The 2022 Clarington municipal election was held from Tuesday, October 18–24, 2022, to elect a mayor, local councillors and school trustees to the Clarington Municipal Council in Clarington, Ontario, Canada. 2022 was the first year that Clarington used electronic voting. Adrian Foster, the incumbent mayor was re-elected for his fourth term, with 42% of the vote.

20,606 voters of 73,471 eligible voters (28%) cast a ballot.

Mayoral election + 2022 Clarington Mayoral electionCandidateVotes%Adrian Foster (X)8,607 42.49Joe Neal6,053 29.88Tom Dingwall5,451 26.91Mirko Pejic145 0.72Total20,505 100.00Abstained249 1.2

Regional Councillor Wards 1 and 2

+ Regional Councillor, Wards 1 and 2CandidateVotes%Granville Anderson5,290 44.17Janice Jones5,143 42.94Bernard Sanchez1,543 12.88Total12,403 100.00Abstained427 3.4

Wards 3 and 4 + Regional Councillor, Wards 3 and 4CandidateVotes%Willie WooAcclaimed

Local Councillor Ward 1 Courtice + Local Councillor, Ward 1CandidateVotes%Sami Elhajjeh2,800 47.69Steven Conway1,391 23.69Robert Livingstone1,022 17.41Larey Reynolds658 11.21Total6442 100.00Abstained571 8.9

Ward 2 Bowmanville-West + Local Councillor, Ward 2CandidateVotes%Lloyd Rang2,795 52.27Ryan Kerr2,552 47.73Total5961 100.00Abstained614 10.3

Ward 3 Bowmanville-East + Local Councillor, Ward 3CandidateVotes%Corinna Traill (X)2,115 55.12Marven Whidden1,073 27.96Glenn Baswick649 16.91Total3978 100.00Abstained141 3.5

Ward 4 Newcastle + Local Councillor, Ward 4CandidateVotes%Margaret Zwart (X)2,103 52.18Jim Abernethy1,581 39.23Christy Gunaratnam346 8.59Total4124 100.00Abstained94 2.3

Durham Regional Chair

+ Regional Chair, Regional Municipality of DurhamCandidateVotes%John Henry11,869 64.4Laurie Blaind Mackie2938 15.9Peter Neal2725 14.8Kurdil-Telt Patch901 4.9Total20,505 100.00Abstained2072 10.1

School Trustee elections Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board + Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board TrusteesCandidateVotes%Cathy Abraham8702 25.1Kathleen Flynn5919 17.0Paul Brown4066 11.7Michael Barret3719 10.7Gail Nyberg3442 9.9Tenzin Shomar3201 9.2Pranay Gunti2179 6.3Terry Rekar1514 4.4Kyle Fehr1083 3.1Sheikh Hossain898 2.6Total17,281 100.00Abstained2971 17.2

Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board + Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board TrusteesCandidateVotes%Kevin Mackenzie1558 37.5Joshua Glover1363 32.8Alphonse Ainsworth1233 29.7Total3040 100.00Abstained397 13.1

Conseil scolaire Viamonde Trustee + Conseil scolaire Viamonde TrusteeCandidateVotes%Serge Paul23 62.2Kristine Dandavino14 37.8Total46 100.00Abstained9 19.6

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