Cardwell 2,995 42.93Lori Lopes 2,431 34.84Anjali Thorve 941 13.49Kamlesh Partel 408 5.85Jim Skenderis 202 2.90 Ward 3 CentreNiki Lundquist 2,492 54.84Joanne Drumm (X) 2,052 45.16 Ward 4 EastVictoria Bozinovski 2,431 39.79John Rinella 2,166 35.45PG Case 860 14.08Rajat Sharma 653 10.69
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