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2018 Ontario municipal elections

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The 2018 municipal elections in Ontario were held on October 22, 2018.[2]

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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 could be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period began.[3]

Nominations closed on July 27, 2018, at 2 PM local time. Certification of nomination papers was completed by 4 PM on July 30, 2018.[2]

Voting was on October 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM.[2]

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.[4]

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,[5] while Kingston and Cambridge held referendums concurrently with their 2018 elections on whether to adopt ranked ballots for the next municipal elections in 2022.[6] Both of the referendums passed, though neither reached the 50 per cent turnout required to make the results legally binding.[7][8]

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.[9]

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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.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12]

Counties

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Regional municipalities

Districts

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Single tier municipalities

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Brantford

Chatham-Kent

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Chatham-Kent Municipal Council

The results for Chatham-Kent municipal council is as follows:[14]

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Greater Sudbury

Haldimand County

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Haldimand County Municipal Council

The results for Haldimand County Council are as follows:[16]

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Hamilton

Kawartha Lakes

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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:[18]

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Norfolk County

The following are the results for Norfolk County.[19]

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Norfolk County Council

There were some slight alterations to Norfolk County's ward map.[20]

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By-election

A by-election was held on June 3, 2021, in Ward 2 to fill the vacancy of Roger Geysens who retired.[21]

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Ottawa

Prince Edward County

Mayor

The following are the results for Prince Edward County.[22]

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Toronto

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Separated municipalities

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Barrie

Belleville

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The following are the results for Belleville.[23]

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Brockville

The following are the results for Brockville.[24]

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Councillors

Eight Councillors were elected.

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Cornwall

Mayor

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Cornwall City Council

The results for Cornwall city council are as follows:[26]

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Gananoque

Mayor

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Guelph

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Guelph City Council

Two councillors to be elected in each ward. Results for Guelph city council are as follows.

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Kingston

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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.[28]

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Kingston City Council

The results for Kingston city council are as follows:[29]

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London

Orillia

Mayor

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Pelee

The results for Pelee Island were as follows:

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Peterborough

The following are the results for Peterborough.[31]

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Councillors

Two councillors were elected from each of the 5 wards.

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Pembroke

Mayor

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Prescott

Mayor

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Quinte West

Mayor

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Quinte West City Council

Elections results for Quinte West city council are as follows:

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St. Marys

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Stratford

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Smiths Falls

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St. Thomas

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St. Thomas City Council

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

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Windsor

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