Canadian by-elections, 2016 (next event: Quebec provincial byelections [Dec 5])

[Hatman 🍁]

Two more costly by-elections for the TDSB and they won't even be on the same day.

really? could they not be? the Toronto-Centre one has not been called. Who calls them?

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=21193fab14970410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

Toronto Centre: June 20
York Centre: July 25

[DL]

What difference does it make whether those school board byelections are on the same day or not? They are in two totally different parts of the city, there are no cost savings i can think of...

[trebor204]

What difference does it make whether those school board byelections are on the same day or not? They are in two totally different parts of the city, there are no cost savings i can think of...

- You can share advertising costs. One ad with information on both by-elections, instead of two separate ads.

While at the subject,
You might need to change the title since Winnipeg has 3 separate school board by-elections for Saturday June 11/2016.   
If you are wondering, Winnipeg has 6+ separate school divisions.

Two of vacancies  were the results of the recent provincial election, and one was the result of a trustee being fired after moving to another school division.

- Louis Riel  - Ward 2 (Colleen Mayer, won the the St Vital seat for the PCs)
- St James James - Assiniboia - King Edward Deer Loge Ward (Scott Johnston, won the St James for the PCs)
- River-East Transcona - Ward 3 (Wayne Ritcher fired for moving to another school division)

[Hatman 🍁]

What difference does it make whether those school board byelections are on the same day or not? They are in two totally different parts of the city, there are no cost savings i can think of...

- You can share advertising costs. One ad with information on both by-elections, instead of two separate ads.

While at the subject,
You might need to change the title since Winnipeg has 3 separate school board by-elections for Saturday June 11/2016.  
If you are wondering, Winnipeg has 6+ separate school divisions.

Two of vacancies  were the results of the recent provincial election, and one was the result of a trustee being fired after moving to another school division.

- Louis Riel  - Ward 2 (Colleen Mayer, won the the St Vital seat for the PCs)
- St James James - Assiniboia - King Edward Deer Loge Ward (Scott Johnston, won the St James for the PCs)
- River-East Transcona - Ward 3 (Wayne Ritcher fired for moving to another school division)

Thanks for this. For the title, I'm only including "major" local by-elections. I'm excluding school board elections for all cities except Toronto because school board by-elections tend to get less than 5% turnout while in Toronto they get a bit of a attention for some reason.  (I also excluded a by-election on Monday in Seguin Twp., Ontario, pop. 4,000)

However, that's not to say we can't discuss these Winnipeg school board by-elections. Why does Winnipeg have six boards to begin with?

[trebor204]

Winnipeg started with 9 school divisions.

Not sure why Winnipeg has so many school division.
The only reason I think of was  The city of Winnipeg was amalgamated with the surrounding municipalities (ie. Fort Garry, North Kildonan, etc) in 1972, and the former municipalities kept their existing school districts. About 10 years ago the Manitoba Government did reduce the number of the school districts within the province, and Winnipeg went down from 9 to 6.

Turnout at school by-elections are very low. The last school board by-election paired without a city-council election had only 6%.

[Poirot]

Results of the Montréal-Nord borough mayor by-election. Easy win for the Coderre candidate. Projet Montréal had a black woman candidate; Coderre had a white woman despite the name.
There were two independents also on the ballot. Turnout was 20,57%


BLACK, Christine  7 577   68,60%
Équipe Coderre pour Montréal   

MIBEL, Kerlande  2 553   23,11%
Projet Montréal      

MASSICOTTE, Jacques  614   5,56%
Indépendant

TEFFAHA, Rached  301   2,73%
Indépendant

[Hatman 🍁]

Thanks, Poirot. We've missed some Quebec municipal by-elections, but there are still some coming up:

May 1: Sainte-Adèle mayoral by-election (and 2 council by-elections)
May 15: Council by-elections in Baie-Comeau and Val-d'Or
May 22: Brownsburg-Chatham mayoral by-election (and 2 council by-elections)

[RogueBeaver]

Either Doug or Mike Ford will run for Rob's Ward 2 council seat if a by-election is called. Tory supports a by-election.

[Hatman 🍁]

Why the TDSB holds school board by-elections while more important offices like city council have to have by-elections approved by council makes no sense.

[136or142]

Either Doug or Mike Ford will run for Rob's Ward 2 council seat if a by-election is called. Tory supports a by-election.

So, Doug Ford has given up on seeking the Conservative Party leadership?

