1997 Hamilton, Ontario, municipal election explained

Election Name:2000 Hamilton municipal election
Flag Image:Flag_of_Hamilton.svg
Country:Canada
Type:Parliamentary
Ongoing:No
Previous Election:1994 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election
Previous Year:1994
Next Election:2000 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election
Next Year:2000
Election Date:November 10, 1997
Candidate1:Bob Morrow
Colour1:FF9966
Popular Vote1:58,414
Percentage1:75.11%
Candidate2:Dave Snowdon
Colour2:5D8AA8
Popular Vote2:4,996
Percentage2:6.41%
Image4:

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Candidate4:Kristina Heaton
Colour4:00563F
Popular Vote4:4,642
Percentage4:5.98%
Candidate5:Brian McHattie
Colour5:FF7F00
Popular Vote5:4,254
Percentage5:5.46%
Map Size:300px
Mayor
Before Election:Bob Morrow
After Election:Bob Morrow

The 1997 Hamilton municipal election was a municipal election held on November 10, 1997, to elect municipal officials for the City of Hamilton. Hamiltonions selected one mayor, one regional chairperson, and seventeen members of the Hamilton City Council, who were elected on a two-tier basis, as well as members of both the English and French Public and Catholic School Boards.[1] The suburban communities of Ancaster, Flambrough, Glanbrook, Dundas and Stoney Creek, each elected town councils for the last time before amalgamation.[2]

Voter turnout remained steady in 1997, amidst events such as Premier Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution service cuts, the Plastimet Fire, and plebiscites on smoking by-laws and a proposed casino.[2]

New measures

For the 1997 election, the City of Hamilton switched from paper ballots to a new automated voting system. This system saw voters mark their choices on a paper ballot, enclose it in a 'privacy sleeve' and feed it into a computer that automatically tabulated the results.[3]

Referendums

|- style="text-align:center;background:#E9E9E9;"! colspan="7" | Hamilton, Ontario, Municipal referendums, 1997|- style="text-align:center;background:#E9E9E9;"! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Question! colspan="2" | Yes! colspan="2" | No! colspan="2" | Voter Turnout|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| style="text-align:center;" | Votes| style="text-align:center;" |%| style="text-align:center;" |Votes| style="text-align:center;" |%| style="text-align:center;" |Votes| style="text-align:center;" |%|-| style="text-align:left;" | Smoking Control Bylaw - Banning smoking in restaurants and bars| style="text-align:right;" |50,817| style="text-align:right;" |66.89%| style="text-align:right;" |25,156| style="text-align:right;" |33.11%| style="text-align:right;" |75,973 | style="text-align:right;" ||-| style="text-align:left;" | Provincial Casino - Approval to build a casino in Hamilton| style="text-align:right;" |28275| style="text-align:right;" |36.97%| style="text-align:right;" |48,211| style="text-align:right;" |63.03%| style="text-align:right;" |76,486 | style="text-align:right;" ||-|colspan="7" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ||- style="background:"#FFFFFF";"| colspan="5" style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF"| Total Voters!style="text-align:center;background-color:#FFFFFF"|!style="text-align:center;background-color:#FFFFFF"||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |Note: Vote totals for each question were different as voters did not need to vote on each question |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources: [4] |}

Mayoral Election

Official Candidates

Results

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FF9966;" || style="text-align:left;" | Bob Morrow (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" |58,486| style="text-align:right;" |75.11%| style="text-align:right;" |-12.11%|-| style="background-color:#5D8AA8;" || style="text-align:left;" | Dave Snowdon| style="text-align:right;" |4,998| style="text-align:right;" |6.41%| style="text-align:right;" |n/a|-| style="background-color:#00563F;" || style="text-align:left;" | Kristina Heaton| style="text-align:right;" |4,647| style="text-align:right;" |5.98%| style="text-align:right;" |n/a|-| style="background-color:#FF7F00;" || style="text-align:left;" | Brian McHattie| style="text-align:right;" |4,255| style="text-align:right;" |5.46%| style="text-align:right;" |n/a|-| style="background-color:#5D8AA8;" || style="text-align:left;" | Paul Decker| style="text-align:right;" |3,468| style="text-align:right;" |4.45%| style="text-align:right;" |-0.06%|-| style="background-color:#FCF75E;" || style="text-align:left;" | Waylon MacDonald| style="text-align:right;" |1,407| style="text-align:right;" |1,81%| style="text-align:right;" |n/a|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Wendell Fields| style="text-align:right;" |611| style="text-align:right;" |0.78%| style="text-align:right;" |n/a|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |77,872| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |100%| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |n/a| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |n/a| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |n/a|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources: [10] |}

