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In the 2006 municipal elections in Ontario, voters in the province of Ontario, elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of Ontario's municipalities. These elections were regulated by the Municipal Elections Act of Ontario.
Contents
- Date
- Voting Notice and Attention
- Term lengths
- Campaigns in major cities
- Municipalities with over 100000 inhabitants
- Brampton
- Burlington
- Cambridge
- Chatham Kent
- Greater Sudbury
- Guelph
- Hamilton
- Kingston
- Kitchener
- London
- Markham
- Mississauga
- Oakville
- Oshawa
- Ottawa
- Richmond Hill
- St Catharines
- Thunder Bay
- Toronto
- Vaughan
- Windsor
- Municipalities with 25000 to 100000 people
- Municipalities with 5000 to 25000 people
- The Municipalities of Prescott and Russell
- References
Date
Municipal elections in all Ontario municipalities took place on Monday, November 13, 2006 (notwithstanding advance polling arrangements). Currently municipal elections in Ontario have fixed election dates, and the next round of elections are due to take place in November, 2010. Prior to the vote in 2006, the period between elections had been 3 years.
Voting Notice and Attention
Candidates may have withdrawn from the race prior to November 13, 2006, and while their names may still have appeared on the ballot, voting for a withdrawn candidate resulted in a spoiled ballot and was not counted.
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
In Toronto, their municipal election had incumbent mayor David Miller easily defeating councillor Jane Pitfield and former Liberal Party president Stephen LeDrew.
Ottawa's election race was a heated affair with incumbent mayor Bob Chiarelli finishing third behind victorious businessman Larry O'Brien and popular former councillor Alex Munter.
In London, incumbent mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best defeated Liberal MP Joe Fontana. In Mississauga, Hazel McCallion, who has been mayor since 1978 faced little competition en route to victory.
Larry Di Ianni, Hamilton's mayor was upset in an extremely close race by former alderman Fred Eisenberger.
In Greater Sudbury, mayor David Courtemanche was defeated by former NDP MP John Rodriguez.
In Guelph, former mayor Karen Farbridge defeated incumbent mayor Kate Quarrie in a reversal of the election three years prior when Quarrie defeated Farbridge.
Municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants
The following lists mayoral races and city council races unless a main article exists, in which case only the mayoral races are listed here. In the tables, candidates marked with an (X) were the incumbent.
Mayoral race
City council
Brampton
Mayoral race
Burlington
Mayoral race
City and regional council
Cambridge
Mayoral race
Chatham-Kent
Mayoral race
Greater Sudbury
Mayoral race
City council: See separate article.
Guelph
Mayoral race
Hamilton
Mayoral race
City council
See main article
Kingston
Mayoral race
City council
Kitchener
Mayoral race
City council
Regional council
London
Mayoral race
Board of control
(Four to be elected)
City council
Markham
Mayor
Regional council
Town council
Mississauga
Mayoral race
Oakville
Mayoral race
Town & regional council
See main articleOshawa
Mayoral race
Ottawa
Mayoral race
Richmond Hill
Mayoral race
Other races See main article
St. Catharines
Mayoral race
Other races
Thunder Bay
Mayoral race
Toronto
Mayoral race
City council
See main article
Vaughan
Mayoral race
Other races See main article
Windsor
Mayor
Other races: see main article
Municipalities with 25,000 to 100,000 people
Races for mayor only, see main article for more information. In the tables, candidates marked with an (X) were the incumbent.
Municipalities with 5,000 to 25,000 people
(Elected mayors shown only)
The Municipalities of Prescott and Russell
(Elected mayors shown only)