2006 Ontario municipal elections



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.

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Candidates may have withdrawn from the race prior to November 13, 2006, and while their names may still have appeared on the ballot, voting for a withdrawn candidate resulted in a spoiled ballot and was not counted.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.

Barrie
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 article

Oshawa
Mayoral race

Ottawa
Mayoral race

Richmond Hill
Mayoral race Other races
 * See main article

St. Catharines
Mayoral race

Other races
 * See main article

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)