Toronto municipal election, 2000

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Toronto mayoral election, 2000
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  1997 November 13, 2000 2003  
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Candidate Mel Lastman Tooker Gomberg
Popular vote483,27751,111
Percentage79.96%8.46%

Mayor of Toronto before election

Mel Lastman

Elected Mayor of Toronto

Mel Lastman

The Toronto municipal election of 2000, dubbed "Toronto Vote 2000" was the municipal and school board election held in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2000.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

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Elections were held to elect:

Mayor of Toronto

The Mayor of Toronto is the leader of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The mayor is directly-elected in municipal elections every four years alongside Toronto City Council. The mayor is responsible for the administration of government services, the composition of councils and committees overseeing Toronto government departments and serves as the chairperson for meeting of Toronto City Council.

Toronto District School Board public school system of Toronto, Ontario

The Toronto District School Board is the English-language public-secular school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The minority public-secular francophone, public-separate anglophone, and public-separate francophone communities of Toronto also have their own publicly funded school boards and schools that operate in the same area, but which are independent of the TDSB. Its headquarters are in the district of North York. The TDSB is Canada's largest school board and the fourth largest school board in North America.

Toronto Catholic District School Board Catholic separate school board in Toronto, Canada

The Toronto Catholic District School Board is an English-language public-separate school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada, headquartered in North York. It is one of the two English boards of education in the City of Toronto, serving the former municipalities of Scarborough, North York, York, East York, Old Toronto and Etobicoke. With 85,864 students, the TCDSB is one of the largest school boards in Canada, and is the largest publicly funded Catholic school board in the world. Until 1998, it was known as the Metropolitan Separate School Board (MSSB) as an anglophone and francophone separate school district.

Mayoralty election

Results

Mayor, City of Toronto
1,992 of 1,992 polls reporting
NameVotesPercent
Mel Lastman 483,27779.96%
Tooker Gomberg 51,1118.46%
Enza Anderson 13,5952.25%
Douglas Campbell8,5911.42%
Steven Lam6,8531.13%
Hazel Jackson5,3100.87%
Kevin Clarke 4,1470.68%
Daniel Carras3,5340.58%
Ben Kerr 3,1150.52%
Marcos Solorzano2,4190.40%
Tim Duncan2,2530.37%
Diana-De Maxted2,1280.36%
Brian Fisher1,8170.30%
David Predovich1,6870.28%
Duri Naimji1,6400.27%
Victor Fraser1,6380.27%
Frenchie McFarlane1,6350.27%
George Dowar1,4300.24%
John Steele1,4120.23%
Dave Du Moulin1,2040.19%
Josef Klinghoffer1,1310.18%
King Siu1,1040.18%
Kevin Richardson1,0650.17%
Abel Van Wyk1,0050.16%
Kevin Knopman6700.11%
Thomas Shipley6230.10%
Totals604,394100%

City council

The 2000 ward map Torontowards.PNG
The 2000 ward map

The city council elections were eventful. Redistricting increased the number of wards from 28 to 44, but each ward only elected a single councillor, reducing the number of councillors from 56 to 44. This created several battles between incumbents such as Gloria Lindsay Luby against Mario Giansante, David Miller versus Bill Saundercook, and Milton Berger against Anne Johnston. For the most part, incumbents were re-elected: the major exception was Etobicoke where three incumbents -- Blake Kinahan, Elizabeth Brown, and Bruce Sinclair —were defeated. Over all, the elections shifted the council somewhat to the left.

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Ward 1 - Etobicoke North:

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Ward 2 - Etobicoke North:

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Ward 3 - Etobicoke Centre:

Ward 4 - Etobicoke Centre:

Ward 5 - Etobicoke—Lakeshore:

Ward 6 - Etobicoke—Lakeshore:

Ward 7 - York West:

2000 Toronto municipal election, Councillor, Ward Eight edit
CandidateTotal votes% of total votesNotes
(x)Peter Li Preti 5,36356.49
Anthony Perruzza 4,13143.51
Total valid votes9,494100.00

Ward 9 - York Centre:

Ward 10 - York Centre:

Ward 11 - York South—Weston:

Ward 12 - York South—Weston:

2000 Toronto municipal election, Councillor, Ward Thirteen edit
CandidateTotal votes% of total votesNotes
(x)David Miller 11,27461.71
(x)Bill Saundercook 6,99538.29
Total valid votes18,269100.00

Ward 14 - Parkdale-High Park:

2000 Toronto municipal election, Councillor, Ward Fifteen edit
CandidateTotal votes% of total votesNotes
(x)Howard Moscoe 8,61157.70
Tony Rizzo 4,98433.40
Jim McMillan9246.19
Jason Baker4052.71
Total valid votes14,924100.00

Ward 16 - Eglinton—Lawrence:

Ward 17 - Davenport:

Ward 18 - Davenport:

Ward 19 - Trinity—Spadina:

Ward 20 - Trinity—Spadina:

  • (x) Olivia Chow 9,477
  • Rosie Schwartz 1,140
  • Roberto Verdecchia 1,126

Ward 21 - St. Paul's:

Ward 22 - St. Paul's:

Ward 23 - Willowdale:

Ward 24 - Willowdale:

Ward 25 - Don Valley West:

Ward 26 - Don Valley West:

Ward 27 - Toronto Centre—Rosedale:

Ward 28 - Toronto Centre—Rosedale:

  • (x) Pam McConnell 7,573
  • Jennifer Daly 1,630
  • Wendy Forrest 1,038
  • Mike Armstrong 1,027
  • Nichola Marshall 748
  • James Sturdy 415
  • Aaron Hume 363

Ward 29 - Broadview—Greenwood:

Ward 30 - Broadview—Greenwood:

  • (x) Jack Layton 8,671
  • Linda Lynch 3,750
  • Ty Daniels 817
  • Jeff Layton 627
  • Ghuffar Rabbani 523
  • Joseph Norte 126

Ward 31 - Beaches—East York:

Ward 32 - Beaches—East York:

  • (x) Sandra Bussin 10,766
  • David Moll 5,530
  • Paul Azzarello 419
  • Bruce Bryer 388
  • Jeffery Dorman 309

Ward 33 - Don Valley East:

  • Paul Sutherland 9,860
  • Daniel Georgescu 1,004
  • Thomas Lynch 996
  • Robert Ladanyi 458

Ward 34 - Don Valley East:

Ward 35 - Scarborough Southwest:

Ward 36 - Scarborough Southwest:

Ward 37 - Scarborough Centre:

Ward 38 - Scarborough Centre:

Ward 39 - Scarborough—Agincourt:

Ward 40 - Scarborough—Agincourt:

Ward 41 - Scarborough—Rouge River:

Ward 42 - Scarborough—Rouge River:

  • (x) Raymond Cho 7,428
  • Eden Gajraj 2,101
  • Horace Dockery 1,890
  • Pat Johnson 562

Ward 43 - Scarborough East:

Ward 44 - Scarborough East:

  • (x) Ron Moeser 9,897
  • Sheila White 3,568
  • Jeff Phillips 1,530

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