City Council election

Ward 1

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#ff0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Mary Kiss (Incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" |4,560| style="text-align:right;" |29.2%| style="text-align:right;" | |-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Marvin Caplan (Incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" |4,125| style="text-align:right;" |26.4%| style="text-align:right;" ||-| style="background-color:#0fa826;" || style="text-align:left;" | Cam Nolan| style="text-align:right;" | 3,848| style="text-align:right;" | 25%| style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#cc1bc0;" || style="text-align:left;" | Sarah Whatmough| style="text-align:right;" | 3,059| style="text-align:right;" | 19.4%| style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |15,589| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 2

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#F39237;" || style="text-align:left;" | Andrea Horwath| style="text-align:right;" |3,587| style="text-align:right;" |28.1%| style="text-align:right;" | |-| style="background-color:#D63230;" || style="text-align:left;" | Ron Corsini| style="text-align:right;" |3,364| style="text-align:right;" |26.4%| style="text-align:right;" | |-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Vince Agro (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" |3,346| style="text-align:right;" |44.5%| style="text-align:right;" |±0%|-| style="background-color:#002E63;" || style="text-align:left;" | Bill McCulloch (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" |2,605| style="text-align:right;" |34.63%| style="text-align:right;" |+0.9%|-| style="background-color:#4c7a8a"|| style="text-align:left;" | Jason Capobianco| style="text-align:right;" | 902| style="text-align:right;" | 7.1%| style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#794c8a;" || style="text-align:left;" | John Kenyon| style="text-align:right;" | 512| style="text-align:right;" | 4%| style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#b2c953;" || style="text-align:left;" | Jim Savage| style="text-align:right;" | 208| style="text-align:right;" | 1.6%| style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |12,767| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 3

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Bernie Morelli (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 4,229| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#D44D5C;" || style="text-align:left;" | Dennis Haining| style="text-align:right;" | 1,989| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Sam Merulla| style="text-align:right;" | 1,728| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#796fd1;" || style="text-align:left;" | Elena Lazar| style="text-align:right;" | 1,372| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#d69004;" || style="text-align:left;" | Bob Stewart| style="text-align:right;" | 985| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#86bd33;" || style="text-align:left;" | Joyce Rattray| style="text-align:right;" | 917| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#5677fc;" || style="text-align:left;" | Dwain Burns| style="text-align:right;" | 536| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#db63a7;" || style="text-align:left;" | Kattie Calleja| style="text-align:right;" | 496| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#db63a7;" || style="text-align:left;" | Melvin Boudreau| style="text-align:right;" | 213| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 4

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#F46F1B;" || style="text-align:left;" | Dave Wilson (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 4,892| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Geraldine Copps (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 3,659| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#800080;" || style="text-align:left;" | Murray Kilgour| style="text-align:right;" | 2,720| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 5

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Chad Collins| style="text-align:right;" | 5,347| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#66023C;" || style="text-align:left;" | Fred Eisenberger (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 4,546| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#f2eb5c;" || style="text-align:left;" | Rita Chimienti| style="text-align:right;" | 2,866| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#6500ff;" || style="text-align:left;" | Rocco Restauri| style="text-align:right;" | 2,192| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#edaf79;" || style="text-align:left;" | Margaret Cunningham| style="text-align:right;" | 1,828| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 6

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#002E63;" || style="text-align:left;" | Tom Jackson (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 7,938| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#3F00FF;" || style="text-align:left;" | Bob Charters (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 6,093| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#309113;" || style="text-align:left;" | Paul Lewis Settimi| style="text-align:right;" | 4958| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#663854;" || style="text-align:left;" | Charles Eleveld| style="text-align:right;" | 1,789| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 7

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#6495ED;" || style="text-align:left;" | Terry Anderson (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 8,721| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#FF0800;" || style="text-align:left;" | Bill Kelly| style="text-align:right;" | 8,112| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#00008B;" || style="text-align:left;" | Henry Merling (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 6,040| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#0047AB;" || style="text-align:left;" | Mark Whittle| style="text-align:right;" | 1,203| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#63b04c;" || style="text-align:left;" | Eduardo Navarro| style="text-align:right;" | 1,182| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Ward 8

