Durham Region municipal elections, 2010

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Elections were held in the Regional Municipality of Durham of Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.

Regional Municipality of Durham Regional municipality in Ontario, Canada

The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality located in the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario, east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, forming the east end of the Greater Toronto metropolitan area. It has an area of approximately 2,500 square kilometres. The regional government is headquartered in Whitby.

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Durham Regional Council

PositionElected
Ajax MayorSteve Parrish
Ajax Wards 1 & 2Shaun Collier
Ajax Wards 3 & 4Colleen Jordan
Brock Mayor Larry O'Connor
Brock CouncillorDebbie Bath
Clarington MayorAdrian Foster
Clarington Wards 1 & 2Mary Novak
Clarington Wards 3 & 4Willie Woo
Oshawa Mayor John Henry
Oshawa Councillor Nancy Diamond
Oshawa CouncillorNester Pidwerbecki
Oshawa CouncillorTito-Dante Marimpietri
Oshawa CouncillorJohn Neal
Oshawa CouncillorJohn R. Aker
Oshawa CouncillorAmy England
Oshawa CouncillorBob Chapman
Pickering MayorDave Ryan
Pickering Ward 1 Jennifer O'Connell
Pickering Ward 2Bill McLean
Pickering Ward 3Peter Rodrigues
Scugog MayorChuck Mercier
Scugog CouncillorBobbie Drew
Uxbridge MayorGerri Lynn O'Connor
Uxbridge CouncillorJack Ballinger
Whitby Mayor Pat Perkins
Whitby CouncillorDon Mitchell
Whitby Councillor Lorne Earle Coe
Whitby CouncillorJoe Drumm

Plebiscite

Are you in favour of the Council of the Regional Municipality of Durham passing the necessary resolutions and by-laws to change the method of selecting its Chair from appointment by the members of Regional Council to election by general vote of all electors in the Region?

Option Vote%
Yes95,37779.70
No24,28920.30

Ajax

The following are the official results for the Town of Ajax. [1]

Mayor

CandidateVote%
Steve Parish (X)13,54179.08
Sherry Clymer3,58220.92

Brock

Larry O'Connor, the incumbent mayor of Brock, was reelected by a margin of just 13 votes over challenger Terry Clayton, who had previously been mayor of the township from 2000 to 2003. The narrow margin resulted in an ongoing judicial recount battle; [2] the township used a mail-in voting system in 2010, and when ballots which were postmarked before election day but arrived late were counted, O'Connor's margin of victory was reduced to just three votes. [2]

Larry O'Connor is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was the mayor of the township of Brock, Ontario from 2006 to 2011. He was also a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.

Brock, Ontario Township in Ontario, Canada

Brock is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. Brock Township is also a former municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality.

Postal voting voting, election, ballot papers, distributed to electors or returned by post, mail

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O'Connor voluntarily resigned as mayor on March 28, 2011, [3] and the township council subsequently appointed Clayton as the new mayor. [4]

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Larry O'Connor (X)2,33950.14
Terry Clayton2,32649.86

Clarington

The following are the official results for the Municipality of Clarington. [5]

Mayor

CandidateVote%
Adrian Foster6,90535.51
Jim Abernethy (x)6,13531.55
Paul Adams5,74029.52
Jeremy Woodcock6643.42

Regional Councillors

Two Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.

CandidateVote%
Wards 1 & 2
Mary Novak4,11339.15
Don MacArthur3,47533.08
Lynn McCullough2,91727.77
Wards 3 & 4
Willie Woo5,96070.73
Gord Robinson2,35427.93
Carl Zmozynski1131.34

Local Councillors

Four Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.

CandidateVote%
Ward 1
Joe Neal2,04636.73
Oudit Rai1,21621.83
Mark Stanisz73313.16
Steven Conway59010.59
Paul Powers57010.23
Karen Hills3015.40
Donald Baragar1152.06
Ward 2
Ron Hooper4,06782.26
Steve Rowland51110.34
Kenneth Finney3667.40
Ward 3
Corinna Traill1,69443.69
Tracey Ali1,01226.10
Mark Canning63516.38
Steve Simic53613.83
Ward 4
Wendy Partner1,18327.85
Tim Tufts92521.77
Robert Jackson59213.94
Cecil Mackesey58113.28
Dean Perrin56413.28
Chris Brown3257.65
Robert Willett781.84

Oshawa

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
John G. Henry 15,26846.58
John Gray (X)8,97327.37
Louise V. Parkes3,94112.02
Cathy Clarke2,9599.02
Bill Longworth1,3834.21
Eve E. Simson1370.41
Dale Jodoin1150.35

Pickering

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Dave Ryan (X)10,36151.21
Maurice Brenner8,66142.80
Ken W. Nash1,2125.99

Scugog

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Chuck Mercier4,69055.95
Jim McMillen3,69244.05

Uxbridge

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Gerri Lynn O'Connor4,29353.04
Bob Shepherd (X)3,15038.92
George Apostolou6518.04

Whitby

Mayoral Candidate Vote%
Pat Perkins (X)12,06447.55
Rocky Varcoe8,98735.42
Marcel Brunelle4,32217.03

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References

  1. https://www.ajax.ca/en/insidetownhall/resources/electionresults-official-2010.pdf
  2. 1 2 Carola Vyhnak (15 February 2011). "Political soap opera ripping Brock apart". Toronto Star . Retrieved March 3, 2011.
  3. "Mayor Larry O'Connor resigns". mykawartha.com, March 29, 2011.
  4. "Clayton appointed mayor". mykawartha.com, May 2, 2011.
  5. https://weblink.clarington.net/WebLink/DocView.aspx?dbid=0&id=28581&page=1&cr=1