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2018 York Region municipal elections

Elections in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, were held on October 22, 2018, in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.

Incumbents are marked with "(X)".

2018 York Region municipal election
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October 22, 2018
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Incumbent Council

(2014)


Map of York Region and the municipalities it includes.

York Regional Council

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PositionRepresentingCouncillorNotes
ChairWayne Emmerson
CouncillorAuroraTom MrakasMayor of Aurora
CouncillorEast GwillimburyVirginia HacksonMayor of East Gwillimbury
CouncillorGeorginaMargaret QuirkMayor of Georgina
CouncillorGeorginaRob Grossi
CouncillorKingSteve Pellegrini (acclaimed)Mayor of King
CouncillorMarkhamFrank ScarpittiMayor of Markham
CouncillorMarkhamDon Hamilton
CouncillorMarkhamJack Heath
CouncillorMarkhamJoe Li
CouncillorMarkhamJim Jones
CouncillorNewmarketJohn TaylorMayor of Newmarket
CouncillorNewmarketTom Vegh
CouncillorRichmond HillDave BarrowMayor of Richmond Hill
CouncillorRichmond HillJoe DiPaola
CouncillorRichmond HillCarmine Perelli
CouncillorVaughanMaurizio BevilacquaMayor of Vaughan
CouncillorVaughanMario Ferri
CouncillorVaughanGino Rosati
CouncillorVaughanLinda D. Jackson
CouncillorWhitchurch–StouffvilleIain LovettMayor of Whitchurch–Stouffville

Regional chair

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The election was to be the first-ever direct election of the York Regional chair, but it was cancelled by the Ontario Government's passing of the Better Local Government Act.[1][2][3]

Aurora

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Source for results:[4]

Mayor

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Mayoral candidate Vote %
Tom Mrakas4,78138.33
Geoff Dawe (X)3,53328.33
Chris Ballard2,47519.84
John Abel1,68413.50

Aurora Town Council

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Six to be elected[5][4]

Councillor Candidate Vote %
Harold Kim (X)6,01310.75
Wendy Gaertner (X)5,87510.50
Sandra Humfryes (X)5,4569.75
Michael Thompson (X)4,9918.92
Rachel Gilliland4,8008.58
John Gallo4,7818.55
Vicky McGrath4,1127.35
Adam Mobbs4,0827.30
Anna Kroeplin2,8185.04
Ian Clark2,4064.30
David Heard2,4014.29
James Hoyes2,0253.62
Denis Van Decker1,9133.42
Matthew Abas1,6272.91
Derrick Hammett1,2692.27
Daniel Lajeunesse1,3652.44

East Gwillimbury

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East Gwillimbury changed its council from 4 councillors elected "at large" from the town, to 6 councillors in a 3-ward system, with two councillors elected in each ward.

Mayor

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Mayoral candidate[6] Vote %
Virginia Hackson (X)4,60778.10
Franco Colavecchia1,29221.90

Ward 1

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Two to be elected.

Candidate Vote %
Loralea Carruthers1,26330.6
Terry E. Foster87121.1
Joel Kearney56013.5
Calum MacMillan75318.2
Jeremy Smith2776.7
Leen Spiering4119.9

Ward 2

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Two to be elected.

Candidate Vote %
Tara Roy-DiClemente (X)89139.6
Joe Persechini (X)82136.4
Aida Kostuck54124.0

Ward 3

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Two to be elected.

Candidate Vote %
Scott Crone1,52539.2
Cathy Morton (X)1,16930.1
Susan Lahey82121.1
Melody Somerville3729.6

Source: [6]

Georgina

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Source for results:[7]

Mayor

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Mayoral candidate Vote %
Margaret Quirk (X)5,39160.96
Boris Godzinevski2,35326.61
Susan Jagminas1,10012.44

Georgina Town Council

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Map of Georgina's 5 wards

Regional Councillor

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Council candidate Vote %
Robert Grossi4,17546.83
Naomi Davison (X)3,45438.74
Lee Dale1,28614.43

Ward 1

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Council candidate Vote %
Mike Waddington99157.99
Charlene Biggerstaff (X)66839.09
Glenn Wittenberg502.93

Ward 2

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Council candidate Vote %
Dan Fellini (X) Acclaimed

Ward 3

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Council candidate Vote %
Dave Neeson (X) Acclaimed

Ward 4

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Council candidate Vote %
Frank Sebo (X)94444.89
Wayne Philips86541.13
Greta Zinck29413.98

Ward 5

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Council candidate Vote %
Dave Harding (X) Acclaimed

King

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Source for results:[8]

Mayor

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Mayoral candidate[9] Vote %
Steve Pellegrini (X) Acclaimed

Markham

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List of candidates:[10] Source for results:[11]

