The 1991 Toronto municipal election was held on November 12, 1991 to elect councillors in

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, Ontario, Canada, and mayors, councillors and school trustees in

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and

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. Under the 1989 Municipal Act changes, the title of alderman was changed to councillor across Metro.

Leadership

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*Mayor of

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*Mayor of

- David Johnson (1992–93), Michael Prue (1993-94) *Mayor of

- Bruce Sinclair *Mayor of

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*Mayor of

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*Mayor of York -

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Metro

Metro council was mostly unchanged from that elected in the 1988 election. The only incumbent defeated was

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in Scarborough Malvern, who was ousted by Raymond Cho. New arrivals included school board trustee

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elected downtown. ; High Park :

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(incumbent) - 13,706 : David Miller - 8,079 :Yaqoob Khan - 1,544 ;Trinity Niagara :

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(incumbent) - 9,084 :Michael Baillargeon - 3,610 :Charlene Cottle - 1,364 ;Downtown :

- 10,024 :Storm MacGregor - 4,913 :Michael Lockey - 2,805 :Larry Lee - 1,836 :Zoltan Fekete - 1,327 ;Don River :Roger Hollander (incumbent) - 10,868 :Paul Raina - 9,220 ;East Toronto : Paul Christie (incumbent) - acclaimed ;Davenport :Dennis Fotinos - 7,452 :Anne Ladouceur - 3,695 :Peter Zahakos - 3,532 :Dale Ritch - 1,697 ;Midtown :Ila Bossons (incumbent) - 14,776 :Victor Knox - 6,996 ;

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(incumbent) - 21,953 :Paul Egli - 4,267 ;

:Peter Oyler (incumbent) - 9,810 :Steve Mastoras - 7,083 :Mike Wyatt - 4,372 ;Lakeshore Queensway :Blake Kinahan (incumbent) - 9,055 :Jeff Knoll - 6,624 ;Markland Centennial :Dick O'Brien (incumbent) - acclaimed ; Kingsway Humber :

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(incumbent) - 13,097 :Terry Howes - 5,825 ;

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Thistletown :

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(incumbent) - acclaimed ;North York Humber :

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(incumbent) - acclaimed ;Black Creek :

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(incumbent) - 10,801 :Frank Crudo - 3,298 :Angela Natale ;North York Spadina :

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(incumbent) - 11,129 :Tibor Martinek - 2,589 :Larry Wynne - 1,687 ;North York Centre South : Bev Salmon (incumbent) - acclaimed ;North York Centre :

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(incumbent) - 12,119 :Jeffrey Smith - 3,028 ; Don Parkway :Marie Labette (incumbent) - 10,897 :Louis Horvath - 3,544 ;Seneca Heights : Joan King (incumbent) - 11,624 :Peter Lowry - 3,245 ;Scarborough Bluffs : Brian Ashton (incumbent) - 11,398 :Frank Duckworth - 3,994 ;Scarborough Wexford :

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(incumbent) - 6,288 :Hugh Canning - 4,820 ;Scarborough Centre :Brian Harrison (incumbent) - acclaimed ;Scarborough Highland Creek : Ken Morrish (incumbent) - acclaimed ; Scarborough Agincourt :Scott Cavalier (incumbent) - 7,171 :Anne McBride - 4,236 ;Scarborough

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: Raymond Cho - 5,283 :Bob Sanders (incumbent) - 3,977 :Shan Rana - 1,321 ; York Eglinton :

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(incumbent) - 10,773 :John Rocca - 2,223 ;York Humber :

(incumbent) - acclaimed North York Humber Councillor

resigned on August 10, 1994 following a conviction for breach of trust. Paul Valenti was appointed to fill the vacancy on August 24.

Toronto

Mayor

In Toronto, the mayoral race was the first open contest in more than a decade as

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decided not to run for re-election after 11 years.

