2006 Winnipeg municipal election explained

The 2006 Winnipeg municipal election was held on October 25, 2006, to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Sam Katz was re-elected Mayor of Winnipeg over left-leaning challenger Marianne Cerilli.

Results

Council

School Trustees

St. James-Assiniboia School Division

2006 Winnipeg election, Trustee, River East Transcona School Division, Ward One (two members elected)
CandidateTotal votes% of total votes
(incumbent)Linda Archer4,24024.30
Cheryl Smukowich3,46219.84
(incumbent)Bruce Chegus3,33119.09
Grant Crosbie3,26318.70
Denyse Lambert2,01711.56
Kent Whiteside1,1346.50
Total valid votes17,447100.00

River East Transcona School Division

2006 Winnipeg election, Trustee, River East Transcona School Division, Ward One (two members elected)
CandidateTotal votes% of total votes
(incumbent)Colleen Carswell4,33638.35
George Marshall3,83833.95
Wayne Laniuk3,13227.70
Total valid votes11,306100.00

Post-election changes

John Orlikow resigned his seat on the Winnipeg School Board to run for a vacant seat on the Winnipeg City Council.

March 17, 2009 by-election, Winnipeg School Division, Ward One
CandidateTotal votes% of total votes
Rita Hildahl2,42737.92
Gary Brownstone1,36221.28
Colin Fast1,04716.36
Barbara Coombs97515.23
Shane Nestruck3455.39
Carlos James2453.83
Total valid votes6,401100.00

Notes and References

  1. "'Big boats' popular with Prairie landlubbers", Globe and Mail, March 3, 1984, CL6.
  2. Mary Agnes Welch, "It's a low-key race east of Red River", Winnipeg Free Press, October 24, 2006, B2.
  3. Nick Martin, "School board rivals go back to basics", Winnipeg Free Press, January 28, 1994; "Archer wins school board byelection", Winnipeg Free Press, February 3, 1994.
  4. Nick Martin, "Trustees keep autonomy", Winnipeg Free Press, March 17, 2002, A3; Nick Martin, "Caldwell takes over division budgets", Winnipeg Free Press, June 17, 2002, A1.
  5. "Manitoba will allow teachers to take class size to arbitration", Canadian Press, October 28, 2002, 22:18.
  6. Nick Martin, "School board system safe", Winnipeg Free Press, March 15, 2003, A3.
  7. "MAST vote to permit president second term", Winnipeg Free Press, March 16, 2003, A3.
  8. Aldo Santin, "Parents praise open-book school board", Winnipeg Free Press, January 29, 1996, A5. There is a banker in Winnipeg named Bruce Chegus, who works at Great-West Life Assurance. He holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree, and was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1979. This may be the same person. See Paul Waldie, "Insurance should be high on priority list", Financial Post, April 23, 1993, 14.
  9. Nick Martin, "Parents balk at day-care rent proposal", Winnipeg Free Press, April 8, 1999, A8; Nick Martin, "Revenue crunch to hit in-school day-care centres", Winnipeg Free Press, May 8, 2000, A3.
  10. Nick Martin, "School bus walkout exposes deep divisions among trustees", Winnipeg Free Press, December 10, 2000, A4.
  11. Nick Martin, "Board bounces name-change policy to committee", Winnipeg Free Press, October 20, 2005, B4.
  12. Nick Martin, "Losing trustee asks for recount", Winnipeg Free Press, November 9, 2006, B5.
  13. http://saxcanqanda.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html Saxology Canada Questions and Answers
  14. Shane Nestruck, "Cleverley's word games" [letter], November 14, 1995, A13.
  15. See for instance Shane Nestruck, "CBC a trusted source" [editorial], Winnipeg Free Press, June 30, 2006, A14.
  16. See for instance Shane Nestruck, "Keep Quebec columns coming" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, November 19, 1995, A9.
  17. "Soviet sax player hopes to remain in Canada", Globe and Mail, March 27, 1991, C2.
  18. "New quartet blends jazz and classical", Winnipeg Free Press, March 24, 1997, C6.
  19. Chris Smith, "Big-band sound coming to city", Winnipeg Free Press, October 20, 1997, C4.
  20. "WHA elects board", Winnipeg Free Press, December 15, 2004, A3.
  21. Shane Nestruck, "Column exposes shallowness of war" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, April 11, 2003, A13; Shane Nestruck, "Readers seem unaware Americans oppose war" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, April 24, 2003, A17.
  22. Shane Nestruck, "Barlow determined to see return to values", Winnipeg Free Press, November 13, 2005, B7.
  23. Shane Nestruck, "High speed transit key to future" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, December 23, 2003, A11; Shane Nestruck, "All great cities have LRT systems" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, July 5, 2004, A11.
  24. Shane Nestruck, "Time for Katz to quit" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, April 13, 2006, A11.
  25. Mia Rabson, "Disgruntled NDPer says he'll run in Fort Rouge", Winnipeg Free Press, August 15, 2006, B3.
  26. Mia Rabson, "Fort Rouge to choose 'real' NDP: Moderates, leftist vie for party stronghold", Winnipeg Free Press, October 10, 2006, A4.
  27. Martin Cash, "Howard elected to run for NDP in Fort Rouge", Winnipeg Free Press, November 23, 2006, A6.
  28. "Manitoba wing of the Green Party to elect leader within a few weeks", Canadian Press, October 16, 2008, 10:41 pm.
  29. Shane Nestruck, "Electoral system flawed" [letter], Winnipeg Free Press, December 6, 2008, A18.
  30. Shane Nestruck, "Canada has its own brand of orthodoxy" [letter], Toronto Star, December 15, 2008, A7; Shane Nestruck, "Stop-gap budget denies causes of crisis", Ottawa Citizen, January 29, 2009, A9.
  31. Tamara King, "Winnipeg gets tough on drunk drivers", Toronto Star, December 16, 2007, A7.
  32. Nick Martin, "Pressing issues face trustee hopefuls", Winnipeg Free Press, March 16, 2009, B1. See also "Clarification", Winnipeg Free Press, March 18, 2009, A2.
  33. http://www.cbc.ca/uptospeed/2009/05/the_greenest_manitoban.html "The Greenest Manitoban"