2018 Markham Mayoral election
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October 22, 2018
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Candidate Frank Scarpitti Steven Chen
Popular vote 55,553 11,068
Percentage 74.94% 14.93%
Mayor before election

Frank Scarpitti

 Elected mayor

Frank Scarpitti

Mayor

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Mayoral candidate Vote %
Frank Scarpitti (X)55,55374.94
Steve Chen11,06814.93
Abdul Rahman Malik3,3794.56
Jawed Syed2,2943.09
Shan Hua Lu1,8352.48

City Council

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Map of Markham's 8 wards

Regional Councillor

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In Markham, Regional Councillors serve on both the City Council as well as York Region Council. Electors can vote for up to four candidates on their ballots, equal to the total number that may be elected. The four winning candidates are those whom receive the highest number of votes. The candidate with the highest number of votes received also serves as Deputy Mayor.

Council candidate Vote %
Don Hamilton31,95213.48
Jack Heath (X)31,59813.33
Joe Li (X)29,85212.59
Jim Jones (X)29,03712.25
Nirmala Armstrong (X)25,21210.64
Jeffrey Lee15,5656.57
Ray Lai15,2966.45
Niran Jeyanesan14,9846.32
Tammy Mok13,7735.81
Jeff Leung12,5025.27
Peter Pavlovic11,0244.65
Aaron Madar5,9542.51

Ward 1

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Council candidate Vote %
Keith Irish2,26625.50
Howard Shore1,60218.02
Barry Nelson1,50616.94
Ricardo Mashregi1,17913.27
Peter Wong6707.54
Hilary Neubauer6166.93
Caryn Bergmann6026.77
Jasmine Kang4475.03

Ward 2

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Council candidate Vote %
Alan Ho (X)3,59847.01
Larry Lau1,44118.83
Charles Jiang1,28916.84
Tammy Armes5457.12
Tom Brindley4896.39
Bola Otaraki2923.81

Ward 3

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Council candidate Vote %
Reid McAlpine3,28738.69
Jennifer Carrie Wan2,06024.25
Ed Law1,71820.22
Soraya Mangal2993.52
Shanta Sundarason1,13213.32

Ward 4

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Council candidate Vote %
Karen Rea (X)8,19077.87
Ivy Lee1,76116.74
Shaarmina A. Rodrigo3723.54
Sansanwal Viradhi1941.84

Ward 5

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Council candidate Vote %
Andrew Keyes1,26617.00
Compass Chung92012.35
Sri Sivasubramaniam7349.86
Fred K. Wong6879.23
Tommy Chan6628.89
Marlene Mogado6468.67
Mo Shakir6038.10
Grace Woo5697.64
Jeremiah Vijeyaratnam5257.05
Scott Au3194.28
Sean O'Leary2773.72
Rajeev Narang1321.77
Ashok Bangia1071.44

Ward 6

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Council candidate Vote %
Amanda Yeung Collucci (X)3,12540.82
Shawn Wang2,35730.79
Gin Siow1,07414.03
Victor Chan82010.71
Arif Mahmood2803.66

Ward 7

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Council candidate Vote %
Khalid Usman (X)3,30824.14
Kethika Logan Kanapathi2,63519.23
Sundy Huang2,07915.17
Killi Chelliah1,96114.31
Malar Varatharaja1,58711.58
Mohammed Rahman1,0657.77
Sothy Sella4813.51
Johnson Irimpan3502.55
Mike Srinathan2361.72

Ward 8

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Council candidate Vote %
Isa Lee4,61644.00
Joseph Mohan Remisiar2,59924.77
Benson Lau1,25912.00
Howard Shen1,12410.71
Alex Chiu (X)8938.51

Newmarket

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Source for results:[12]

Mayor

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Mayoral candidate Vote %
John Taylor14,35173.71
Joe Wamback4,82524.78
Talib Ansari2941.51

Newmarket Town Council

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Map of Newmarket's seven wards

Deputy mayor and regional councillor

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Candidate Vote %
Tom Vegh8,57044.61
Chris Emanuel7,95241.40
Joan Stonehocker2,68813.99

Ward 1

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Council candidate Vote %
Grace Simon2,08260.65
Naqi Ashan1,01429.54
Rohit Singh3379.82

Ward 2

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Council candidate Vote %
Victor Woodhouse1,73162.45
Bill Kukulewich1,04137.55

Ward 3

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Council candidate Vote %
Jane Twinney (X)1,64573.01
Zach Zangari60826.99

Ward 4

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Council candidate Vote %
Trevor Morrison1,05243.11
Melissa Williams89136.52
Grant Waddell49720.37

Ward 5

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Council candidate Vote %
Bob Kwapis(X)2,20173.20
Ron Eibel80626.80

Ward 6

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Council candidate Vote %
Kelly Broome (X) Acclaimed

Ward 7

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Council candidate Vote %
Christina Bisanz (X) Acclaimed

Richmond Hill

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Source for results:[13]

Mayoral candidate Vote %
Dave Barrow (X)23,30476.07
Susan Korman4,75615.52
Abu Alam1,2384.04
Ali Noroozi7702.51
Mino Tari5671.85

Richmond Hill Town Council

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Map of Richmond Hill's six wards

Regional council

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Two to be elected.

