2018 Ontario Municipal Elections on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The 2018 municipal elections in Ontario were held on October 22, 2018.
Voters in the province of
The following are the results for Belleville.
The following are the results for Brockville.
The results for
Two councillors to be elected in each ward. Results for
The results for Kingston city council are as follows:
Two councillors were elected from each of the 5 wards.
Elections results for Quinte West city council are as follows:
The results for St. Thomas city council are as follows:
Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...
elected mayors, councillors, school board
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional area, ...
trustees and all other elected officials in all of the province's municipalities.
Electoral period
As per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, nomination papers for candidates for municipal and school board elections could be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period began. Nominations closed on July 27, 2018, at 2 PM local time. Certification of nomination papers was completed by 4 PM on July 30, 2018. Voting was on October 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM.Ranked ballots
In 2016, the provincial government passed Bill 181, the Municipal Elections Modernization Act, which permitted municipalities to adoptranked ballots
Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' Ordinal utility, rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked vote system depends only on voters' total order, order of preference of the cand ...
for municipal elections.
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
was the only municipality to use ranked ballots in the 2018 election itself, with the decision in that city being made by London City Council in 2017, while Kingston and Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 Unit ...
held referendums concurrently with their 2018 elections on whether to adopt ranked ballots for the next municipal elections in 2022. Both of the referendums passed, though neither reached the 50 per cent turnout required to make the results legally binding.
In 2020, the provincial government passed Bill 218, the Supporting Ontario's Recovery Act, which, among other things, eliminated the option of ranked balloting for municipalities. The City of London will now have to switch back to first-past-the-post for its 2022 municipal elections.
Online voting
The 2018 elections were also noted for a significant increase in the adoption of online voting. Across Ontario, over 150 municipalities conducted their elections primarily online, with physical polling stations either abandoned entirely or limited to only a few central polling stations for voters who could not or did not want to vote online. On election day, however, 51 of those municipalities, all of which had selected Dominion Voting Systems as their online voting contractor, were affected by a technical failure. According to Dominion the company'scolocation centre
A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or shortened to colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, ...
provider imposed a bandwidth cap, without authorization from or consultation with Dominion, due to the massive increase in voting traffic in the early evening, thus making it impossible for many voters to get through to the server between 5:00 and 7:30 p.m. All of the affected municipalities extended voting for at least a few hours to compensate for the outage; several, including Pembroke, Waterloo, Prince Edward County and Greater Sudbury
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and t ...
, opted to extend voting for a full 24 hours into the evening of October 23.
Counties
* 2018 Bruce County municipal elections * 2018 Dufferin County municipal elections * 2018 Elgin County municipal elections * 2018 Essex County municipal elections * 2018 Frontenac County municipal elections * 2018 Grey County municipal elections * 2018 Haliburton County municipal elections * 2018 Hastings County municipal elections * 2018 Huron County municipal elections * 2018 Lambton County municipal elections * 2018 Lanark County municipal elections * 2018 Leeds and Grenville United Counties municipal elections * 2018 Lennox and Addington County municipal elections * 2018 Middlesex County municipal elections * 2018 Northumberland County municipal elections * 2018 Perth County municipal elections * 2018 Peterborough County municipal elections * 2018 Prescott and Russell United Counties municipal elections * 2018 Renfrew County municipal elections * 2018 Simcoe County municipal elections * 2018 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties municipal elections * 2018 Wellington County municipal electionsRegional municipalities
* 2018 Durham Region municipal elections * 2018 Halton Region municipal elections * 2018 Muskoka District municipal elections * 2018 Niagara Region municipal elections * 2018 Oxford County municipal elections * 2018 Peel Region municipal elections * 2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections * 2018 York Region municipal electionsDistricts
* 2018 Algoma District municipal elections * 2018 Cochrane District municipal elections * 2018 Kenora District municipal elections * 2018 Manitoulin District municipal elections * 2018 Nipissing District municipal elections * 2018 Parry Sound District municipal elections * 2018 Rainy River District municipal elections * 2018 Sudbury District municipal elections * 2018 Thunder Bay District municipal elections * 2018 Timiskaming District municipal electionsSingle tier municipalities
Brant
Brantford
Chatham-Kent
Mayor
Chatham-Kent Municipal Council
The results forChatham-Kent
Chatham-Kent (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 103,988) is a Census divisions of Ontario#Single-tier municipalities, single-tier municipality in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is mostly rural, and its population centres are Chatham, Wallac ...
municipal council is as follows:
Greater Sudbury
Haldimand County
Mayor
Haldimand County Municipal Council
The results for Haldimand County Council are as follows:Hamilton
Kawartha Lakes
Mayor
Kawartha Lakes Municipal Council
For 2018, the Kawartha Lakes council will be reduced from 16 to 8 seats, plus the mayor. The results for Kawartha Lakes council are as follows:Norfolk County
The following are the results for Norfolk County.Mayor
Norfolk County Council
Norfolk County Council is the upper-tier Local government in England, local authority for Norfolk, England. Below it there are seven second-tier district councils: Breckland District, Breckland, Broadland, Borough of Great Yarmouth, Great Yarmo ...
There were some slight alterations to Norfolk County's ward map.
=By-election
= A by-election was held on June 3, 2021, in Ward 2 to fill the vacancy of Roger Geysens who retired.Ottawa
Prince Edward County
Mayor
The following are the results for Prince Edward County.Toronto
Separated municipalities
Barrie
Belleville
The following are the results for Belleville.Mayor
Councillors
Mayor
Councillors
Eight Councillors were elected.Cornwall
Mayor
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
city council are as follows:
Mayor
Guelph
Mayor
Guelph
Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as The Royal City, it is roughly east of Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Ontario Highway 6, ...
city council are as follows.
Kingston
Referendum
Referendum on ranked ballots. The "yes" side won decidedly with 62%, but the turnout to make the referendum binding did not reach the 50% mark. However, Kingston City Council has promised to pursue the matter anyway.Mayor
London
Mayor
Pelee
The results for Pelee Island were as follows:Mayor
Peterborough
The following are the results forPeterborough
Peterborough ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is north of London, on the River Nene. A ...
.
Mayor
Mayor
Mayor
Quinte West
Mayor
Smiths Falls
Smiths Falls is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, southwest of Ottawa. As of the 2021 census it has a population of 9,254. It is in the Census division for Lanark County, but is administratively separated from the county. The Rideau Canal ...
St. Thomas
Source:Mayor
Windsor
References
Notes
{{Ontario elections