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Frank D'Amico (incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 8,400| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#FFD8BE;" || style="text-align:left;" | Duke O'Sullivan| style="text-align:right;" | 6,155| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#8DB600;" || style="text-align:left;" | Tom Murray| style="text-align:right;" | 3,463| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#FF0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Mike Oddi| style="text-align:right;" | 2,230| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#22700a;" || style="text-align:left;" | Judith Preston| style="text-align:right;" | 1,904| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#5ddff0;" || style="text-align:left;" | Tony Di Prospero| style="text-align:right;" | 749| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#791E7D;" || style="text-align:left;" | Chris Kiriakopoulos| style="text-align:right;" | 696| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#4d2a91;" || style="text-align:left;" | Vish Bagal| style="text-align:right;" | 632| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Public School Trustee Elections

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#B57EDC;" || style="text-align:left;" | Judith Bishop (Incumbent)| style="text-align:right;" | 8,042| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#4ec6f2;" || style="text-align:left;" | John Tickle| style="text-align:right;" | 2,278| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#fa4a1e;" || style="text-align:left;" | Eleanor Johnstone| style="text-align:right;" | 1,595| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#FF7F00;" || style="text-align:left;" | Robert Barlow| style="text-align:right;" | 1,056| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#397520;" || style="text-align:left;" | Julie Gordon| style="text-align:right;" | 703| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#0d52bf;" || style="text-align:left;" | Neville Nunes| style="text-align:right;" | 532| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Expenditures|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#8DB600"|| style="text-align:left;" | Ray E. Mulholland (Incumbent)!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Acclaimed|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[19] |}

Incumbent Ward 5 trustee, Reverend Joe Rogers, sought re-election in 1997. First elected in 1968, Rogers was the executive-director of St. Matthew's House and an Anglican priest in area churches.[20] Mark Davies, the former executive director of the Mental Health Rights Coalition of Hamilton-Wentworth and independent candidate in Wentworth East in the 1995 Ontario provincial election had initially filed to contest the seat, but withdrew before the close of nominations.[21]

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:left;" | Joe Rogers (Incumbent)!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Acclaimed|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#00BFFF;" || style="text-align:left;" | Laura Peddle| style="text-align:right;" | 2,954| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#f5a020;" || style="text-align:left;" | Janice Wall| style="text-align:right;" | 2,204| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#e86d61;" || style="text-align:left;" | Marla Robinson| style="text-align:right;" | 1,783| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote=|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|| style="text-align:left;" | Lillian Orban (Incumbent)!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Acclaimed|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[19] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|| style="text-align:left;" | Wes Hicks (Incumbent)!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Acclaimed|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[19] |}

Catholic School Trustee Elections

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#3c27f5;" || style="text-align:left;" | Leo Blain| style="text-align:right;" | 1,783| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#319aa8;" || style="text-align:left;" | William Laidlaw| style="text-align:right;" | 1,596| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#ff0303;" || style="text-align:left;" | Ralph Agostino| style="text-align:right;" | 2,515| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#23a88b;" || style="text-align:left;" | Danuta Bortolussi| style="text-align:right;" | 1,842| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#fc0000;" || style="text-align:left;" | Rose Agostino| style="text-align:right;" | 1,915| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#57b57e;" || style="text-align:left;" | Joseph Spatazzo| style="text-align:right;" | 1,856| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#6d1670;" || style="text-align:left;" | Benedicta Egbo| style="text-align:right;" | 382| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FFD12A;" || style="text-align:left;" | Kyran Kennedy| style="text-align:right;" | 2,191| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#41f4f4;" || style="text-align:left;" | Joseph Baiardo| style="text-align:right;" | 1,779| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#FFFFFF"|| style="text-align:left;" | Pat Daly (Incumbent)!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Acclaimed|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="5" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[19] |}

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#64abd1;" || style="text-align:left;" | Tom Gallagher| style="text-align:right;" | 2,595| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#a517c2;" || style="text-align:left;" | Michelle Rizzato| style="text-align:right;" | 1,554| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#78710c;" || style="text-align:left;" | Phil Consalvo| style="text-align:right;" | 462| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |12,767| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

French Public School Trustee Election

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#086b03;" || style="text-align:left;" | Jean Desmarais| style="text-align:right;" | 87| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#146c9c;" || style="text-align:left;" | Agnes Gizard| style="text-align:right;" | 56| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

