The 2018 municipal elections in Ontario were held on October 22, 2018. Voters in the province of

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elected

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school board A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution. The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional are ...

trustees and all other

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s in all of the province's municipalities.

Electoral period

As per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, nomination papers for candidates for municipal and school board elections could be filed from May 1, 2018, at which time the campaign period began. Nominations closed on July 27, 2018, at 2 PM local time. Certification of nomination papers was completed by 4 PM on July 30, 2018. Voting was on October 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM.

Ranked ballots

In 2016, the provincial government passed Bill 181, the Municipal Elections Modernization Act, which permitted municipalities to adopt

ranked ballots The term ranked voting (also known as preferential voting or ranked choice voting) refers to any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in a sequence of first or second (or third, etc.) on their respective ballots. Ran ...

for municipal elections.

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

was the only municipality to use ranked ballots in the 2018 election itself, with the decision in that city being made by

London City Council London City Council is the governing body of the city of London, Ontario, Canada. Composition London is divided into 14 wards, with residents in each ward electing one councillor. The mayor is elected citywide, who along with the councillors for ...

in 2017, while Kingston and

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held referendums concurrently with their 2018 elections on whether to adopt ranked ballots for the next municipal elections in 2022. Both of the referendums passed, though neither reached the 50 per cent turnout required to make the results legally binding. In 2020, the provincial government passed Bill 218, the Supporting Ontario's Recovery Act, which, among other things, eliminated the option of ranked balloting for municipalities. The City of London will now have to switch back to first-past-the-post for its 2022 municipal elections.

Online voting

The 2018 elections were also noted for a significant increase in the adoption of

online voting Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone ''electronic voting machines'' ( ...

. Across Ontario, over 150 municipalities conducted their elections primarily online, with physical polling stations either abandoned entirely or limited to only a few central polling stations for voters who could not or did not want to vote online. On election day, however, 51 of those municipalities, all of which had selected

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as their online voting contractor, were affected by a technical failure. According to Dominion the company's

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provider imposed a

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cap, without authorization from or consultation with Dominion, due to the massive increase in voting traffic in the early evening, thus making it impossible for many voters to get through to the server between 5:00 and 7:30 p.m. All of the affected municipalities extended voting for at least a few hours to compensate for the outage; several, including Pembroke, Waterloo, Prince Edward County and

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, opted to extend voting for a full 24 hours into the evening of October 23.

Counties

2018 Bruce County municipal elections Elections were held in Bruce County, Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province. Bruce County Council Bruce County Council consists of the mayors of the constituent municipalities. Arran-Elderslie ...

Regional municipalities

* 2018 Durham Region municipal elections *

2018 Halton Region municipal elections Elections were held in the Regional Municipality of Halton of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province. Halton Regional Council Halton Regional Chair The following are the results for the position ...

* 2018 Muskoka District municipal elections *

2018 Niagara Region municipal elections Elections were held in the Niagara Region of Ontario on October 22, 2018, in conjunction with municipal elections across the province. Niagara Regional Council Regional Chair For the first time, the chair of regional council was to be directly ...

* 2018 Oxford County municipal elections *

2018 Peel Region municipal elections Peel Region municipal elections, 2018, were part of the larger Ontario municipal elections, that took place on Monday, October 22. After ballots were cast, Patrick Brown was elected as the mayor of Brampton, Bonnie Crombie re-elected as the may ...

2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections The 2018 Waterloo Region municipal elections were held on October 22, 2018 in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to elect Waterloo Regional Council, the mayors and city councils of Cambridge, Kitchener, North Dumfries, Wate ...

* 2018 York Region municipal elections

Districts

* 2018 Algoma District municipal elections * 2018 Cochrane District municipal elections * 2018 Kenora District municipal elections * 2018 Manitoulin District municipal elections *

2018 Nipissing District municipal elections Elections were held in the organized municipalities in the Nipissing District of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province. Bonfield Mayor Source: Calvin Mayor Source: Chisholm Mayor East Ferr ...

* 2018 Parry Sound District municipal elections * 2018 Rainy River District municipal elections * 2018 Sudbury District municipal elections * 2018 Thunder Bay District municipal elections * 2018 Timiskaming District municipal elections

Single tier municipalities

Brant

Brantford

Chatham-Kent

Mayor

Chatham-Kent Municipal Council The Chatham-Kent Municipal Council is the governing body of the Chatham-Kent, Municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The municipality is divided into six wards. Each ward elects a different number of members to council. Curr ...

The results for

Chatham-Kent Chatham-Kent ( 2021 population: 104,316)

Mayor

Haldimand County Municipal Council Haldimand may refer to: People * Frederick Haldimand (1718–1791), Swiss-born army officer and governor of Quebec * Peter Frederick Haldimand (1741 or 1742–1765), Swiss-born British army officer and surveyor * William Haldimand (1784–1862), d ...

The results for

Haldimand County Haldimand County is a rural city-status single-tier municipality on the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and on the Grand River. Despite its name, it is no longer a county by definition, as all m ...

Council are as follows:

Hamilton

Kawartha Lakes

Mayor

Kawartha Lakes Municipal Council

For 2018, the Kawartha Lakes council will be reduced from 16 to 8 seats, plus the mayor. The results for

Kawartha Lakes The City of Kawartha Lakes (2021 population 79,247) is a unitary municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. It is a municipality legally structured as a single-tier city; however, Kawartha Lakes is the size of a typical Ontario county and is mostl ...

council are as follows:

Norfolk County

The following are the results for Norfolk County. Norfolk_County_ward_map

Mayor

Norfolk County Council Norfolk County Council is the top-tier local government authority for Norfolk, England. Its headquarters are based in the city of Norwich. Below it there are 7 second-tier local government district councils: Breckland District, Broadland Distr ...