Council candidate Vote %
Joe DiPaola11,75822.35
Carmine Perrelli11,41821.71
Carol Chan9,44817.96
Jason Cherniak8,87816.88
Ramin Faraji3,7067.04
Weibo Cheng3,5236.70
Sabine Ho2,6054.95
Murtaza Bhujwalla1,2692.41

Ward 1

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Council candidate Vote %
Greg Beros (X)2,32343.11
Carol Davidson1,68731.31
Lidia Kafieh1,16721.66
Trifon Haitas2113.92

Ward 2

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Council candidate Vote %
Tom Muench (X)1,82742.07
Scott Thompson1,07624.78
Keith Menezes63614.64
Michael Aziz52011.97
Mike Rajbar2846.54

Ward 3

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Council candidate Vote %
Castro Liu (X) Acclaimed

Ward 4

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Council candidate Vote %
David West (X)3,96366.16
Bob Aurora1,22820.50
Michael D'Amelio79913.34

Ward 5

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Council candidate Vote %
Karen Cilevitz (X)3,13751.81
Nick Papa2,24737.11
Mahnaz Shahbazi5428.95
Nima Shahi1292.13

Ward 6

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Council candidate Vote %
Godwin Chan (X)4,14681.97
Julie Maxey91218.03

Vaughan

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Source for results:[14]

Mayoral candidate[15] Vote %
Maurizio Bevilacqua (X)37,07270.70
Frank Miele13,69026.11
Savino Quatela1,6713.19

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Vaughan City Council

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Map of Vaughan's five wards

Regional council

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Three to be elected.

Council candidate[15] Vote %
Mario Ferri (X)23,32318.27
Gino Rosati (X)23,11318.11
Linda D. Jackson15,96212.51
Eliana Di Biase15,40112.07
Richard T. Lorello10,9698.59
Sunder Singh (X)9,2527.25
Fred Winegust8,7456.85
Jacob Joel Ginsberg7,6696.01
Frank Scarlato6,4405.05
Mubarak Ahmed3,9183.07
Skanda Singarajah2,8452.23

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Ward 1 Maple/Kleinburg

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Council candidate[15] Vote %
Marilyn Iafrate (X)6,53854.93
Carmine Tucci2,56421.54
Vince Scaramuzzo1,1269.46
Fitz-Roy Gordon6435.40
John Santoro5924.97
Millad Hamidkohzad4403.70

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Ward 2 Woodbridge West

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Council candidate[15] Vote %
Tony Carella (X)4,02033.83
Nick Pinto2,97625.04
Adriano Volpentesta2,90924.48
Simone Barbieri9648.11
Carrie Liddy4934.15
Mario Di Nardo4273.59
Nicole Elfar-Troiano950.80

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Ward 3 Woodbridge/Vellore

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Council candidate[15] Vote %
Rosanna DeFrancesca (X)6,22061.31
Victor Lacaria1,18311.66
Mark Pulciani1,15511.38
Tony Lorini1,0029.88
Salva Gravets2192.16
John Yusufi2032.00
Tom Takacs1631.61

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Ward 4 Concord/Thornhill

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Council candidate[15] Vote %
Sandra Yeung Racco (X)2,86849.53
Styles Q. Weinberg1,96833.99
Furio Liberatore95416.48

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Ward 5 Thornhill

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Council candidate[15] Vote %
Alan Shefman (X)6,76955.54
Allan Goldstein5,41844.46

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Whitchurch-Stouffville

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Mayor

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Mayoral candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Iain Lovatt5,32937.44
Keith Acton4,42131.06
Justin Altmann (X)3,06021.50-11.85
Anand Daté1,2608.85
Phil Bannon1621.14-29.47

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Whitchurch-Stouffville Town Council

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Map of Whitchurch-Stouffville's wards

Ward 1

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Council candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Ken Ferdinands (X)49055.68-7.14
Elizabeth Johnston31335.57-1.61
Kesha Wint778.75

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Ward 2

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Council candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Maurice Smith (X)1,72771.54-2.49
Ellen Gowland68728.46

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Ward 3

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Council candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Hugo Kroon (X)48066.76+13.08
Keith Singer16322.67
Stephen Rogers7610.57

