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

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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.

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

Wow.

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

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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.

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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!

federally Dan Harris won 2011 In Scarborough Southwest, he ran half a dozen times before being elected, before being knocked off by Bill-weed-is-still-a-crime-Blair

Irene Mathyssen won a bunch of times too, though that was after she was swept up in the 1990 orange crush.

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If Shan wins, it would be hilarious for the TDSB would have to run a fifth by-election in just two years. These necessary by-elections with single digit turnouts are going to cripple the board.

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There's people like Alain Giguere who ran a bunch of paper campaigns (7 in his case) in Quebec until winning big in 2011.

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Ahh cool, a by-election in Ottawa. Should be fun

If the NDP were to win a majority government, they'd probably win Ottawa-Vanier, but they're not near that right now. A star candidate might make things interesting. The riding does include some of the most left wing parts of the city (Sandy Hill & Lower Town).

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Fleury I am pretty sure is a Liberal. He's the mayor's biggest ally on council, and he's surrounded by the local Liberal machine.  Fleury might actually be a potential Liberal candidate. Another councillor in this riding with Liberal connections is Tim Tierney. Not sure if he is bilingual though, which is crucial in this riding. The riding's third councillor is Tobi Nussbaum, who is more progressive. Not sure of his partisan politics, but he is in his first term, so doubt he will run.

Speaking of school trustees, former OCDSB trustee Bronwyn Funicello (who ran in Ottawa South for the NDP recently) actually lives in Ottawa-Vanier and represented part of the riding. Could be a possible candidate.

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The Liberals love their mid-summer by-elections, don't they?

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Oh and, re:Ottawa-Vanier, Mathieu Fleury might be considering a run. Almost certain it will be for the Liberals.

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Whitby, North Ward by-election results:

Rhonda Mulcahy: 1950 (36%)
Sean Perkins: 1147 (21%)
Nathan Staneland: 1054 (20%)
Sameena Asgar: 427 (8%)
Keith McCaughley: 380 (7%)
Ron Lane: 199 (4%)
Christian Pritchard: 184 (3%)
Dave Sansom: 37 (1%)

By-election was called to replace cllr Derrick Gleed who was appointed to Durham Regional council following Lorne Coe's resignation to run in the recent Whitby-Oshawa provincial by-election (which he won for the Tories).

The ward covers the part of Whitby north of Taunton Rd, which is geographically mostly rural, but is home to some newer subdivisions and is dominated by the community of Brooklin.

Mulcahy is the publisher of the "Brooklin Town Crier" a community paper serving Brooklin.

Sean Perkins is the son of Pat Perkins, the former mayor of Whitby and former MP (Conservative).

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Next up, this Sunday there are several municipal by-elections in Quebec including District 5 in Mount Royal, a mayoral by-election in Donnacona, an exurb of Quebec City and a mayoral by-election in the south shore suburb of Delson.

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Donnacona mayoral results:

Jean-Claude Léveillée: 949
Isabelle Blackburn: 311

Delson:

Christian Ouellette (Ind.): 1008
Stéphane Perrault (Action Delson): 917

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16 votes for the anti-wall candidate? Mount Royal residents love their wall. Gotta keep those Mexicans dirty hippies in Parc-Extension out! I suppose they're all backing Trump too?

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Since when is Parc-Extension a neighbourhood of 'dirty hippies'?

I was being facetious.

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In the underwhelming battle of the backed progressives for the TDSB by-election in Toronto Centre-Rosedale, Chris Moise won.
Moise was backed by both NDP aligned Councillors Pam McConnell and Kristyn Wong-Tam and unions OSSTF and CUPE. On the other side Li Koo was the Liberal, supported by MPP Glen Murray, MP Chrystia Freeland, as a former TDSB chair and MPP Donna Cansfield.

Moise - 36%
Koo - 28%
http://election.toronto.ca/epr2014/eprDetail.do?114 - Turnout was low, as to be expected. 15% or so if I did the math right.

https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2016/06/20/chris-moise-elected-new-toronto-centre-rosedale-trustee.html

15% is very good for a school board by-election.

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Miramichi NB mayor Gerry Cormier died of a heart attack yesterday.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/miramichi-gerry-cormier-dies-1.3643020

According to Elections NB, there are "municipal by-elections" scheduled for November 14, but don't say which ones. I'd imagine it's a planned date for any vacancies that should occur between the last elections and then, so I guess Miramichi will get a by-election then.

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I'm thinking Trudeau pulls the trigger on all three vacant/future vacant Alberta seats for the same day... probably looking at a late October / November date depending on when Harper and Kenney resign.

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This is rather morbid speculation, considering Belanger is still alive. Is there talk of him stepping down?

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Geez, how did I miss that by-election?

There were also two school board races last night (York Centre and Etobicoke North)

Results:
Ward 2, city council (top 2 candidates):
Michael Ford: 6534 (69.6%)
Jeff Canning: 1918 (20.4%)

TDSB, Etobicoke North (top 3 candidates):
Avtar Minhas: 2666 (29.7%)
John Hastings: 2047 (22.8%)
Ali Mohamed-Ali: 1216 (13.5%)

TDSB, York Centre (top 3 candidates):
Alexandra Luika: 1464 (31.7%)
Erica Shiner: 1348 (29.2%)
Nina Zaslavsky: 607 (13.2%)

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Summerside-Wilmot MLA Janice Sherry has resigned her seat.

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RIP. Ottawa-Vanier now without federal and provincial representation. When was the last time a riding was vacant federally and provincially?

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Oh yeah, I forgot about those Manitoba by-election.

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The latest province wide poll in Ontario has the Liberals crashing to 28% with the Pcs up at 42% and the NDP at 23% - the way the votes are distributed that could mean a PC majority and NDP as official opposition. Also if you extrapolate that trend the Liberals should be in deep danger of losing Scarborough-Rouge River!

Yes, but unfortunately it means a PC win there