[RogueBeaver]

PKP quitting politics for family reasons. By-election for St. Jerome.

[Hatman 🍁]

The municipality of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec held by-elections yesterday for mayor and 2 council seats. The municipality is located in the Laurentians, 70km north of Montreal. It's population is 12,000.

Three candidates ran for mayor. Lise Gendron and Pierre Morabito are former city councillors and Robert Milot is a local businessman, who ran for the CAQ in the last two provincial elections. All three candidates are independents, though "Parti vision citoyens" (Citizen Vision Party) won all the seats on council in 2013.

Previous mayor Réjean Charbonneau resigned in January for health reasons. He was re-elected in 2013 without opposition.

Results:

Robert Milot: 1,442 (48.2%)
Lise Gendron: 825 (27.6%)
Pierre Morabito: 726 (24.3%)

Though an independent, Milot's favoured candidates won the two council by-elections.

[Hatman 🍁]

PKP quitting politics for family reasons. By-election for St. Jerome.

Wow.

[RogueBeaver]

By-election for Rob Ford's council seat. Mike Ford will run.

[adma]

I think this Toronto Star editorial depicts the underpinning of why the Whitby-Oshawa byelection had so few polling divisions

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/09/make-an-investment-in-ontarios-democracy-editorial.html

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And in so doing, Elections Ontario, you piece-of-garbage idiots *ruined* any fine-granular-detail value the existing polling-division network had.

[Hatman 🍁]

Quite sad, and another reason to hate the Toronto Star.

[adma]

Quite sad, and another reason to hate the Toronto Star.

I wouldn't scapegoat the Star--the editorial don't really dwell on the polling division/subdivision issue, and to be fair, most people other than hardcore electoral statisticians wouldn't twig onto the matter, either.  Not that it *couldn't* be made into a sexy "bring back the long form census" issue, though, esp. with electronic mapping technology making poll-by-poll electoral maps more prevalent and accessible-to-the-public than they've ever been--only to be stomped by this galoomphing Monty Python foot...

[adma]

Here's Elections Ontario's official statement

http://www.elections.on.ca/content/dam/NGW/sitecontent/2016/2016-whitby-oshawa-by-election-report/Media%20Release%20for%20Whitby-Oshawa%20By-election%20Report1.pdf?src=Carousel

And again, it's about "efficiencies"; but nothing mentioned specifically about the radical reduction in polling subdivisions--probably because as long as the elections work more smoothly and efficiently than before, people in general are satisfied; that's the operating logic here.  And only the hardcore psephological monomaniacs would be served by maintaining the old polling-subvision system, so it's not (to Elections Ontario) worth dwelling upon.

All in all, it reminds me of the highway downloads and municipal mega-amalgamations run amok during the Harris regime...

[lilTommy]

Some possible confirmation of why Rathika Jumped to the Liberals, feels like the riding was being "saved" for someone else; On Friday (just seeing this now) Neethan Shan posted on Facebook that he IS indeed going to run for the NDP nomination. He just recently (back in January) won a TDSB by-election, and has run for the NDP in Scarborough-Rouge River 2 twice now.

[RogueBeaver]

Scarborough-Rouge River: Tories are renominating Cho.

[lilTommy]

Scarborough-Rouge River: Tories are renominating Cho.

Solid score for the PCs again, came in a very close third in 2014 (LIB 38%, NDP 30% PC 27%)

... "The Scarborough councillor, who ran for the federal New Democratic party in 1988, and later joined the Liberals, surprised many by becoming the riding’s PC candidate in 2014." He's all over the place.
If Rathika wins the NDP nomination, all three main party candidates will have at one point run for the NDP

[RogueBeaver]

Calgary Heritage: Harper will quit Parliament before the fall sitting.

[Hatman 🍁]

Brownsburg-Chatham, a municipality of 7000 people ~70km west of Montreal elected a new mayor Sunday.

Results:
Catherine Trickey: 501 (32.6%)
Daniel Massie: 461 (30.0%)
André McNicoll: 304 (19.8%)
Pierre Leclerc: 269 (17.5%)

Trickey was the councillor for District 5.

[RogueBeaver]

Scarborough-Rouge River: NDP nominating a perennial candidate.

[DL]

Scarborough-Rouge River: NDP nominating a perennial candidate.

You know sometimes these perennial candidates eventually hit the jackpot. Wayne Gates had run and lost for the NDP in Niagara Falls quite a few times before finally winning the byelection in 2014 and then getting re-elected in the general election!