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• Randy Tooke was thirty-one years old during the election and owned a café in Brantford. He focused his campaign around a call for downtown revitalization to benefit small-business owners.

• Wally Lucente was born and raised in Brantford. He first ran for the Brantford City Council in 1985
  Brantford municipal election, 1985
  The 1985 Brantford municipal election was held on November 12, 1985, to elect a mayor, city councillors, and school trustees in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The rural and small-town communities surrounding Brantford also held elections on the same day.-Results:...
  
   with support from the Brantford and District Labour Council
  Brantford and District Labour Council
  The Brantford and District Labour Council is a labour council in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. It is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress.-External links:*...
  
  ; he was thirty years old at the time and worked for the provincial labour ministry
  Ministry of Labour (Ontario)
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  . Defeated on that occasion, he was elected in 1988
  Brantford municipal election, 1988
  The 1988 Brantford municipal election was held on November 14, 1988, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Elections were also held in the rural and small-town communities around the city.-Results:...
  
  , 1991
  Brantford municipal election, 1991
  The 1991 Brantford municipal election was held on November 12, 1991, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.Bob Taylor, who had served on council for only one year, was elected as mayor over incumbent Karen George....
  
  , 1994
  Brantford municipal election, 1994
  The 1994 Brantford municipal election was held on November 14, 1994, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario.In the mayoral contest, Chris Friel defeated one-term incumbent Bob Taylor.-Results:...
  
  , 1997
  Brantford municipal election, 1997
  The 1997 Brantford municipal election was held on November 10, 1997, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario...
  
  , and 2000
  Brantford municipal election, 2000
  The 2000 Brantford municipal election was held on November 13, 2000, to elect a mayor, city councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada.-Results:...
  
  . During his time on council, he chaired Brantford's police services board; waterfront advisory committee; Mohawk Lake committee; and engineering, public works and community services committee. In 2001, he raised the option of a combined municipal police force for Brantford and neighbouring Brant County. While he often had poor relations with his fellow ward councillor Marguerite Ceschi-Smith
  Marguerite Ceschi-Smith
  Marguerite Ceschi-Smith is a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. She is a prominent member of the Brantford City Council, where she has served since 1994. She is also an executive member of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities...
  
  , he nonetheless supported her downtown brownfield rehabilitation program in 2002. When Lucente ran for re-election in 2003, he said that he wanted to see the Brantford Southern Access Road through to completion. During the 2003 election, local journalist Tim Philp described him as a "good councillor" who "carries out his duties but contributes little useful to council discussions." After his defeat, he continued working for the provincial labour ministry and chaired the Brant County Police Services Board as a citizen member.
• Charles "Skip" Pennell is best known as a tourism supporter in Brantford. He was active with the Pine Tree Native Centre in the 1990s and early 2000s and was the project coordinator for Kanata, a replica seventeenth-century Iroquois
  Iroquois
  The Iroquois , also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America...
  
  village that opened in 2000. The village won an award for Best New Tourism Attraction in Ontario and was runner-up for Best New Attraction of Canada. Pennell has also chaired Brantford's tourism advisory board. He was fifty-one years old when he ran for council; he said that he respected incumbent councillors Marguerite Ceschi-Smith and Wally Lucente and was running to offer another voice.