2018 Ontario municipal elections


The 2018 municipal elections in Ontario were held on October 22, 2018.
Voters in the province of Ontario elected mayors, councillors, school board 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 can be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period will begin.
Nominations close on July 27, 2018 at 2 PM local time. Certification of nomination papers is to be completed by 4 PM on July 30, 2018.
Voting starts 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 adopt ranked ballots for municipal elections.
London 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 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, although the adoption of ranked ballots in both cities may remain in question as the referendums failed to reach the 50 per cent turnout required to make the results legally binding.

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's colocation centre 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, opted to extend voting for a full 24 hours into the evening of October 23.

Counties

Brant

Brantford

Chatham-Kent

Mayor

[Chatham-Kent Municipal Council]

The results for Chatham-Kent 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

Municipal Councillors

There were some slight alterations to Norfolk County's ward map.

Ottawa

Prince Edward County

Mayor

The following are the results for Prince Edward County.
CandidateVote%
Steve Ferguson4,98150.17
Dianne O'Brien4,04340.72
Richard Whiten9049.11

Toronto

Separated municipalities

Barrie

Mayor

Source:

[Barrie City Council]

The results for Barrie City Council are as follows:
By-election
A by-election was held on February 24, 2020 in Ward 3 to fill the vacancy of Doug Shipley who was elected to the House of Commons. Results:
CandidateVote%
Ann-Marie Kungl54229.42
Tanya Saari42723.18
Devin Scully30816.72
Kelly Patterson McGrath23412.70
Gerry Marshall1769.55
Ram Faerber1055.70
Peter Silveira311.68
Stephen James Ciesielski191.03

Belleville

The following are the results for Belleville.

Mayor

Councillors

Brockville">Brockville, Ontario">Brockville

The following are the results for Brockville.

Mayor

Councillors

Eight Councillors were elected.
CandidateVote%
Matt Wren4,4328.83
Cameron Wales4,1198.21
Mike Kalivas 4,0548.08
Jane Fullarton 3,8067.59
Larry Journal3,1266.23
Jeffrey Earle 3,0436.07
Nathalie Lavergne2,9935.97
Leigh Bursey 2,8435.67
Joy Sterritt2,8305.64
Jessica Barabash2,7595.50
Philip Deery2,5335.05
Naomi McNeill1,9673.92
Bud Eyre1,6063.20
Tony Barnes1,4862.96
Mark Darrah1,4442.88
Willy Stevenson1,4362.86
John Henderson1,3862.76
Robert Shannon1,3602.71
Matthew Blair1,0592.11
Jeff Severson1,0142.02
Ralph Legere8231.64

Cornwall

Mayor

[Cornwall City Council]

The results for Cornwall city council are as follows:

[Gananoque]

Mayor

Guelph

Mayor

[Guelph City Council]

Two councillors to be elected in each ward. Results for Guelph 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.
ChoiceVote%
Yes20,64262.00
No12,16137.00

Mayor

[Kingston City Council]

The results for Kingston city council are as follows:

London

Orillia">Orillia, Ontario">Orillia

Mayor

Pelee

The results for Pelee Island were as follows:

Mayor

Peterborough

The following are the results for Peterborough.

Mayor

Councillors">Peterborough, Ontario City Council">Councillors

Two councillors were elected from each of the 5 wards.

Pembroke">Pembroke, Ontario">Pembroke

Mayor

Prescott">Prescott, Ontario">Prescott

Mayor

Quinte West

Mayor

[Quinte West City Council]

Elections results for Quinte West city council are as follows:

St. Marys">St. Marys, Ontario">St. Marys

Stratford">Stratford, Ontario">Stratford

[Smiths Falls]

St. Thomas

Source:

Mayor

[St. Thomas City Council]

The results for St. Thomas city council are as follows:

Windsor