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, a long-time city councillor and leader of the council's left wing contested the Mayor's position as the first-ever official candidate of the Metro New Democratic Party (NDP). The centre-right was initially divided amongst three candidates, former city councillor

who had most recently been chair of the police commission, then-city councillor

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and former alderman, provincial cabinet minister and

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Susan Fish. Fearing that the 1991 election would be a repeat of 1978 where a split on the right allowed left-winger

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to win, the business and development community worked behind the scenes to consolidate its support behind Rowlands. Lacking funds, Disero and Fish were forced to drop out before the close of nominations resulting in a two-way race between Rowlands and Layton with Rowlands proving victorious. Fish's name remained on the ballot, as she withdrew after the deadline for nominations had passed. Results taken from the ''

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'' newspaper, 14 November 1991, E8. The final official results were not significantly different.

City council

As with Metro, city council was mostly stable with all incumbents who ran being reelected. The new council had six NDP affiliated members eight members on the right and two moderates who varied between the groups. New members included

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, who won Layton's vacated downtown seat, and became the first ever openly gay man to serve on council. * In Ward 1, incumbent Councillor William Boytchuk (who has served as councillor since 1969), had no problem keeping his seat, winning with a 13% margin over David Hutcheon. Hutcheon would later be elected to City Council in 1994 and serve as Budget Chief. *Councillor Korwin-Kuczynski, who has held the ward since 1982, defeated challenger Susan Shaw by nearly 20% in a head-to-head challenge. *Serving on Council since 1966, O'Donohue easily won re-election in his ward. * Martin Silva has held the ward since winning for the first time in 1988, and won re-election over Nick Figliano and Ian Christie with almost half the vote. * One term Councillor Liz Amer won re-election by a narrow margin over Benson Lau. * Kyle Rae won the seat vacated by Jack Layton in his attempt to run for mayor, and became the first openly gay City Councillor in Toronto. * Barbara Hall (who will later serve as mayor), soundly won her ward with 70% of the vote, in a one-on-one campaign against Edward Fortune. * Future NDP MPP Peter Tabuns won his ward by a razor-thin margin. Tabuns defeated John Roy by just over 200 votes, the narrowest in the election campaign. *After the resignation of incumbent councillor Tom Clifford, the seat was won by Steve Ellis in a three-way race over the area's

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Avril Usha Velupillai and Terry Brackett. * Tom Jakobek, who has served as the councillor for the area since 1980, won re-election in an almost 3 to 1 margin over challenger Shelly Jean O'Neill. * Incumbent Rob Maxwell won by a 700-vote margin over Walter Melnyk. *After dropping out in her run for mayor, Betty Disero ran for City Council, soundly defeating her challengers with 65% of the vote. * John Adams won the ward of Yorkville. Ying Hope also attempted to make a political comeback, after serving as a Toronto alderman in the 1960s and 70s. * Incumbent Howard Levine wins the upper-class ward with 43% of the vote, 11% over his next closest challenger John Gunning. * The only ward where all candidates were female, incumbent Kay Gardner defeated her challenger Nnacy Griffin with 3 times the vote. *Michael Walker wins the ward with twice the number of votes as his next closest challenger.

East York

Dave Johnson was re-elected mayor by a wide margin. All the incumbents were re-elected. Ward 2 saw the closest race. † - denotes incumbent status from previous council

Mayor

* † Dave Johnson 18,329 * Brenda Louella Kildey 3,977

Replacement mayor

On April 2, 1993, Johnson was elected to the provincial government in a by-election to replace Margery Ward who died in office. East York council decided to choose a new mayor amongst themselves rather than run a by-election that would have cost an estimated $500,000. Michael Prue won the contest after six rounds of balloting and he became the mayor for the rest of the term. Norm Crone was appointed to fill Prue's place on council.

Council

Two councillors were elected in each ward. ;Ward 1 *† Michael Prue 3,261 *†

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3,061 * John Couvell 1,347 * Michael Sokovnin 610 ;Ward 2 * †George Vasilopoulos 3,469 * David Anderson 3,269 * Paul Robinson 3,098 ;Ward 3 * Bob Dale 2,377 * John Papadakis 2,052 * John Antonopoulos 1,845 * Ed McConnell 1,357 * Jim Zotalis 487 ;Ward 4 * †Lorna Krawchuk 5,173 * †Jenner Jean-Marie 4,449 * Darrel Berry 3,050

Etobicoke

Mayor

* (x) Bruce Sinclair 38,124 (55%) * Norman Matusiak 31,327 (45%) Matusiak, a lawyer and former deputy crown attorney with no previous political experience, did unexpectedly well Sinclair would go on to be defeated by

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in the 1994 election.

