2010 Ontario municipal elections


Municipal elections were held in Ontario, Canada, on October 25, 2010. Voters in Ontario elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of the province's municipalities. A total of 444 elections were held. Several smaller municipalities in Northern Ontario held no council elections, as their entire councils were acclaimed into office, although the towns still saw contested elections for their school board seats.

Voting date

Notwithstanding advance polling arrangements, municipal elections were held on the fourth Monday of October. From 1978 until 2006 the second Monday of November was the fixed date.

Nomination period

Candidate registration opened on January 4, 2010 and ended on September 10.

Term lengths

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario legislation, passed in 2006, sets the length of terms in office for all municipal elected officials at four years.

Campaigns in major cities

The Toronto municipal election saw an open contest for mayor, due to the retirement of David Miller after two terms. In Ottawa, former MPP and Mayor Jim Watson ran against incumbent Larry O'Brien, who was cleared of bribery charges in 2009.
Some media, including a Sudbury Star editorial which was republished in several other Sun Media newspapers, noted the seeming emergence of a Tea Party mentality in some parts of the province, with a number of self-styled "outsider" or populist candidates - including Rob Ford in Toronto, Joe Fontana in London, David D'Intino in St. Catharines, Rob Matheson in Kingston, Ron Schinners in Sault Ste. Marie and Marianne Matichuk in Greater Sudbury - campaigning on platforms that traded heavily in mistrust of the existing municipal governments.

Single tier municipalities

Brant County">County of Brant">Brant County

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Ron Eddy 3,18733.65
Steve Comisky3,04832.18
John Weaver1,69517.89
Roy Haggart1,15512.19
Shawn Pratt3874.09

[Brantford]

[Chatham-Kent]

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Randy Hope 13,16940.87
Tom McGregor10,95634.00
Ian McLarty6,60820.51
Austin Wright7652.37
Mary Kwong Lee5491.70
Allan R. Traylor1710.53

[Greater Sudbury]

Mayoral CandidateVote%
Marianne Matichuk25,04246.1
John Rodriguez 19,81936.5
Ted Callaghan7,29813.4
Derek Young1,4322.6
Zack Gauthier3900.7
Dennis Gorman1670.3
Ed Pokonzie1020.2
David Popescu960.2
Total valid votes54,346

[Haldimand County]

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Ken Hewitt6,98444.6
Marie Trainer 5,74836.7
Buck Sloat2,92918.7

Hamilton">Hamilton, Ontario">Hamilton

[Kawartha Lakes]

Norfolk County">Norfolk County, Ontario">Norfolk County

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Dennis Travale 11,01866.24
Clarence Wheaton5,61533.76

[Ottawa]

Mayoral CandidateVote%
Jim Watson131,25848.70
Larry O'Brien 64,85324.06
Clive Doucet40,14714.89
Andrew S. Haydon18,9047.01
Mike Maguire6,6172.45
Robert Gauthier1,4130.52
Jane Scharf1,1690.43
Charlie Taylor1,1250.42
Cesar Bello9260.34
Idris Ben-Tahir7290.27
Samuel Wright3710.14
Robin Lawrence3000.11
Joseph Furtenbacher2990.11
Sean Ryan3600.13
Julio Pita2650.10
Robert Larter2190.08
Michael St. Arnaud2000.07
Daniel J. Lyrette1660.06
Vincent M. Libeshya1220.05
Fraser Liscumb1040.04

Prince Edward County">Prince Edward County, Ontario">Prince Edward County

[Toronto]

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Rob Ford380,201 47.098
George Smitherman287,39335.602
Joe Pantalone94,840 11.749
Rocco Rossi4,973 0.616
George Babula3,242 0.402
Rocco Achampong2,781 0.345
Abdullah-Baquie Ghazi2,746 0.34
Michael Alexander2,452 0.304
Vijay Sarma2,2330.277
Sarah Thomson1,8760.232
Jaime Castillo1,8620.231
Dewitt Lee1,6850.209
Douglas Campbell1,420 0.176
Kevin Clarke1,4000.173
Joseph Pampena 1,3080.162
David Epstein 1,1980.148
Monowar Hossain1,1860.147
Michael Flie1,1780.146
Don Andrews1,023 0.127
Weizhen Tang8850.11
Daniel Walker7950.098
Keith Cole7940.098
Michael Brausewetter7910.098
Barry Goodhead7360.091
Charlene Cottle7300.09
Tibor Steinberger7290.09
Christopher Ball6900.085
James Di Fiore6490.08
Diane Devenyi6270.078
John Letonja5870.073
Himy Syed5760.071
Carmen Macklin5650.07
Howard Gomberg4720.058
David Vallance4420.055
Mark State4330.054
Phil Taylor4250.053
Colin Magee3970.049
Selwyn Firth3920.049
Ratan Wadhwa2880.036
Gerald Derome2490.031

