Ontario municipal elections, 2003


In the 2003 municipal elections in Ontario, voters in Ontario, Canada, elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of Ontario's municipalities.

Results of election

According to the , province-wide turnout for municipal elections in 2003 was 40.18% across 408 municipalities. This was down roughly 1%. 574 positions were acclaimed and 28 municipalities reported that their entire councils were acclaimed. In all, there were 5,103 candidates for 2,268 positions.
Here are results of mayoral races in selected cities in the civic elections held on November 10, 2003.

Ajax">Ajax, Ontario">Ajax

In a surprisingly active race, city councillor David Courtemanche emerged the victor over businessman Paul Marleau to succeed retiring mayor Jim Gordon.

[Guelph]

In 2003, Guelph was the only major city in the province where both of the leading candidates for mayor were women.
See 2003 Hamilton municipal election
First elected mayor in 1978, Hazel McCallion was easily reelected to her tenth term. As one of the longest serving politicians in the country, Mayor McCallion is well known to Mississaugans.
See: 2003 Norfolk County municipal election
Incumbent Ann Mulvale's narrow defeat of development skeptic Rob Burton had to be confirmed later in a judicial recount.
Incumbent mayor Nancy Diamond was defeated by challenger John Gray in a race that also hinged on economic and urban development; Gray was the pro-development candidate.
Incumbent Bob Chiarelli was reelected after facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Terry Kilrea.
See: 2003 St. Catharines municipal election
, Mayor of Timmins for 17 of the 20 years from 1980 to 2000, who did not stand in the 2000 municipal election, came out of retirement and was returned against one-term incumbent and the first female mayor of Timmins Jamie Lim.
was elected mayor defeating John Tory, Barbara Hall and John Nunziata.
See also: 2003 Toronto municipal election Results of 2003 Toronto election

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