1994 Toronto municipal election


The 1994 Toronto municipal election was held in November 1994 to elect councillors in Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and mayors, councillors and school trustees in Toronto, York, East York, North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke.
The election was noted as a defeat for incumbents. Three sitting mayors were defeated: June Rowlands in Toronto, Fergy Brown, in York, and Bruce Sinclair of Etobicoke. On Metro Toronto Council it was a victory for the left as the New Democratic Party faction grew from six to nine members.

Metro Council

Ten of Metro Council's 28 members ran unopposed in the election, and they were therefore acclaimed. No incumbents were defeated. The most noted change was the growth of the left wing NDP faction from six to nine. New NDP members were David Miller, Caroline Di Giovanni, and mayor Michael Prue.
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Toronto

Toronto mayor

In the City of Toronto, the most high-profile race was that for Mayor of Toronto in which incumbent June Rowlands was challenged by city councillor Barbara Hall, the first time a race for mayor had two female front-runners. Though the candidates were nominally independent, Rowlands was backed by the right-wing consisting of a coalition of right-wing Liberals and Progressive Conservatives while Hall was backed by New Democrats, left-wing Liberals, and Red Tories. Hall had been a member of the City NDP caucus on city council and had been an NDP candidate in the 1987 provincial election.
As a consequence of Jack Layton's failure to win the mayoralty as an official NDP candidate in the 1991 election, Hall preferred to run without a party label and included prominent Liberals such as George Smitherman on her campaign team.
Rowlands' tenure as mayor had resulted in criticism by many of her supporters, particularly those on the right. Her decision to ban the Barenaked Ladies, a rock band, from performing at Nathan Phillips Square because their name might be considered sexist was seen as both pandering to political correctness and evidence that she was out of touch with contemporary culture. Her allegedly slow response to a riot on Yonge Street following the acquittal of the police who beat Rodney King also made her appear out of touch.
Rowlands's campaign was hurt by the candidacy of Gerry Meinzer, a businessman and political novice who, though he never had the support or organization needed to win, succeeded in taking enough votes from the Rowlands' centre-right coalition to ensure her defeat.

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East York

All incumbents running were easily re-elected. Mayor Prue was challenged by former councillor Bob Willis who felt that Prue hadn't done a good job but he came up well short. Case Ootes in Ward 1 ran for a seat on Metro Council allowing Michael Tziretas to win his seat. Paul Robinson, John Antonopolous, and Tim Cholvat were also newcomers.
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Mayor

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North York

was re-elected mayor of the City. All incumbent councillors were re-elected except Judy Sgro who opted to run for Metro Council instead. Gina Severino replaced her as councillor for Ward 2.

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North York Board of Education
Ward 8 Gerri Gershon
Ward 9 Shelley Stillman

Scarborough

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Mayor

Ward 1 –
Roz Mendelson 57.5%
Ward 2 –
Joe Mihevc 35.4%
Ward 3 –
Rob Davis 45.2%
Ward 4 –
Joan Roberts 40.3%
Ward 5 –
Barry Rowland 44.4%
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Michael McDonald 74.5%
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Randy Leach 30.9%
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Bill Saundercook 2996 61.1%
Margo Duncan 1905 38.9%
Metro Councillor Ward 21 –
Caroline Di Giovanni
Metro Councillor Ward 22
Alan Tonks 13759 76.2%
Stuart Weinstein 4298 23.8%
School Board Ward 1
Ed Blackstock
School Board Ward 2
Pete Karageorgos
School Board Ward 3
Sam Wales
School Board Ward 4
Elizabeth Hill
School Board Ward 5
Joe Morriello
School Board Ward 6
Bonnie Taylor
School Board Ward 7
Bob Thomson
School Board Ward 8
Carl Miller