Parts of this article (those related to 20 February 2007) need to be updated.(November 2010) |
The Brampton municipal election, 2006 took place on 13 November 2006, to elect a mayor, five regional councillors and five city councillors in the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It was held in conjunction with all other municipalities in Ontario. See 2006 Ontario municipal elections.
It was referred to as CityVote 2006 by the city's website.
The nomination period ended on Friday 29 September 2006; thirty candidates registered in the two weeks prior. Six candidates withdrew after this point, before the cut-off of 5 pm Monday. There was a total of 96 candidates running for political office.
Over the various days of voting, 68,186 Brampton residents cast ballots; there were 226,869 registered voters in the city at the time. [1] This means there was a 30.8% turn-out.
Candidate | Vote | % |
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Susan Fennell (incumbent, winner) | 51,036 | 74.8 |
Raj Sharda | 9,585 | 14.1 |
John R. A. Moulton | 4,007 | 5.9 |
Sunny Gandhi | 2,343 | 3.4 |
Amjid Iqbal | 1,215 | 1.8 |
OFFICIAL WEBSITE | GUARDIAN ARTICLE[ permanent dead link]
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GUARDIAN ARTICLE[ permanent dead link], stating Iqbal did not participate in interviews.
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Long-time incumbent Elaine Moore had three people interested in replacing her as Regional Councillor; she won her re-election with a strong majority.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Bill Bousfield | 692 | 6.69 |
Janet Hamilton | 1620 | 15.67 |
Tejinder Lamba | 847 | 8.19 |
Elaine Moore, incumbent, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 7182 | 69.45 |
Incumbent Grant Gibson had six candidates challenging his re-election; he was re-elected by over half of participating voters. Gibson had held the seat for more than a decade, as of the election day.
Among his challengers was Stephanie Beaumier, daughter of Brampton West MP Colleen Beaumier. As he dropped out of the campaign after nomination lists were finalised, Malcolm Jones' name still appeared on the ballots. Despite no longer officially running, he took fourth place, out of seven.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Stephanie Beaumier OFFICIAL WEBSITE[ permanent dead link] | 3215 | 30.84 |
Grant Gibson, incumbent, winner | 5335 | 51.17 |
Malcolm Jones OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 320 | 3.07 |
Larry Lee OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 256 | 2.46 |
Jeffrey Schrik OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2009-11-20 at the Wayback Machine | 194 | 1.86 |
Jagtar Shergill OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1034 | 9.92 |
Whoston Wray | 72 | 0.69 |
One of the longest sitting incumbents, Paul Palleschi had five people attempting to take him out of office. Palleschi received roughly 45% of the vote.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Vicky Colbourne OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1767 | 14.00 |
David Esho OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 548 | 4.34 |
Curtis Grant OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1653 | 13.10 |
Chuck Jeffrey OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1396 | 11.06 |
Paul Palleschi, incumbent, winner | 5766 | 45.68 |
Tejinder Singh | 1493 | 11.83 |
Incumbent John Hutton had ten candidates challenging his re-election, the most of any riding. Due to the berth of competition, he was only re-elected with 27% support. Among the challengers was Doug Whillans, son of Ken Whillans, a former Brampton mayor. As of election day, Hutton had held the seat for 21 years.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Derrick Coke OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1768 | 13.70 |
Jassi Dhillon | 185 | 1.43 |
Navdeep Gill WEBSITE UNARCHIVED | 1790 | 13.87 |
Ralph Irving Greene | 1466 | 11.36 |
Jim Howell | 535 | 4.15 |
John A. Hutton, incumbent, winner | 3552 | 27.53 |
Adrian Avinash Lalla | 45 | 0.35 |
Paul Mangat | 142 | 1.10 |
Mathew Njenga OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 454 | 3.52 |
Joyce Rodriguez OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1175 | 9.11 |
Doug Whillans ARCHIVED OFFICIAL WEBSITE[ permanent dead link] | 1792 | 13.89 |
Businessman and 2005 Brampton Citizen of the Year John Sanderson beat incumbent Susan DiMarco. One of four challengers, Sanderson had previous run and lost for the same ward in 2003. With a mere 292 votes dividing them, the race between Sanderson and DiMarco was the last to be declared in all of Peel.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Tibor Bankuti | 181 | 1.22 |
Susan DiMarco, incumbent OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 5431 | 36.60 |
Theo Goary | 463 | 3.12 |
John Sanderson, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2018-08-04 at the Wayback Machine | 5723 | 38.56 |
Sukhwant Thethi OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 3042 | 20.50 |
Incumbent Bob Callahan easily won this race. Once an MPP, Callahan won over his nearest competitor by 33.36%.
