Calgary municipal election, 2010
Encyclopedia
The 2010 Calgary
municipal election was held Monday, October 18, 2010
to elect a mayor and 14 aldermen to the city council
, the seven trustee
s to the Calgary School District
(each representing 2 of 14 wards), and four of the seven trustees to the Calgary Catholic School District
(each representing 2 of 14 wards). Three incumbent
separate school trustees had no challengers. A new mayor was to be elected, as the three term incumbent Dave Bronconnier
did not seek re-election. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality
to hold triennial elections.
The voter turnout
was 53%, a great increase from previous elections.
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
municipal election was held Monday, October 18, 2010
2010 in Canada
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to elect a mayor and 14 aldermen to the city council
Calgary City Council
The Calgary City Council is the legislative governing body that represents the citizens of Calgary. The Council consists of two offices; Office of the Mayor and Office of the Alderman. Naheed Nenshi was elected to the Office of the Mayor in October 2010 as the city's 36th chief executive...
, the seven trustee
Trustee
Trustee is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another...
s to the Calgary School District
Calgary Board of Education
The Calgary Board of Education is the public school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a public system, the CBE is required to accept any students who meet age and residency requirements, regardless of religion.-Size:...
(each representing 2 of 14 wards), and four of the seven trustees to the Calgary Catholic School District
Calgary Catholic School District
The Calgary Catholic School District is the Roman Catholic separate school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It also serves the neighboring communities of Airdrie, Chestermere, and Cochrane...
(each representing 2 of 14 wards). Three incumbent
Incumbent
The incumbent, in politics, is the existing holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W...
separate school trustees had no challengers. A new mayor was to be elected, as the three term incumbent Dave Bronconnier
Dave Bronconnier
David 'Dave' Thomas Bronconnier is a Canadian politician, who served as the 35th Mayor of Calgary, Alberta.- Biography :...
did not seek re-election. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality
Alberta municipal elections, 2010
Municipal elections were held in Alberta, Canada on Monday, October 18, 2010. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold triennial elections...
to hold triennial elections.
The voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 53%, a great increase from previous elections.
Results
Bold indicates elected, italics indicates incumbent, and asterisk indicates withdrew from race.Mayor
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Naheed K. Nenshi Naheed Nenshi Naheed Kurban Nenshi is a Canadian politician, who was elected to succeed Dave Bronconnier as mayor of Calgary, Alberta in the 2010 Calgary municipal election.- Biography :... |
140,263 | 39.6 |
| Ric McIver Ric McIver Ric McIver is municipal politician and businessman from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a former alderman for Ward 12 on the Calgary City Council. McIver held his post from his election in October 2001 until his run for mayor in October 2010... |
112,386 | 31.7 |
| Barb Higgins Barb Higgins Barbara Joan Higgins is a former newscaster and journalist for Calgary CTV outlet CFCN-TV. A news journalist for 21 years, she stepped down from her job as a CFCN news anchor to enter the Calgary mayoral race on July 23, 2010. Higgins has stated she can no longer stay neutral as a journalist and... |
91,359 | 25.8 |
| Joe Connelly | 2,484 | 0.7 |
| Bob Hawkesworth Bob Hawkesworth Robert "Bob" Andrew Hawkesworth is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Hawkesworth attended the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary before being elected in 1980 to Calgary City Council as alderman for Ward 3... * |
1,513 | 0.4 |
| Jon Lord Jon Lord (politician) Jon Lord is a former politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Jon was born in Calgary and raised in rural Central Alberta. After having graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in business. He established a successful video... |