Council

Ward 1 * (x) Irene Jones 2,664 * Peter Ramos 1,167 * Bon Gullins 1,037 Ward 2 * (x) Alex Faulkner 2,878 *Lynn Harrett 1,428 *

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1,142 Ward 3 * (x) Ross Bissell 3,325 * Aileen Anderson 1,835 * Mark Palazzese 1,300 Ward 4 * (x) Michael O'Rourke 5,669 * Stephen Boujikian 1,528 Ward 5 * (x) Brian Flynn 2,563 * Anne Methot 1,747 * Susan Sotnick 1,524 * Ron Barr 877 * Abu Alam 137 Ward 6 * (x)

(acclaimed) Ward 7 * (x) Gloria Luby 4,245 * John Woodroof 3,069 Ward 8 * (x) Mary Huffman 4,718 * Raymond Morand 2,284 Ward 9 * (x) Alex Marchelli 3,187 * Peter Kell 1,791 Ward 10 * (x) Brian Ineson 2,474 * David Robertson 2,229 * Frank Acri 935 * Brian Logie 151 Ward 11 *(x) Elizabeth Brown 1,333 *Karen Herrell 1,079 *Charlie Gordon 872 *Darshan Singh 204 Ward 12 * (x) John Hastings 2,351 *Ron Strong 571 *Anil Banerjee 436

North York

was re-elected mayor of the North York for the seventh consecutive time which broke a record set 710 years ago in the 13th century. Only one incumbent councillor, Bob Bradley was defeated in Ward 13 by newcomer David Shiner. Two other newcomers joined him, John Filion and Maria Rizzo who replaced retiring councillors. All other councillors were re-elected.

Mayor

* (x)

91,449 * David K. Long 17,321

Council

Ward 1 * Mario Sergio 6,699 * Fred Craft 1,492 Ward 2 *

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acclaimed Ward 3 *

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4,949 * Kathleen Walsh 1,174 * Lennox Farrell 1,072 Ward 4 *

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5,150 * Marco DeVuono 1,484 Ward 5 * Mario Rizzo 5,908 * Linda Memmo 3,499 * Craig Deasley 832 Ward 6 * Milton Berger acclaimed Ward 7 * Irving W. Chapley 4,867 * Shalom Schachter 2,649 * Michael Klein 518 * Sonnee Cohen 466 * Jessie Silver 354 * Mark Arshawsky 306 * Lothar Hille 124 Ward 8 * Joanne Flint acclaimed Ward 9 * Ron Summers 5,346 * Freddy Trasmundi 3,341 Ward 10 * Don Yuill 3,770 * Anne Lelovic 3,193 * Tony West 683 * Rod Gerrard 457 Ward 11 * John Filion 4,553 * Mary Matrundola 2,680 * Jack Arshawsky 289 Ward 12 * Barry Burton 4,212 * Frank DiTomasso 2,418 Ward 13 * David Shiner 5,017 * Bob Bradley 3,591 Ward 14 * Paul Sutherland 5,470 * Gerry Scanlan 1,355

North York School Board

Ward 1 Emery *Sheila Lambrinos (NDP) Ward 2 Amesbury Park/Black Creek *Bob Churchill Ward 3 Jane/Finch *Stephnie Payne (NDP) Ward 4 Lawrence Heights *Elsa Chandler Ward 5 Downsview *Errol Young Ward 6 Avenue Rd. Results taken from the ''

'', 13 November 1991 (all polls reporting). The final official results were not significantly different. Ward 7 Wilson Heights *Mae Waese Ward 8 Banbury-Windfields-St. Andrew's *Gerri Gershon Ward 9 Senlac *Shelley Stillman Ward 10 Don Mills-Flemingdon *Darlene Scott Ward 11 Willowdale *Diane Meaghan Ward 12 Victoria Village-Broadlands-Fenside *

