2006 Brampton municipal election


The Brampton municipal election, 2006 took place on 13 November 2006, to elect a mayor, five regional councillors and five city councillors in the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It was held in conjunction with all other municipalities in Ontario. See 2006 Ontario municipal elections.
It was referred to as CityVote 2006 by the City's website.
The nomination period ended on Friday 29 September 2006; thirty candidates registered in the two weeks prior. Six candidates withdrew after this point, before the cut-off of 5 pm Monday. There was a total of 96 candidates running for political office.
Over the various days of voting, 68,186 Brampton residents cast ballots; there were 226,869 registered voters in the city at the time. This means there was a 30.8% turn-out.

Candidates

Mayor

Results

Profiles

Susan Fennell (incumbent)
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Sunny Gandhi
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Amjid Iqbal
, stating Iqbal did not participate in interviews.
John R.A. Moulton
Raj Sharda
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Media participation

Regional council

Long-time incumbent Elaine Moore had three people interested in replacing her as Regional Councillor; she won her re-election with a strong majority.
CandidateVote%
Bill Bousfield6926.69
Janet Hamilton162015.67
Tejinder Lamba8478.19
Elaine Moore, incumbent, winner 718269.45

City council

Incumbent Grant Gibson had six candidates challenging his re-election; he was re-elected by over half of participating voters. Gibson had held the seat for more than a decade, as of the election day.
Among his challengers was Stephanie Beaumier, daughter of Brampton West MP Colleen Beaumier. As he dropped out of the campaign after nomination lists were finalised, Malcolm Jones' name still appeared on the ballots. Despite no longer officially running, he took fourth place, out of seven.
CandidateVote%
Stephanie Beaumier 321530.84
Grant Gibson, incumbent, winner533551.17
Malcolm Jones 3203.07
Larry Lee 2562.46
Jeffrey Schrik 1941.86
Jagtar Shergill 10349.92
Whoston Wray720.69

Wards 2, 6

Regional council

One of the longest sitting incumbents, Paul Palleschi had five people attempting to take him out of office. Palleschi received roughly 45% of the vote.
CandidateVote%
Vicky Colbourne 176714.00
David Esho 5484.34
Curtis Grant 165313.10
Chuck Jeffrey 139611.06
Paul Palleschi, incumbent, winner576645.68
Tejinder Singh149311.83

City council

Incumbent John Hutton had ten candidates challenging his re-election, the most of any riding. Due to the berth of competition, he was only re-elected with 27% support. Among the challengers was Doug Whillans, son of Ken Whillans, a former Brampton mayor. As of election day, Hutton had held the seat for 21 years.
CandidateVote%
Derrick Coke 176813.70
Jassi Dhillon1851.43
Navdeep Gill 179013.87
Ralph Irving Greene146611.36
Jim Howell5354.15
John A. Hutton, incumbent, winner355227.53
Adrian Avinash Lalla450.35
Paul Mangat1421.10
Mathew Njenga 4543.52
Joyce Rodriguez 11759.11
Doug Whillans 179213.89

Wards 3, 4

Regional council

Businessman and 2005 Brampton Citizen of the Year John Sanderson beat incumbent Susan DiMarco. One of four challengers, Sanderson had previous run and lost for the same ward in 2003. With a mere 292 votes dividing them, the race between Sanderson and DiMarco was the last to be declared in all of Peel.
CandidateVote%
Tibor Bankuti1811.22
Susan DiMarco, incumbent 543136.60
Theo Goary4633.12
John Sanderson, winner 572338.56
Sukhwant Thethi 304220.50

City council

Incumbent Bob Callahan easily won this race. Once an MPP, Callahan won over his nearest competitor by 33.36%.
Babra's second-place finish was unexpected, as while he participated in a Brampton Guardian interview, he did not reply to The Toronto Star or The Brampton News/Wikinews. His email address was inactive throughout the duration of his campaign.
CandidateVote%
Balbir Babra321221.94
Manny Bianchi-Morfino2641.80
Bob Callahan, incumbent, winner809455.30
Dolly Khokhar2891.97
Maria Peart5854.00
Tim Turcott2511.71
Innocent Watat610.42
Sheila White 188112.85

Wards 7, 8

Regional council

Long-time incumbent Gael Miles easily won the election for regional councillor, against political newcomer John Villella.
CandidateVote%
Gael Miles, incumbent 1107187.67
John Villella 155712.33

City council

Incumbent Sandra Hames won with little trouble, garnering also three out of every four votes.
CandidateVote%
Khalid Alvi as "K. Alvi", ran in 2003 election for city wards 7 & 810698.49
Tom Armstrong126910.07
Sandra Hames, incumbent 931773.96
Vaughn Parker2121.68
John B. Spry, ran in 2003 election for wards 9 & 10.7305.80

Wards 9, 10

Regional council

Incumbent John Sprovieri had six candidates challenging his re-election, which he won with 44.91% support. Among the challengers is Derek Begley, son of retired regional councillor Rhoda Begley. Johal is known in the ward as a star candidate.
CandidateVote%
Derek Begley 13648.25
Sherdaljit Dhillon214812.99
Mahen Gupta7604.60
Satpaul Johal370722.42
Dalbir S. Kathuria9956.02
Vahid Saadati-Khanshir1330.80
John Sprovieri, incumbent, winner 742544.91

City council

Garnett Manning had five people contesting his seat, which he eventually lost to Vicky Dhillon. Manning had beat Dhillon by a slim amount in the 2003 election. At time of election, Dhillon was the Brampton—Springdale riding association president for the Liberal Party of Canada ; it is unknown if he will retain this position. Among the other candidates was Daljit Gill, a one-term Peel District School Board trustee.
CandidateVote%
Stella Ambler 402923.80
Mandeep Dhaliwal 287917.01
Vicky Dhillon, winner 470027.77
Daljit Gill6203.66
Nalem Malik4392.59
Garnett Manning, incumbent 425925.16

[Peel District School Board]

The Peel District School Board runs a about its trustees and their roles.

Wards 1, 3

There is no incumbent in these wards, as one-term trustee Daljit Gill is running for city council.
Beryl Ford is the only person elected by acclamation to any political seat in Brampton; this is her eighth term as a trustee.

Wards 1, 3, 4

There is no incumbent in these wards.
Debates in this ward received extremely small audiences. Eleven, then six people showed up to two separate evenings.
There is no incumbent in these wards.
None of the incumbents are seeking re-election
CandidateVote%
Mark David de Pelham5346.90
Christine Guindy6053.10

[Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud]

CandidateVote%
Anne Burke-Gauthier18355.29
Yvonne Musau Kabeya6519.64
Rene Riopel8325.08