1,461 | 0.4 |
| Wayne Stewart* | 1,360 | 0.4 |
| Craig Burrows* | 994 | 0.3 |
| Barry Erskine | 672 | 0.2 |
| Bonnie Devine | 329 | 0.1 |
| Amanda Liu | 336 | 0.1 |
| Sandra Hunter | 284 | 0.1 |
| Dan Knight | 262 | 0.1 |
| Oscar Fech | 207 | 0.1 |
| Gary F. Johnston | 180 | 0.1 |
Aldermen
| Ward 1 | |Ward 2 | |Ward 3 | |Ward 4 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Dale Hodges | 12,330 | 41.4 | Gord Lowe | 9,232 | 42.7 | Jim Stevenson | 10,913 | 61.6 | Gael Grace MacLeod | 7,288 | 25.4 |
| Chris Harper | 7,308 | 24.6 | "Joe" Biagio Magliocca | 8,210 | 37.9 | Helene Larocque | 3,905 | 22.0 | Sean Chu | 6,000 | 20.9 |
| Ric Lockhart | 3,820 | 12.8 | Terry Richard Avramenko | 3,471 | 16.0 | Pervaiz Iqbal | 1,654 | 9.3 | Jane Morgan | 3,748 | 13.1 |
| Judi Vandenbrink | 2,996 | 10.1 | Daniel M. Del Re | 727 | 3.4 | Gary Duane Tremblay | 1,258 | 7.1 | Jon Wong | 2,663 | 9.3 |
| Bill Scott | 2,732 | 9.2 | Ward 5 | |Ward 6 | Brad Northcott | 2,500 | 8.7 | ||||
| Norm Perrault | 573 | 1.9 | Ray Jones | 11,685 | 62.1 | Richard Pootmans | 8,107 | 30.6 | Tommy Low | 1,668 | 5.8 |
| Ward 7 | Jay Bal | 2,861 | 15.7 | John Yannitsos | 3,931 | 14.9 | Leslie Bedard | 1,589 | 5.5 | ||
| Druh Farrell | 11,910 | 42.9 | Beena Ashar | 2,323 | 12.3 | Brent Mielke | 3,377 | 12.8 | Dwight Larry Boehm | 1,020 | 3.6 |
| Kevin Taylor | 10,658 | 38.4 | Robert J. Guizzo | 1,949 | 10.4 | Ken Rogers | 3,364 | 12.7 | Carol Poon | 860 | 3.0 |
| Jim Pilling | 2,621 | 9.4 | Ward 8 | Randy Royer | 3,111 | 11.8 | Jeff Haussecker | 758 | 2.6 | ||
| Elizabeth Ann Cook | 1,367 | 4.9 | John Mar | 11,630 | 52.7 | Tom Malyszko | 2,369 | 9.0 | Curtis Kruschel | 593 | 2.1 |
| Michael Krisko | 1,204 | 4.3 | Zakary Pashak | 9,079 | 41.1 | Coral Turner | 977 | 3.7 | Ward 9 | ||
| Ward 10 | David Lapp | 830 | 3.8 | Robert Wills | 885 | 3.3 | Gian-Carlo Carra | 7,850 | 31.0 | ||
| Andre Chabot Andre Chabot André Chabot is a municipal level politician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada who currently serves as the Alderman for Ward 10 of the Calgary City Council... |
13,042 | 77.8 | Antoni Grochowski | 546 | 2.5 | Rad Dimic | 176 | 0.7 | Mike Pal | 7,355 | 29.0 |
| Robert Kennish | 1,698 | 10.1 | Ward 11 | Henry Sims | 164 | 0.6 | Jeremy Pat Nixon | 4,814 | 19.0 | ||
| Nargis Dossa | 1,214 | 7.2 | Brian Pincott | 10,834 | 35.1 | Ward 12 | Stephen Chapman | 2,944 | 11.6 | ||
| Karl Schackwidt | 820 | 4.9 | James Maxim | 9,385 | 30.4 | Shane A. Keating | 9,270 | 42.4 | Stan (The Man) Waciak | 905 | 3.6 |
| Ward 13 | Ernest Stephen McCutcheon | 4,417 | 14.3 | Al Browne | 6,886 | 31.5 | Petra Clemens | 718 | 2.8 | ||
| Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart Diane Colley-Urquhart Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart is municipal politician and Calgary Police Commissioner from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is currently a member of Calgary City Council and serves as the representative for Ward 13.-Registered Nurse:... |
12,901 | 52.6 | Olga Knight | 3,736 | 12.1 | Roger Crowe | 4,433 | 20.3 | Henry Charles Hollinger | 543 | 2.1 |
| Sandy Jenkins | 7,119 | 29.0 | Wayne E. Frisch | 2,466 | 8.0 | Benjamin G. Sim | 663 | 3.0 | Adam Vase | 221 | 0.9 |
| Andrew Rodych | 2,635 | 10.7 | Ward 14 | Rory Rotzoll | 588 | 2.7 | |||||
| Trevor Hodge | 1,865 | 7.6 | Peter Demong | 8,483 | 29.2 | ||||||
| Richard Dur | 7,188 | 24.8 | |||||||||
| Shawn Chiping Kao | 5,647 | 19.5 | |||||||||
| Linda Fox-Mellway Linda Fox-Mellway Linda Fox-Mellway is a municipal politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as Alderman for ward 14 of Calgary City Council from 1995. On October 18, 2010, Fox-Mellway was voted out of office... |
5,187 | 17.9 | |||||||||
| Ken Gerelus | 1,324 | 4.6 | |||||||||
| Billy (The Butcher) Tummonds | 1,201 | 4.1 | |||||||||
Public school trustees
| Ward 1/2 | |Ward 3/4 | |Ward 5/10 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Joy Bowen-Eyre | 5,732 | 19.2 | Lynn C. Ferguson | 24,461 | 83.5 | Pamela King | 11,075 | 47.8 |
| Michael Gretton | 5,308 | 17.8 | Tanveer Taj | 4,845 | 16.5 | Ryan J. White | 3,307 | 14.3 |
| Trina Hurdman | 5,065 | 16.9 | Rick Rowan | 3,162 | 13.7 | |||
| Roberta McDonald | 4,364 | 14.6 | Shahzad Ashraf | 2,826 | 12.2 | |||