Babra's second-place finish was unexpected, as while he participated in a Brampton Guardian interview, he did not reply to The Toronto Star or The Brampton News/Wikinews. His email address was inactive throughout the duration of his campaign.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Balbir Babra | 3212 | 21.94 |
Manny Bianchi-Morfino | 264 | 1.80 |
Bob Callahan, incumbent, winner | 8094 | 55.30 |
Dolly Khokhar | 289 | 1.97 |
Maria Peart | 585 | 4.00 |
Tim Turcott | 251 | 1.71 |
Innocent Watat | 61 | 0.42 |
Sheila White OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1881 | 12.85 |
Long-time incumbent Gael Miles easily won the election for regional councillor (Wards 7 and 8), against political newcomer John Villella.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Gael Miles, incumbent OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2006-11-01 at the Wayback Machine | 11071 | 87.67 |
John Villella OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1557 | 12.33 |
Incumbent Sandra Hames won with little trouble, garnering also three out of every four votes.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Khalid Alvi as "K. Alvi", ran in 2003 election for city wards 7 & 8 | 1069 | 8.49 |
Tom Armstrong | 1269 | 10.07 |
Sandra Hames, incumbent OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 9317 | 73.96 |
Vaughn Parker | 212 | 1.68 |
John B. Spry, ran in 2003 election for wards 9 & 10. | 730 | 5.80 |
Incumbent John Sprovieri had six candidates challenging his re-election, which he won with 44.91% support. Among the challengers is Derek Begley, son of retired regional councillor Rhoda Begley. Johal is known in the ward as a star candidate. [26]
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Derek Begley OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1364 | 8.25 |
Sherdaljit Dhillon | 2148 | 12.99 |
Mahen Gupta | 760 | 4.60 |
Satpaul Johal | 3707 | 22.42 |
Dalbir S. Kathuria | 995 | 6.02 |
Vahid Saadati-Khanshir | 133 | 0.80 |
John Sprovieri, incumbent, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2006-10-22 at the Wayback Machine | 7425 | 44.91 |
Garnett Manning had five people contesting his seat, which he eventually lost to Vicky Dhillon. Manning had beat Dhillon by a slim amount in the 2003 election. At time of election, Dhillon was the Brampton—Springdale riding association president for the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario); it is unknown if he will retain this position. Among the other candidates was Daljit Gill, a one-term Peel District School Board trustee.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Stella Ambler OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 4029 | 23.80 |
Mandeep Dhaliwal OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 2879 | 17.01 |
Vicky Dhillon, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 4700 | 27.77 |
Daljit Gill | 620 | 3.66 |
Nalem Malik | 439 | 2.59 |
Garnett Manning, incumbent ARCHIVED OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 4259 | 25.16 |
The Peel District School Board runs a website about its trustees and their roles.
There is no incumbent in these wards, as one-term trustee Daljit Gill is running for city council.
Beryl Ford is the only person elected by acclamation to any political seat in Brampton; this is her eighth term as a trustee. [27]
There is no incumbent in these wards.
Debates in this ward received extremely small audiences. Eleven, then six people showed up to two separate evenings. [28]
There is no incumbent in these wards.
None of the incumbents are seeking re-election
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Mark David de Pelham | 53 | 46.90 |
Christine Guindy | 60 | 53.10 |
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Anne Burke-Gauthier | 183 | 55.29 |
Yvonne Musau Kabeya | 65 | 19.64 |
Rene Riopel | 83 | 25.08 |
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Parts of this article (those related to 20 February 2007) need to be updated.(November 2010) |
The Brampton municipal election, 2006 took place on 13 November 2006, to elect a mayor, five regional councillors and five city councillors in the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It was held in conjunction with all other municipalities in Ontario. See 2006 Ontario municipal elections.