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Ward 4

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Council candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Rick Upton (X)1,69456.41+21.15
Brian Sankarsingh67822.58
James Liaros63121.01%+3.64

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Ward 5

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Council candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Richard Bartley81729.24
Michael Humphreys73626.34-12.68
Rose Pizzulo48817.47
Jenny Altmann37813.53
Garland Zheng2719.70
Steve Downs1043.72

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Ward 6

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Council candidate Vote % vote % Δ
Sue Sherban1,64938.46
Rob Hargrave (X)1,51435.31%-2.44
Bryan Stott1,12526.24%14.37

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York Region District School Board

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Trustee - Area 1 (Vaughan Ward 1 & 2)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Anna DeBartolo4,43745.3
Miranda Goldberg1,20012.2
Charline Grant2,16122.0
Vivek Mehta5805.9
Sabrina Painda5615.7
Mandeep Rai6666.8
Azadeh Yeganeh1962.0

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Anna DeBartolo submitted her resignation from the Trustee position on January 9, 2019, citing personal reasons.[19]

Trustee - Area 2 (Vaughan Ward 3 & 4)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Linda Aversa2,34829.0
Sam Sanath Barua4785.9
Matthew Forbes1,72321.3
Justin Rangooni1,17814.5
Elizabeth Sinclair2,37629.3

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Trustee - Area 3 (Markham Ward 1 & Vaughan Ward 5)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
David Sherman3,66338.7
Aviva Polonsky3,40936.0
Todd Silverman95410.1
Brenndon Goodman7267.7
Simon Strelchik7167.6
Sahar Adaskar4364.6

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Trustee - East Gwillimbury and Whitchurch-Stouffville

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Candidate Vote %
Lena Singh
Elizabeth Terrell-Tracey

Trustee - Richmond Hill (Wards 1, 2 and 4)

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Candidate[22] Vote %
Simone Cui
Corrie McBain
Jonathan Nadler

York Catholic District School Board

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Trustee - Area 1 (Vaughan Ward 1)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Rose Cantisano273847.1
Teresa Ciaravella252743.5
Teresa Calvi5489.4

Trustee - Area 2 (Vaughan Ward 2)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Dino Giuliani241837.1
Michaela Barbieri183828.2
Enza Torchia147322.6
Daniele DiNardo5748.8
Justin Darmanin2083.2

Trustee - Area 3 (Vaughan Ward 3)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Joe Giancola
Maria Marchese
Donna Rosati

Trustee - Area 4 (Vaughan Ward 4 & 5)

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Jennifer Wigston

Le Conseil scolaire Viamonde

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Trustee - York Region

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Candidate[15] Vote %
François Guérin
Karine Ricard

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Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir

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Trustee - York Region

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Candidate[15] Vote %
Kathleen Beal
Maxime Papillon

References

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  2. ↑ "Municipal Election - York Region". york.ca. Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
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  4. 1 2 "Certificate of Election Results" (PDF). Town of Aurora. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Candidate Information". Town of Aurora. Archived from the original on May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  6. 1 2 "2018 Municipal Election Results". eastgwillimbury.ca. Town of East Gwillimbury. Archived from the original on October 23, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  7. ↑ "2018 Election Results". Town of Georgina. Archived from the original on October 26, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ "2018 Official Election Results". Township of King. Archived from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ "List of Certified Candidates". Township of King. Archived from the original on September 15, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Candidates". City of Markham. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  11. ↑ "2018 Municipal Election: Clerk's Certificate Declaration of the Results of Voting Official Results" (PDF). City of Markham. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Official Results for the 2018 Newmarket Municipal Election". Town of Newmarket. Archived from the original on November 13, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  13. ↑ "2018 Richmond Hill Official Municipal Elections Results". Town of Richmond Hill. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Results". City of Vaughan. Archived from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
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  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Form EL09-WS - Final Summary of Election Results" (PDF). Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 15, 2022. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  18. ↑ "York Region District School Board Area 1 Trustee" (PDF). City of Vaughan. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  19. ↑ Zarzour, Kim (January 10, 2019). "UPDATED: York Region public school board to replace Vaughan trustee with byelection". Yorkregion.com. Metroland Media Group. Archived from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  20. ↑ "York Region District School Board Area 2 Trustee" (PDF). City of Vaughan. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  21. ↑ "York Region District School Board Area 3 Trustee" (PDF). City of Vaughan. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  22. ↑ "Vote tally" (PDF). www.richmondhill.ca. 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  23. ↑ "2018 Election". Ontario Education Services Corporation. Retrieved July 26, 2019. A reliable source for 2018 vote tallies for Le Conseil scolaire Viamonde has not yet been found.
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