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Liberal Ward 13 Hillcrest *Dan Hicks Ward 14 Oriole/Fairview/Pleasant View *

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Liberal

Scarborough

Mayor

* (x)

67,458 * John O'Malley 11,728 * Max French 3,784 * Abel Van Wyk 2,758

City Councillors

Ward 1 * Harvey Barron (acclaimed) Ward 2 * (x) Gerry Altobello 3,690 * Danny Lovatsis 1,734 Ward 3 * (x) Mike Tzekas 2,357 * John Wardrope 2,192 * George Page 1,051 * Tom Furr 921 * Rocco Zambri 222 Ward 4 * (x)

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3,762 * Kurt Christensen 2,104 * Costas Manios 1,367 * Ruth A. Lunel 357 Ward 5 * (x) Marilyn Mushinski 2,783 * Paul Crawford 1,115 * George Walsh 1,040 * Steve Tonner 377 Ward 6 * (x)Paul Mushinski 2,878 * Barry Christensen 1,603 * Tom Rowland 1,603 * Chris Kalpakis 512 * Chester Searles 426 * John Beatt 205 * Shawn Bredin 202 Ward 7 *Fred Johnson (acclaimed) Ward 8 *(x)

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3,952 * David Soknacki 1,532 *Steve Ryan 1,075 *Michael Fiddes 119 Ward 9 *(x) Ron Moeser 7,391 *Joseph Pileggi 2,055 Ward 10 *(x)Ron Watson 4,345 *Herb Cotter 1,219 Ward 11 *(x) Sherene Shaw 3,552 *Don Lombardi 1,457 *Christopher Fermanis 1,230 *Ayoub Ali 361 Ward 12 *(x) Doug Mahood 4,511 *Bill Kan S. Choung 760 *Norair Yeretsian 629 *Norman Chan 303 Ward 13 *(x)

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4,191 *Herbert P. Valle 1,469 Ward 14 *Edith Montgomery acclaimed

York

The race for York council was the most volatile of all the Toronto votes. During the previous term, a development scandal occurred where at least two councillors were convicted of taking bribes from a developer to sell parkland for a condominium development. In all, six of eight incumbents were defeated. Only

as mayor and councillors

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and

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were re-elected. Nunziata was instrumental in exposing the scandal.

Mayor

* †

18,702 * Phil White 12,776

Council

;Ward 1 * Roz Mendelsohn 1,627 * †Ben Nobleman 1,254 * Marguerite Kaszecki-Pyron 938 * Kevin Fulbrook 429 ;Ward 2 *

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929 * Branko Jovanovich 631 * Helen Poulopoulos 590 * †Tony Mandarano 571 * Joe Fazio 509 * Chaltanya Kalevar 497 * Claudio C. Lewis 54 ;Ward 3 * Rob Davis 859 * Angela Bianci 625 * Theo Evdoxiadis 475 * Mario Giansante 422 * Roland Saggiorato 402 * Gabriel Graziano 290 * Jose Perez 209 * Suzana Dozsa 178 * Leroy Crosse 152 * Tony Pizzolato 101 ;Ward 4 * Joan Roberts 1,149 * †Nicolo Fortunato 666 * Patrick Canavan 524 * Joe Piccininno 317 ;Ward 5 * Barry Rowland 941 * Lynda Palmer 917 * Mary Pedretti 710 * Enrico Iafolla 667 * †Jim Fera 466 ;Ward 6 * Michael McDonald 2,259 * †Bob McLean 1,417 * Bernard Thompson 1,375 ;Ward 7 * †

3,546 * Pat Rocca 834 * Harold Jinkinson 348 ;Ward 8 * †

2,506 * Ben Orszulak 1,227 * Fran Ferguson 593 † Incumbent

School Board

;Ward 1 * Karen Hen ;Ward 2 * Pete Karageorgos (acclamation) ;Ward 3 * John Mills ;Ward 4 * Elizabeth Hill ;Ward 5 * Joe Morriello ;Ward 6 * Bonnie Taylor ;Ward 7 * Steven Mould ;Ward 8 * Madeline McDowell

References

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