There were some slight alterations to Norfolk County's ward map.

=By-election

= A by-election was held on June 3, 2021, in Ward 2 to fill the vacancy of Roger Geysens who retired.

Ottawa

Prince Edward County

Mayor

The following are the results for Prince Edward County.

Toronto

Separated municipalities

Barrie

Belleville

The following are the results for Belleville.

Mayor

Councillors

Brockville Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically Independent city, independent of the county. It i ...

The following are the results for Brockville.

Mayor

Councillors

Eight Councillors were elected.

Cornwall

Mayor

Cornwall City Council

The results for

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

city council are as follows:

Gananoque Gananoque ( ) is a town in the Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Leeds and Grenville area of Ontario, Canada. The town had a population of 5,383 year-round residents in the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Canadian Census, as well as summer resident ...

Mayor

Guelph

Mayor

Guelph City Council Guelph City Council is the governing body for the city of Guelph, Ontario. The council consists of the Mayor of Guelph and 12 ward councillors. Each ward elects 2 members to represent them. The council operates in the Guelph City Hall. Municipal ...

Two councillors to be elected in each ward. Results for

Guelph Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wel ...

city council are as follows.

Kingston

Referendum

Referendum on ranked ballots. The "yes" side won decidedly with 62%, but the turnout to make the referendum binding did not reach the 50% mark. However, Kingston City Council has promised to pursue the matter anyway.

Mayor

Kingston City Council Kingston City Council is the governing body for the City of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The council consists of the Mayor of Kingston and 12 city councillors elected by voters in geographic districts. Members 2022–2026 ''Elected in the 2022 ...

The results for Kingston city council are as follows:

London

Orillia Orillia is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is in Simcoe County between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Although it is geographically located within Simcoe County, the city is a single-tier municipality. It is part of the Huronia region of Cent ...

Mayor

Pelee

The results for

Pelee Island Pelee may refer to: * Île Pelée, an island off Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France *Pelee, Ontario, an island in Lake Erie, Canada *Point Pelee National Park, a park in Ontario, Canada *Mount Pelée, a volcano in Martinique *Peleus In Greek mytholo ...

were as follows:

Mayor

Peterborough

The following are the results for

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

Mayor

Councillors A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

Two councillors were elected from each of the 5 wards.

Pembroke

Mayor

Prescott

Mayor

Quinte West

Mayor

Quinte West City Council

Elections results for

Quinte West Quinte West is a city, geographically located in but administratively separated from Hastings County, in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the western end of the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario. The Lake Ontario terminus of the Trent–Sev ...

city council are as follows:

St. Marys

Stratford

Smiths Falls Smiths Falls is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, southwest of Ottawa. As of the 2021 census it has a population of 9,254. It is in the Census division for Lanark County, but is separated from the county. The Rideau Canal waterway passes thr ...

St. Thomas

Source:

Mayor

St. Thomas City Council The St. Thomas City Council is the governing body of the city of St. Thomas, Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically ...

Electoral period

Ranked ballots

Online voting

Counties

Regional municipalities

Districts

Single tier municipalities

Brant

Brantford

Chatham-Kent

Mayor

Chatham-Kent Municipal Council The Chatham-Kent Municipal Council is the governing body of the Chatham-Kent, Municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The municipality is divided into six wards. Each ward elects a different number of members to council. Curr ...

Mayor

Hamilton

Kawartha Lakes

Mayor

Kawartha Lakes Municipal Council

Norfolk County

Mayor

Norfolk County Council Norfolk County Council is the top-tier local government authority for Norfolk, England. Its headquarters are based in the city of Norwich. Below it there are 7 second-tier local government district councils: Breckland District, Broadland Distr ...

=By-election

Ottawa

Prince Edward County

Mayor

Toronto

Separated municipalities

Barrie

Belleville

Mayor

Councillors

Brockville Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically Independent city, independent of the county. It i ...

Mayor

Councillors

Cornwall

Mayor

Cornwall City Council

Gananoque Gananoque ( ) is a town in the Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Leeds and Grenville area of Ontario, Canada. The town had a population of 5,383 year-round residents in the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Canadian Census, as well as summer resident ...

Mayor

Guelph

Mayor

Guelph City Council Guelph City Council is the governing body for the city of Guelph, Ontario. The council consists of the Mayor of Guelph and 12 ward councillors. Each ward elects 2 members to represent them. The council operates in the Guelph City Hall. Municipal ...

Kingston

Referendum

Mayor

Kingston City Council Kingston City Council is the governing body for the City of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The council consists of the Mayor of Kingston and 12 city councillors elected by voters in geographic districts. Members 2022–2026 ''Elected in the 2022 ...

London

Orillia Orillia is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is in Simcoe County between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Although it is geographically located within Simcoe County, the city is a single-tier municipality. It is part of the Huronia region of Cent ...

Mayor

Pelee

Mayor

Peterborough

Mayor

Councillors A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

Pembroke

Mayor

Prescott

Mayor

Quinte West

Mayor

Quinte West City Council

St. Marys

Stratford

Smiths Falls Smiths Falls is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, southwest of Ottawa. As of the 2021 census it has a population of 9,254. It is in the Census division for Lanark County, but is separated from the county. The Rideau Canal waterway passes thr ...

St. Thomas

Mayor

St. Thomas City Council The St. Thomas City Council is the governing body of the city of St. Thomas, Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically ...

Windsor

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