| Jawad Durrani | 4,336 | 14.5 | Amarjot Mangat | 2,787 | 12.0 | |||
| Josh Traptow | 3,549 | 11.9 | Ward 6/7 | |Ward 8/9 | ||||
| Jaret Kneller | 1,546 | 5.2 | George S. Lane | 14,575 | 44.9 | Pat Cochrane | 15,226 | 52.5 |
| Ward 11/13 | Carole Oliver | 14,392 | 44.3 | Laura Shutiak | 13,784 | 47.5 | ||
| Sheila Taylor | 6,817 | 21.6 | Lenore Indarsingh | 3,499 | 10.8 | Ward 12/14 | ||
| Catherine Heggerud | 5,538 | 17.5 | Carol Bazinet | 13,766 | 46.0 | |||
| Julie Kearns | 4,711 | 14.9 | Malik Amery | 8,237 | 27.5 | |||
| Sue Styles | 3,155 | 10.0 | Wendi Ann Moore | 7,912 | 26.4 | |||
| Helen Mowat | 2,885 | 9.1 | ||||||
| Victor Lough | 2,809 | 8.9 | ||||||
| Andrea Guinn | 2,631 | 8.3 | ||||||
| Larry R. Heather Larry R. Heather Larry R. Heather is a politician and activist in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a perennial candidate for the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, and has also campaigned in provincial and municipal elections.... |
1,577 | 5.0 | ||||||
| Sarah Baehl de Lescure | 1,463 | 4.6 | ||||||
Separate school trustees
| Ward 1/2/Cochrane | |Ward 3/5/Airdrie | |Ward 4/7 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Serafino Scarpino | Acclaimed Acclamation An acclamation, in its most common sense, is a form of election that does not use a ballot. "Acclamation" or "acclamatio" can also signify a kind of ritual greeting and expression of approval in certain social contexts in ancient Rome.-Voting:... |
Linda Wellman | 7,784 | 76.8 | Marge Belcourt | 6,224 | 58.6 | |
| Ward 6/8 | Rofina Groebmair | 2,352 | 23.2 | Anne Engel | 4,398 | 41.4 | ||
| Lois Burke-Gaffney | 6,095 | 67.7 | Ward 9/10/Chestermere | |Ward 11/12 | ||||
| Antoni Grochowski | 2,909 | 32.3 | Rosemarie Ann Goerlitz | Acclaimed | Catherine Williams | 4,918 | 42.4 | |
| Ward 13/14 | Kim VanKosh | 3,557 | 30.7 | |||||
| Mary Louise Martin | Acclaimed | Michael Annuik | 3,111 | 26.9 | ||||
Mayor
- Craig Burrows - Former Ward 6 alderman, withdrew from the race on October 14 to back Ric McIver, but still appeared on the ballot.
- Joe Connelly - Alderman incumbent to Ward 6.
- Bonnie Devine - Previous Communist candidate for Calgary-East MLA.
- Barry Erskine - Former alderman, and host of Let's Talk Gardening on AM 770 CHQR.
- Oscar Fech - Ran for mayor in 2001 and 2004 elections.
- Bob HawkesworthBob HawkesworthRobert "Bob" Andrew Hawkesworth is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Hawkesworth attended the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary before being elected in 1980 to Calgary City Council as alderman for Ward 3...
- Alderman incumbent to Ward 4, withdrew from the race on October 13 to back Barb Higgins, but still appeared on the ballot. - Barb HigginsBarb HigginsBarbara Joan Higgins is a former newscaster and journalist for Calgary CTV outlet CFCN-TV. A news journalist for 21 years, she stepped down from her job as a CFCN news anchor to enter the Calgary mayoral race on July 23, 2010. Higgins has stated she can no longer stay neutral as a journalist and...
- Former news anchor at CTV CalgaryCFCN-TVCFCN-DT is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Calgary, Alberta. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is a part of the CTV Television Network. The station also operates a semi-satellite in Lethbridge....
. - Sandra Hunter -
- Gary F. Johnston - Retired rail worker, blind.
- Dan Knight -
- Amanda Liu -
- Jon LordJon Lord (politician)Jon Lord is a former politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Jon was born in Calgary and raised in rural Central Alberta. After having graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in business. He established a successful video...
- Former MLA and alderman. - Ric McIverRic McIverRic McIver is municipal politician and businessman from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a former alderman for Ward 12 on the Calgary City Council. McIver held his post from his election in October 2001 until his run for mayor in October 2010...
- Alderman incumbent to Ward 12. - Naheed K. Nenshi - Served on the leadership team of imagineCalgary.
- Wayne Stewart - Former president and CEO of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, withdrew from the race on October 14 to back Naheed Nenshi, but still appeared on the ballot.