Live Hamilton municipal election results for mayor, council, and school board trustees

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The average monthly rent in Hamilton rose significantly year over year in September, but it’s still one of the cheaper major cities in Canada. (Photo by Anthony Urciuoli/insauga.com)

Hamilton is electing its next mayor, councilman and school board trustee after four years of turmoil that included local government scandals and the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic.

The latter, along with the challenges of housing and integration into a diverse Canadian society, are among the challenges faced by elected officials in Hamilton during the last municipal election term. Locally, affordable housing, improving public infrastructure – both roads and public transport, including LRT – and improving Hamilton’s climate resilience will be the long-term challenges.

Over the past four years, the city has buried #SewerGate, the Red Hill Valley Parkway, the safety report and concerns about Hamilton police over-policing justice-seeking communities. The city’s largest school board has also been rocked by a racism scandal while grappling with COVID-19 and cuts to education funding in real dollars by the Ontario government’s Premier Doug Ford-led PC Party.

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Live election results for Hamilton:

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mayor

For the first time since 2003, Hamilton is running a mayoral campaign without an incumbent seeking re-election. Bob Bratina, Andrea Horwath and Keanin Loomis are the main candidates for the office of the city’s 57th mayor. Ejaz Butt also started for the second time.

Bratina was mayor from 2010-14 and MP for the Liberals from 2015-21. Horwath was elected at the local and provincial levels for 25 years, including 13 years as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, before resigning in June.

Other participants in the race included Jim Davis, Paul Fromm, Solomon Ikhuiwu, Hermiz Ishaya and Michael Pattison.

Winner Announced:

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Hamilton has been pledged at least six new council members following a series of retirements. Stations 4, 5, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are all open races. Here’s a look at how each Ward race is shaping up tonight..

Station 1 (Chedoke Cootes)

Maureen Wilson is seeking re-election. Your opponents are Ian MacPherson and John Vail.

District 2 (downtown)

Jason Farr is seeking re-election for a fourth term. His opponents are second challenger Cameron Kroetsch, Shahan Aaron, Robin McKee and Raquel Rakovac.

Station 3 (Hamilton Center)

Nrinder Nann is seeking re-election. Her opponents are Michael Falletta, Laura Farr, Walter Furlan and Stan Kruchka.

District 4 (East Hamilton)

The second largest open race includes Max Francis, Angelica Hasbon, Tammy Hwang, Alex Johnstone, Cindy Kennedy, Pascale Marchand, Adam Oldfield, Robert Paris, Laura Taylor, Eric Tuck and Mary Williams.

The community attracted a big field after 22-year-old councilman Sam Merulla decided to retire.

Station 5 (East of Redhill)

Another open race with 11 candidates will face off against Sebastian Aldea, Krysta Boyer, Matt Francis, Kevin Geenen, Stan Habza, Bob Hurst, Ryan Ladner, Lynda Lukasik, Gordon Noble, Andrea Pugliese and George Rusich.

City Councilman Chad Collins, 26, who predated the Stoney Creek-Hamilton merger, vacated the seat last fall after being elected to the state legislature. Russ Powers was appointed Councilor with a tacit promise that he would not stand for election.

Station 6 (East Mountain)

Tom Jackson, the longest serving councilman at 34, has four opponents. They are Dan Preston, Donna Puddu, Stefan Spolnik and Chris Slye.

Station 7 (Central Mountain)

The smallest race is sure to have someone with Council experience. Incumbent Esther Pauls faces Scott Duvall, who was elected to Council three times (14/10/06) before being elected to Parliament.

Duvall was an MP for the New Democratic Party. More opposed to Canada’s Conservative Party, Pauls was a volunteer for Patrick Brown’s federal leadership campaign before being disqualified.

Station 8 (western/low mountain range)

John-Paul Danko (incumbent), Sonia Brown, Joshua Czerniga, Anthony Frisina, Daniel Veltri.

Ward 9 (Upper Stoney Creek)

Brad Clark seeks his fourth (non-consecutive) term, Walt Juchniewicz, Peter Lanza, Muhummad Naeem

Clark served as cabinet minister for the PC Party of Ontario in its early years under two prime ministers, Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. However, in the last council period he frequently aligned himself with the progressive left of Nann and Wilson, the Lower Town representatives.

District 10 (Lower Stoney Creek)

Incumbent Maria Pearson and challengers Jeff Beattie and Louie Milojevic are the only candidates in a 2018 rematch.

Last time out in 2018, Pearson held a 9-point lead over runner-up Milojevic and a nearly 12-point lead over Beattie.

Ward 11 (Glanbrook)

Either Nick Lauwers, Terri Moffett, Nick Pellegrino or Mark Tadeson will be the new presence at the table for a rapidly urbanizing section of Hamilton that includes Hannon and Mount Hope.

Three-year councilwoman Brenda Johnson announced her intention to retire earlier this year.