It was referred to as CityVote 2006 by the city's website.
The nomination period ended on Friday 29 September 2006; thirty candidates registered in the two weeks prior. Six candidates withdrew after this point, before the cut-off of 5 pm Monday. There was a total of 96 candidates running for political office.
Over the various days of voting, 68,186 Brampton residents cast ballots; there were 226,869 registered voters in the city at the time. [1] This means there was a 30.8% turn-out.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Susan Fennell (incumbent, winner) | 51,036 | 74.8 |
Raj Sharda | 9,585 | 14.1 |
John R. A. Moulton | 4,007 | 5.9 |
Sunny Gandhi | 2,343 | 3.4 |
Amjid Iqbal | 1,215 | 1.8 |
OFFICIAL WEBSITE | GUARDIAN ARTICLE[ permanent dead link]
OFFICIAL WEBSITE | GUARDIAN INTERVIEW[ permanent dead link]
GUARDIAN ARTICLE[ permanent dead link], stating Iqbal did not participate in interviews.
GUARDIAN INTERVIEW[ permanent dead link]
OFFICIAL WEBSITE | GUARDIAN INTERVIEW[ permanent dead link]
Long-time incumbent Elaine Moore had three people interested in replacing her as Regional Councillor; she won her re-election with a strong majority.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Bill Bousfield | 692 | 6.69 |
Janet Hamilton | 1620 | 15.67 |
Tejinder Lamba | 847 | 8.19 |
Elaine Moore, incumbent, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 7182 | 69.45 |
Incumbent Grant Gibson had six candidates challenging his re-election; he was re-elected by over half of participating voters. Gibson had held the seat for more than a decade, as of the election day.
Among his challengers was Stephanie Beaumier, daughter of Brampton West MP Colleen Beaumier. As he dropped out of the campaign after nomination lists were finalised, Malcolm Jones' name still appeared on the ballots. Despite no longer officially running, he took fourth place, out of seven.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Stephanie Beaumier OFFICIAL WEBSITE[ permanent dead link] | 3215 | 30.84 |
Grant Gibson, incumbent, winner | 5335 | 51.17 |
Malcolm Jones OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 320 | 3.07 |
Larry Lee OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 256 | 2.46 |
Jeffrey Schrik OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2009-11-20 at the Wayback Machine | 194 | 1.86 |
Jagtar Shergill OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1034 | 9.92 |
Whoston Wray | 72 | 0.69 |
One of the longest sitting incumbents, Paul Palleschi had five people attempting to take him out of office. Palleschi received roughly 45% of the vote.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Vicky Colbourne OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1767 | 14.00 |
David Esho OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 548 | 4.34 |
Curtis Grant OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1653 | 13.10 |
Chuck Jeffrey OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1396 | 11.06 |
Paul Palleschi, incumbent, winner | 5766 | 45.68 |
Tejinder Singh | 1493 | 11.83 |
Incumbent John Hutton had ten candidates challenging his re-election, the most of any riding. Due to the berth of competition, he was only re-elected with 27% support. Among the challengers was Doug Whillans, son of Ken Whillans, a former Brampton mayor. As of election day, Hutton had held the seat for 21 years.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Derrick Coke OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1768 | 13.70 |
Jassi Dhillon | 185 | 1.43 |
Navdeep Gill WEBSITE UNARCHIVED | 1790 | 13.87 |
Ralph Irving Greene | 1466 | 11.36 |
Jim Howell | 535 | 4.15 |
John A. Hutton, incumbent, winner | 3552 | 27.53 |
Adrian Avinash Lalla | 45 | 0.35 |
Paul Mangat | 142 | 1.10 |
Mathew Njenga OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 454 | 3.52 |
Joyce Rodriguez OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1175 | 9.11 |
Doug Whillans ARCHIVED OFFICIAL WEBSITE[ permanent dead link] | 1792 | 13.89 |
Businessman and 2005 Brampton Citizen of the Year John Sanderson beat incumbent Susan DiMarco. One of four challengers, Sanderson had previous run and lost for the same ward in 2003. With a mere 292 votes dividing them, the race between Sanderson and DiMarco was the last to be declared in all of Peel.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Tibor Bankuti | 181 | 1.22 |
Susan DiMarco, incumbent OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 5431 | 36.60 |
Theo Goary | 463 | 3.12 |
John Sanderson, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2018-08-04 at the Wayback Machine | 5723 | 38.56 |
Sukhwant Thethi OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 3042 | 20.50 |
Incumbent Bob Callahan easily won this race. Once an MPP, Callahan won over his nearest competitor by 33.36%.