Regional municipalities

Durham">Durham Region, Ontario">Durham

Halton">Halton Region, Ontario">Halton

[Muskoka [District Municipality, Ontario|Muskoka District]]

Niagara">Regional Municipality of Niagara">Niagara

Oxford">Oxford County, Ontario">Oxford

Peel">Peel Region, Ontario">Peel

Waterloo">Waterloo Region, Ontario">Waterloo

York">York Region, Ontario">York

Counties

Bruce">Bruce County">Bruce

Dufferin">Dufferin County, Ontario">Dufferin

Elgin">Elgin County, Ontario">Elgin

Essex">Essex County, Ontario">Essex

Frontenac">Frontenac County, Ontario">Frontenac

Grey">Grey County">Grey

Haliburton">Haliburton County, Ontario">Haliburton

Hastings">Hastings County">Hastings

Huron">Huron County, Ontario">Huron

Lambton">Lambton County">Lambton

Lanark">Lanark County, Ontario">Lanark

Leeds and Grenville">Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario">Leeds and Grenville

Lennox and Addington">Lennox and Addington County, Ontario">Lennox and Addington

Middlesex">Middlesex County, Ontario">Middlesex

Northumberland">Northumberland County, Ontario">Northumberland

Perth">Perth County, Ontario">Perth

Peterborough">Peterborough County, Ontario">Peterborough

Prescott and Russell">Prescott and Russell United Counties, Ontario">Prescott and Russell

Renfrew">Renfrew County, Ontario">Renfrew

Simcoe">Simcoe County">Simcoe

Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry">Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties, Ontario">Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry

Wellington">Wellington County, Ontario">Wellington

Separated municipalities

[Barrie]

Belleville">Belleville, Ontario">Belleville

[Brockville]

Gananoque">Gananoque, Ontario">Gananoque

[Guelph]

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Karen Farbridge 14,90254.1
David Birtwistle10,57638.4
Ray Mitchell1,1824.3
Scott Nightingale8783.2

Kingston">Kingston, Ontario">Kingston

London">London, Ontario">London

[Orillia]

Pembroke">Pembroke, Ontario">Pembroke

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Ed Jacyno 2,80366.7
Stanley E. Sambey1,39833.3

Peterborough">Peterborough, Ontario">Peterborough

Prescott">Prescott, Ontario">Prescott

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Brett Todd91362.5
Suzanne Dodge 54737.5

[Quinte West]

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
John R. Williams 8,15994.0
Claudor du-Lude5226.0

Smiths Falls">Smiths Falls, Ontario">Smiths Falls

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Dennis Staples 1,92550.9
Jeffrey G. Keays1,85749.1

St. Marys">St. Marys, Ontario">St. Marys

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Steve Grose1,76762.4
Jamie Hahn 98934.9
Eric Farquhar762.7

St. Thomas">St. Thomas, Ontario">St. Thomas

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Heather Jackson-Chapman3,66637.7
Cliff Barwick 3,15832.4
Albert Riddell2,91029.9

Stratford">Stratford, Ontario">Stratford

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Dan Mathieson 7,85779.2
Martin Weatherall2,06120.8

Windsor">Windsor, Ontario">Windsor

Districts

Algoma District">Algoma District, Ontario">Algoma District

Cochrane District">Cochrane District, Ontario">Cochrane District

Kenora District">Kenora District, Ontario">Kenora District

Manitoulin District">Manitoulin District, Ontario">Manitoulin District

[Nipissing District]

Parry Sound District">Parry Sound District, Ontario">Parry Sound District

Rainy River District">Rainy River District, Ontario">Rainy River District

[Sudbury District]

[Thunder Bay District]

[Timiskaming District]

In fiction

The 2010 first season of the TV sitcom Dan for Mayor takes place during the municipal election in the fictional city of Wessex.