Ward 12 (Ancaster)

The third largest race, with 10 candidates, includes Chuck Alkerton, Robert Baboth, Craig Cassar, Richard Deverson, Karl Hanley, William Robert Hume, Cindy Kaye, Megg Markettos, Bob Maton and Pamela Mitchell.

Lloyd Ferguson, who held elected office in the Ancaster region for nearly 30 years, announced his resignation in July.

Ward 13 (Dundas)

Arlene VanderBeek was one of the last incumbents to figure out who would challenge her. Alex Wilson entered the race in August.

Station 14 (Westberg)

Kojo Damptey, a social justice activist who directs the Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion, was elected

Brian Lewis, Christopher Poole, Don Ross, Mike Spadafora, Christine Seketa and Colleen Wicken also stood for the seat.

Damptey will be the second black elected to the council. Hamilton Center MP Matthew Green served as councilor for Ward 3 from 2010 to 2018.

The last representative from the community was 19-year-old councilor Terry Whitehead, who retired in August due to ill health. Whitehead was twice threatened with his salary for bullying and harassment by city officials and another council member during his last term.

District 15 (Flamborough East)

Ted McMeekin, who was Flamborough’s last mayor and heavily criticized its incorporation into Hamilton in 2000, will now be a councillor. McMeekin was elected with the support of XXXX

Zobia Jawed, Robert Kunysz, Chris Pera, Sumaira Wagar also ran.

McMeekin served two terms as Mayor of Flamborough in the 1990s. When that post was abolished, he was elected as the Ontario Liberal MP in Queen’s Park and became Cabinet Secretary under Prime Ministers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.

School Board Trustee

Hamilton residents also elect trustees for four local school boards. These include the Hamilton-Wentworth School Boards (English Public, English Public Catholics), Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French Public), and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (French Public Catholics). Some parishes share a trustee in the two English bodies. This distribution is determined by the former board of directors based on the size of the population and the needs of the community.

HWDSB (English public)

station 1

Michael Kelly, Cameron Prosic, Elizabeth Wong, Wendy Thrasher

station 2

Sabreina Dahab, Tarek Jalbout, Michael Peters, and Andrew Smyth

station 3

Maria Felix Miller, Larry Pattison, Fatima Baig

station 4

Ray Mulholland, Shane Cunningham, Boles, Davin Thornborrow

Stations 5 & 10

Todd White, former chairman of the HWDSB

Zahid Butt, who ran for the Ontario NDP in the provincial elections, Marie Jackson, Nancy Silva Khan, Joseph Szigeti,

Stations 6 & 9

Incumbent Kathy Archer and challenger Jay Edington are locked in a rematch with more territory to represent and no third candidate.

He threatened the closure of Sherwood Secondary School, which she refused, and her role in a well-documented racism scandal.

Archer beat Edington by 551 votes in 2018, with her 3,046 votes accounting for 48.4 percent of the ballots cast. Third place received 749 votes.

station 7

Dawn Danko, HWDSB’s youngest Chair, was easily re-elected with the support of XXXX.X. Danko’s challengers were Amy Cowling and Ryan Weinberger.

Stations 8 & 14

This was one of the most watched trustee races due to the conflict between incumbent Becky Buck and challenger Ahona Mehdi, a former student trustee.

Buck was one of four trustees, all white women, whose racist behavior was confirmed in a third-party investigation after Mehdi spoke out about incidents that occurred during her 2019-20 tenure. Three of the four trustees participated in a vote to redact names from the public copy of the report.

Buck attended sensitivity training after the saga. Her campaign materials cited learning recovery as her top priority, and she noted that the HWDSB’s “student population is diverse and, thinking particularly of newcomers to Hamilton, faces unique challenges.”

Stations 11 & 12

Amanda Fehrman and Tom Patterson

station 13

Larry Masters, Paul Tut

The school board trustees have no control over the school curriculum. This area is administered by the Ontario Department of Education.

station 15

Syed Banoori, Catherine Kronas, Graeme Noble

Kronas is a Stop Woke candidate. The school board trustees have no control over the school curriculum. This area is administered by the Ontario Department of Education.

HWCDSB (English Catholic)

Stations 1, 2 and 15

Mark Valvasori was hailed for his seat on the Catholic Board.

Stations 3 and 4

Ralph Agostino vs Josie Angelini

station 5

Aldo D’Intino vs Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

station 6

Ellen Agostino, Peter Mamer, and Anthony Mari

station 7

Pat Daly, Chair of the HWCSDB, was re-elected with the support of XX.XX. Daly prevailed against opponents Nick Agostino and Michael Di Giacomo

Stations 8 and 14

John Valvasori Francesco Capisciolto Wieslawa Chrapka

Stations 9 and 11

Louis Agro vs. Jeanie Corner vs. Tyler Iorio

station 10

Andrea Di Nicola vs. Mary Nardini

Stations 12 and 13

Phil Homerski vs. Ricky Tavares

Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French audience)

Pierre Gregory was hailed in August as the representative of public school students and parents opting for a French-language education.

Conseil Scolair Catholique MonAvenir (French public Catholic)

Joseph Gosselin versus Marcel Levesque

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