Babra's second-place finish was unexpected, as while he participated in a Brampton Guardian interview, he did not reply to The Toronto Star or The Brampton News/Wikinews. His email address was inactive throughout the duration of his campaign.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Balbir Babra | 3212 | 21.94 |
Manny Bianchi-Morfino | 264 | 1.80 |
Bob Callahan, incumbent, winner | 8094 | 55.30 |
Dolly Khokhar | 289 | 1.97 |
Maria Peart | 585 | 4.00 |
Tim Turcott | 251 | 1.71 |
Innocent Watat | 61 | 0.42 |
Sheila White OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1881 | 12.85 |
Long-time incumbent Gael Miles easily won the election for regional councillor (Wards 7 and 8), against political newcomer John Villella.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Gael Miles, incumbent OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2006-11-01 at the Wayback Machine | 11071 | 87.67 |
John Villella OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1557 | 12.33 |
Incumbent Sandra Hames won with little trouble, garnering also three out of every four votes.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Khalid Alvi as "K. Alvi", ran in 2003 election for city wards 7 & 8 | 1069 | 8.49 |
Tom Armstrong | 1269 | 10.07 |
Sandra Hames, incumbent OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 9317 | 73.96 |
Vaughn Parker | 212 | 1.68 |
John B. Spry, ran in 2003 election for wards 9 & 10. | 730 | 5.80 |
Incumbent John Sprovieri had six candidates challenging his re-election, which he won with 44.91% support. Among the challengers is Derek Begley, son of retired regional councillor Rhoda Begley. Johal is known in the ward as a star candidate. [26]
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Derek Begley OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 1364 | 8.25 |
Sherdaljit Dhillon | 2148 | 12.99 |
Mahen Gupta | 760 | 4.60 |
Satpaul Johal | 3707 | 22.42 |
Dalbir S. Kathuria | 995 | 6.02 |
Vahid Saadati-Khanshir | 133 | 0.80 |
John Sprovieri, incumbent, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE Archived 2006-10-22 at the Wayback Machine | 7425 | 44.91 |
Garnett Manning had five people contesting his seat, which he eventually lost to Vicky Dhillon. Manning had beat Dhillon by a slim amount in the 2003 election. At time of election, Dhillon was the Brampton—Springdale riding association president for the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario); it is unknown if he will retain this position. Among the other candidates was Daljit Gill, a one-term Peel District School Board trustee.
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Stella Ambler OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 4029 | 23.80 |
Mandeep Dhaliwal OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 2879 | 17.01 |
Vicky Dhillon, winner OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 4700 | 27.77 |
Daljit Gill | 620 | 3.66 |
Nalem Malik | 439 | 2.59 |
Garnett Manning, incumbent ARCHIVED OFFICIAL WEBSITE | 4259 | 25.16 |
The Peel District School Board runs a website about its trustees and their roles.
There is no incumbent in these wards, as one-term trustee Daljit Gill is running for city council.
Beryl Ford is the only person elected by acclamation to any political seat in Brampton; this is her eighth term as a trustee. [27]
There is no incumbent in these wards.
Debates in this ward received extremely small audiences. Eleven, then six people showed up to two separate evenings. [28]
There is no incumbent in these wards.
None of the incumbents are seeking re-election
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Mark David de Pelham | 53 | 46.90 |
Christine Guindy | 60 | 53.10 |
Candidate | Vote | % |
---|---|---|
Anne Burke-Gauthier | 183 | 55.29 |
Yvonne Musau Kabeya | 65 | 19.64 |
Rene Riopel | 83 | 25.08 |
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