The first municipal election in Norfolk County, Ontario

Norfolk County, Ontario

Norfolk County is a rural city-status single-tier municipality on the north shore of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Bloomsburg is a small town located in Norfolk County and is the hometown of David Slater. The county seat and largest community is Simcoe...

, Canada

Canada

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in the year 2000 was the first one as a single-tier municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

. Rita Kalmbach

Rita Kalmbach

Rita Kalmbach was the first mayor of Norfolk County. It was during her tenure that Norfolk County became a separate municipality from Haldimand County...

 defeated the former Simcoe

Simcoe, Ontario

Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada located near Lake Erie. It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk County....

 mayor

Mayor

In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

 Rick Kolwasky and another rival candidate by the name of Dennis Travale

Dennis Travale

Dennis Travale is the second mayor of Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada whose tenure has witness a major worldwide economic meltdown starting on September 2008.-Summary:...

 (who would eventually win the 2006 election) by ensuring the tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...

 farmer

Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...

s a future in Norfolk County. This election helped to start the transition period from a stagnant agrarian region to a thriving agritourism

Agritourism

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 region.

Councillors Elected in 2000

(note: list is not complete)

• Ward 5 - Peter Black
• Ward 4 - Dean Morrison

See also

2003 Norfolk County municipal election

Norfolk County municipal election, 2003

The second municipal election in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada took place in 2003; it challenged the tobacco status quo of the municipality. Rita Kalmbach defeated 21-year-old political neophyte Brian Decker by more than half of the popular votes in order to maintain the integrity of the local...

2006 Norfolk County municipal election

Norfolk County municipal election, 2006

thumb|300px|Map of the Wards in Norfolk CountyThe 3rd municipal election in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada took place on November 13, 2006. Dennis Travale, a businessman who also ran in the 2000 election, was elected mayor. Rita Kalmbach had chosen not to run for re-election due to personal reasons...