Voters Gone WIld

[james_davis_nicoll]

The tentative results from yesterday's municipal election:


As usual for municipal elections, the turnout was miserable, 23% for Kitchener.

Mayor  	Elect:      1

Candidate 	         Votes 	Percent
Carl Zehr 	        24,520 	67.96% 	
Janis Hedrich 	         7,663 	21.24% 	
Jon Huemiller 	         2,917 	 8.08%
Frank Kulcsar 	           981 	 2.72% 	

Councillor - Bridgeport-Centre Ward (1) 	Elect:      1
	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
John D. Smola 	        2,784 	44.45% 	
Richard Maass 	        1,408 	22.48% 	
Glen Bender 	        1,278 	20.41% 	
Jack Byrne 	          404 	 6.45% 	
Julian Ichim 	          234 	 3.74% 	
Albert Norris 	          155 	 2.47% 	

Councillor - Chicopee-Grand River Ward (2) 	Elect:      1
 	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Berry Vrbanovic         4,352 	69.15% 	
Len Carter 	        1,308 	20.78% 	
J.D. McGuire 	          634 	10.07% 	

Councillor - Fairview-Gateway Ward (3) 	Elect:      1

Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
John A. Gazzola 	3,615 	68.22% 	
Bob McColl 	          911 	17.19% 	
Fitzroy Vanderpool 	  773 	14.59% 	

Councillor - South Ward (4) 	Elect:      1

Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Kelly Galloway 	        1,740 	36.35% 	
Mike Harris 	        1,459 	30.48% 	
Bill Poole 	          573 	11.97% 	
Marjorie Brown 	          521 	10.88% 	
Victor Herbert 	          215 	4.49% 	
Randy MacDonald           124 	2.59% 	
Mike Windley 	           96 	2.01% 	
Tony Kerr 	           59 	1.23% 	

Councillor - Forest-Rockway Ward (5) 	Elect:      1
 	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Geoff Lorentz 	        3,345 	50.90% 	
Zyg Janecki 	        3,227 	49.10% 	

Councillor - West-Victoria Park Ward (6) 	Elect:      1

Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Chris Weylie 	        2,181 	36.10% 	
Scott Piatkowski 	1,524 	25.22% 	
Raj Gill 	        1,216 	20.13% 	
Leszek Jankowski 	1,121 	18.55% 	

Member - Waterloo Catholic District School Board 	Elect:      4

Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Greg Reitzel 	        5,827 	22.27% 	
Marion Thomson Howell 	5,176 	19.78% 	
Wayne Buchholtz 	4,586 	17.53% 	
Denise Blum 	        3,941 	15.06% 	
Richard V. Marchak 	3,169 	12.11% 	
Christopher Gehan 	2,145 	8.20% 	
Edgar Najera 	        1,319 	5.04% 	

Member - Waterloo Region District School Board 	Elect:      4
	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	 
Ted Martin 	        7,792 	10.98% 	 
Mike Ramsay 	        6,588 	9.29% 	 
Kathi Smith 	        6,432 	9.07% 	 
Patricia Adamson 	6,077 	8.57% 	 
Joyce Palubiski 	6,040 	8.51% 	 
Kate Windsor 	        5,387 	7.59% 	 
Valerie Jones 	        5,330 	7.51% 	 
Thomas Fournier 	4,348 	6.13% 	 
Karen Morgan-Bowyer 	3,531 	4.98% 	 
Dawn Clelland 	        3,377 	4.76% 	 
Jim Payton 	        3,155 	4.45% 	 
Steve Bongelli 	        3,054 	4.31% 	 
Rod McNeil 	        2,989 	4.21% 	 
Heath Preston 	        1,978 	2.79% 	 
Ildiko V. LaFontaine 	1,769 	2.49% 	 
Mikael Beijbom 	        1,738 	2.45% 	 
Vivian Tambeau 	        1,351 	1.90% 	 

Member - Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique Centre-Sud 	Elect:      1
	
Candidate 	        Votes 	     
Dorothee Petit-Pas 	ACCLAIMED 	

Member - Conseil Scolaire de District du Centre-Sud-Ouest 	Elect:      1
	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Gilles Arpin 	           39 	70.91% 	
Stephan Barath 	           16 	29.09% 	

Chair - Region of Waterloo 	Elect:      1
 	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 
Ken Seiling 	       23,748 	69.80% 	
J. Robert (Bob) Verdun 	5,826 	17.12% 	
Robert A. Ross 	        4,451 	13.08% 	

Councillor - Region of Waterloo 	Elect:      4
	
Candidate 	        Votes 	Percent 	
Tom Galloway 	       19,838 	18.20% 	
Jean Haalboom 	       17,034 	15.63% 	
Jake Smola 	       15,961 	14.64% 	
Jim Wideman 	       15,629 	14.34% 	
Steven Cage 	       11,341 	10.40% 	
Gary R. Ferguson 	6,760 	6.20% 	
Jason Hammond 	        6,298 	5.78% 	
Rick Moffitt 	        5,711 	5.24% 	
Kurt L. Ditner 	        4,413 	4.05% 	
Daniel Glenn-Graham 	3,440 	3.16% 	
Matthew Ichim 	        2,581 	2.37% 	

Comments

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