Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2003

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The Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2003 was held in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada on 10 November 2003. All municipal elections in the province of Ontario are held on the same date; see Ontario municipal elections, 2003 for elections in other cities.

Greater Sudbury City in Ontario, Canada

Greater Sudbury, commonly referred to as Sudbury, is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 161,531 at the Canada 2016 Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a single-tier municipality, and thus not part of any district, county, or regional municipality.

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The election chose the mayor and city councillors who would sit on Greater Sudbury City Council from 2003 to 2006.

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.

Greater Sudbury City Council

Greater Sudbury City Council is the governing body of the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

Issues

The primary issue in the 2003 elections was the municipal amalgamation of 2001. Prior to 1 January 2001, the current city of Greater Sudbury consisted of seven separate municipalities, together comprising the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On that date, the provincial government of Ontario dissolved all seven former municipalities and the regional government, merging them all into the current city government.

Under longtime mayor Jim Gordon, the preceding city council — the first to govern the amalgamated city — had struggled to pull the new city together, with soaring costs and deterioration of public services that had not been foreseen by the provincial government when the amalgamation was legislated. Voter anger was directed primarily at the provincial government of Mike Harris rather than the city council, although the council was criticized for some of the budgeting decisions it made, such as closing many municipally-owned recreational facilities.

James K. Gordon is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Sudbury, Ontario from 1976 to 1981 and from 1991 to 2003, and as a Member of Provincial Parliament for the provincial electoral district of Sudbury from 1981 to 1987. He briefly served in the Executive Council of Ontario, holding the position of Minister of Government Services in 1985.

Mike Harris Canadian politician

Michael Deane "Mike" Harris is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 14, 2002. He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government spending.

Ward boundaries

When the current city of Greater Sudbury was created in 2001, the city was divided into six wards, each of which was represented by two councillors. This structure was controversial, as some voters felt that the division of responsibility among councillors was vague and ill-defined — it could, for example, be unclear which of the two ward councillors to approach in regards to a political issue.

In 2005, the city council adopted a new ward structure, in which the city would now be divided into twelve wards with a single councillor per ward. The new ward structure was implemented for the first time in the 2006 municipal election.

Results

Mayoral race

Incumbent mayor Jim Gordon did not run for reelection in 2003. As a result of his retirement, the mayoral race attracted an unexpectedly large field of 14 candidates. This was the second largest slate of mayoral candidates of any Ontario city in this election cycle — Toronto was the only city in the province with more candidates for mayor. The race was generally perceived, however, to have two leading candidates: David Courtemanche, an incumbent city councillor, and Paul Marleau, a businessman and the husband of the city's federal Member of Parliament Diane Marleau.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

David Courtemanche is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the former mayor of Greater Sudbury, having served one term from 2003 to 2006.

Diane Marleau, was a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Sudbury in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2008, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. Marleau was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

2003 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Mayor of Greater Sudbury edit
Candidate Total votes % of total votes Notes
David Courtemanche 19,152 35.56
Paul Marleau 11,360 21.10
Colin Firth 8,096 15.03
Louise Portelance 5,645 10.48
John Caruso 4,693 8.71
Tom Boyuk 1,930 3.58
Brian R. Gatien 1,280 2.38
Richard Doyon 667 1.24
Mary Fournier Pagnutti 405 0.75
David Chevrier 271 0.50
Yvonne Neison 141 0.26
Robert Maurice 102 0.19
Ed Pokonzie 67 0.12
David Popescu 42 0.08
Total valid votes53,851100.00

Ward 1

Two to be elected.

CandidateVotes%
Terry Kett 5,028 31.64
(x) Eldon Gainer 4,095 25.77
Joe Cimino 3,582 22.54
(x) Gerry McIntaggart 3,187 20.05
Total valid votes 15,982

Ward 2

Two to be elected.

CandidateVotes%
Claude Berthiaume 3,815 23.99
Ron Bradley 3,679 23.13
Evelyn Dutrisac 3,067 19.28
Claude Gravelle 2,178 13.69
Carol-Ann Coupal 1,456 9.15
Bill Hedderson 1,074 6.75
Andrew Fahey 635 3.99
Total valid votes 15,904

Ward 3

Two to be elected.

CandidateVotes%
Ron Dupuis 4,355 30.69
André Rivest 3,098 21.83
Jean-Yves (John) Robert 3,065 21.60
Joe Niceforo 1,865 13.14
Robert Boileau 1,224 8.63
Maurice Sarrazin 583 4.11
Total valid votes 14,190

Ward 4

Two to be elected.

CandidateVotes%
Russ Thompson 3,315 23.57
Ted Callaghan 2,360 16.78
Rick Grylls 1,689 12.01
Daniel Gingras 1,629 11.58
Fabio Belli 1,517 10.79
Maurice Lamoureux 1,102 7.84
Tony Sharma 1,060 7.54
Jim Lanzo 1,022 7.27
Sean Peters 189 1.34
Harry Will 179 1.27
Total valid votes 14,062

Ward 5

Two to be elected.

CandidateVotes%
Doug Craig 5,226 30.05
Frances Caldarelli 3,926 22.57
Austin Davey 3,619 20.81
Jason Bubba 1,948 11.20
Fern Cormier 1,711 9.84
Neil Faddis 963 5.54
Total valid votes 17,393

Ward 6

Two to be elected.

CandidateVotes%
Janet Gasparini 3,923 25.81
Lynne Reynolds 2,642 17.38
Jim Ilnitski 2,565 16.87
Mike Petryna 2,379 15.65
Rick Villeneuve 1,552 10.21
Eric Thériault 604 3.97
Richard Madison 568 3.74
Jeff MacIntyre 411 2.70
Shawn Ouimet 294 1.93
Jerry O'Brien 263 1.73
Total valid votes 15,201

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