French Catholic School Trustee Election

|-!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate!colspan="3"|Popular vote|-! Votes! %! ±%|-| style="background-color:#0892D0;" || style="text-align:left;" | Marcel Levesque| style="text-align:right;" | 363| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="background-color:#c85ccc;" || style="text-align:left;" | Pascale Harster| style="text-align:right;" | 229| style="text-align:right;" || style="text-align:right;" | -|-| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters| style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" || style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" ||- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" |Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
|- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources:[10] |}

Suburban Town Council Elections

Ancaster

CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Mayor[22]
Bob Wade (incumbent)acclaimed
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Deputy-Mayor
Ann Sloat (incumbent)3,21857%
Phil Winer2,46743%
Total valid votes5,685100.00
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Ward One Councillor
Murray Ferguson (incumbent)acclaimed
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Ward Two Councillor
Barry Kent62264%
Scott McCallum35536%
Total valid votes977100.00
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Ward Three Councillor
Brad Khun (incumbent)acclaimed
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Ward Four Councillor
Bryan Kerman (incumbent)79351%
Larry Weber77349%
Total valid votes1566100.00
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Ward Five Councillor
Luanne Robertson (incumbent)acclaimed
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Catholic School Board Trustee
Carolyn Cornale (incumbent)1,27553%
Philomena Newberry1,114437%
Total valid votes2,389100.00
CandidateVotes%
Ancaster Public School Board Trustee
Bruce Wallace (incumbent)acclaimed

See also

Notes and References

  1. Clairmont, Susan. "This time, the choice is all about change," The Hamilton Spectator, November 10, 1997, Local News (A4)
  2. Clairmont, "This time, the choice is all about change," (A4)
  3. Clairmont, Susan. "Who is eligible, and new machines," The Hamilton Spectator, November 10, 1997, Local News (A4)
  4. News: Butt out on smoking and no dice for casino . Lee . Prokaska . November 11, 1997 . Hamilton Spectator.
  5. Cox, Christine. "Still fire in Morrow's belly," The Hamilton Spectator, November 11, 1997, Election Review (B1).
  6. Prokaska, Lee. "Mountain resident off and running for mayor," The Hamilton Spectator, October 7, 1997, Local News (A10).
  7. Cox, Christine. "A reach for the top: Six mayoral challengers want to take Bob Morrow's job away from him," The Hamilton Spectator, October 29, 1997, Local News (A4).
  8. The Hamilton Spectator. "Environmentalist in mayor's race: Brian McHattie enters bid to unseat Bob Morrow", The Hamilton Spectator, October 10, 1997, Local News (A5).
  9. Cox, Christine. "Decker facing jail term: Ex-mayoralty candidate pleads guilty to theft, fraud charges", April 9, 1998, Local News (A3)."
  10. News: Election Results . 12 November 1997 . Hamilton Spectator.
  11. Hughes, Rick. "Voters cozy up to Kiss, Caplan: Tough campaigns fall short for Nolan and Whatmough", November 11, 1997, Election Review (B7).
  12. Huges, "Voters cozy up to Kiss, Caplan: Tough campaigns fall short for Nolan and Whatmough" (B7).
  13. McNeil, Mark. "Voters clean house, boot out incumbents: Horwath, Corsini sweep into office," The Hamilton Spectator, November 11, 1997, Election Review (B3).
  14. McNeil. "Voters clean house, boot out incumbents: Horwath, Corsini sweep into office," (B3).
  15. Dreschel, Andrew. "Time for new blood at city hall," The Hamilton Spectator, August 20, 1997, Local News (A3).
  16. Dreschel. "Time for new blood at city hall," (A3).
  17. McNeil, Mark. "Heart problems: A declining downtown and fallout from Plastimet fire top issues in Ward 2," The Hamilton Spectator, October 31, 1997, Local News (A8).
  18. McNeil. "Heart problems: A declining downtown and fallout from Plastimet fire top issues in Ward 2," (A8).
  19. News: They're off: Who's running for what civic office . 11 October 1997 . Hamilton Spectator.
  20. News: Cared deeply for less fortunate; Canon Rogers was a compassionate member of community who touched many lives . Carmela . Fragomeni . 16 December 2003 . Hamilton Spectator.
  21. News: Snapshot: Stoney Creek . 18 November 2000 . Hamilton Spectator.
  22. Hanley, Mike. "Two new faces for Ancaster: Majority of council unchanged," The Hamilton Spectator, November 11, 1997, Election Review (B7)