Fred Eisenberger (born September 3, 1952) is a Canadian politician and former real estate agent who was the 57th mayor of Hamilton from 2014 to 2022. Eisenberger previously served as chair of the

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prior to his first election. He served as the 55th mayor from 2006 to 2010, and was succeeded by

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, but was elected mayor again in 2014 and 2018 to four-year terms.

Early life and background

Born in

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, Eisenberger emigrated with his family to Canada when he was eight years old, entering through the iconic

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as many immigrants did during that era. He attended Sir Winston Churchill School in Hamilton. He graduated with honours from Mohawk College. He has also taken courses at the

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and

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. Eisenberger spent three terms as one of two aldermen in Ward 5 from 1991 to 2000. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in

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, placing third behind

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and Bob Morrow. He registered, but withdrew from the 2003 mayoral election, due to a ruled conflict of interest by the federal ethics counsellor stemming from the fact that Eisenberger was serving as chair of the Hamilton Port Authority. Faced with the choice of resignation from the board or candidacy in the election, he chose to withdraw from the race. In the 2004 federal election, Eisenberger ran for the

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, finishing third behind

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and

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Tony DePaulo.

Mayoral career

2006 mayoral election

During the campaign, Eisenberger stated that elected officials should be limited from serving more than two consecutive terms of office without a one-term break. One of the key planks of his platform was a proposal to hire an independent integrity officer to help restore public trust in city hall, following the controversy around Larry Di Ianni's campaign contributions in 2003.Andrew Dreschel
"A big and welcome win for Mayor Fred"
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'', June 13, 2008. While local media referred often to Eisenberger's 2006 win by 452 votes, few in the media managed to observe that ex-mayor Larry Di Ianni's vote had sharply dropped by 17,000 from 2003—a highly significant factor—from 70,539 to 53,658 votes. Eisenberger also refused donations from corporations and unions and was outspent four to one by his main opponent (Di Ianni). The local daily paper supported the incumbent but Eisenberger won the election. It came to light that the incumbent (Di Ianni) had accepted illegal donations in the 2003 campaign in which Eisenberger was not a candidate for mayor. Di Ianni was convicted of that offence. Eisenberger won the subsequent 2006 mayoral election as voters valued the campaign funding stance he'd taken, according to reports of the campaign.

Economic development

As part of his campaign, Eisenberger wanted to reform economic development in Hamilton, including a boost to the department's budget. He sought and won support for this initiative which involved hiring new staff and developing a marketing campaign to help promote Hamilton. Another major initiative was the creation of the Jobs Prosperity Collaborative, a group of community leaders to help steer Hamilton's economic development. He also proposed that the federal government's newly announced Southern Ontario Development Agency be located in Hamilton.

Environment and sustainable development

Eisenberger has proposed a downtown pedestrian plaza to increase pedestrian activity in the core of Hamilton. He also gained the endorsement of colleagues to implement an anti-idling by-law. A by-law which has yet to issue one single ticket. The by-law is not proactively enforced and relies on citizens calling the by-law office about a vehicle idling longer than 15 minutes. After several years of debate, Eisenberger worked with both the provincial and federal governments to gather financial support ($60 million in total) to assist with efforts to clean up Randle Reef in

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, a toxic hotspot from the city's industrial past. The provincial and federal government each contributed their portion of funding. Additionally, the City of Hamilton continues to work with the Region of Halton, the City of Burlington, the Hamilton Port Authority and the private sector (including US Steel and Arcelor Mittal) to create a funding formula to cover the remaining one-third of the cleanup costs. To date, the City has pledged $7 million to $10 million toward the cost of the cleanup.

Public transit

Eisenberger was a founding board member for the provincial transportation agency, the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GTTA) which later became Metrolinx. He is a leading proponent for the

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, a light rail transit (LRT) project. As part of

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, Eisenberger helped to initiate service improvements to the city's two rapid transit corridors, the north-south A-Line and the east-west B-Line, and was a key force in the establishment of the West Harbour GO Transit rail station on James Street North that was meant to boost inter-regional connections between Hamilton, the Greater Toronto Area and the Niagara Region The Province of Ontario established a new Metrolinx Board of Directors in 2009 at which time Eisenberger and all elected representatives, were removed from the board.

Ethics and integrity

Since winning the 2006 election, Eisenberger has pursued policies that he describes as "bringing

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and

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back to Hamilton council". In January 2008, Eisenberger publicly criticised councillors who he felt were trying to derail his 2006 campaign promise to bring in an integrity commissioner, but city council voted to implement an integrity commissioner in June 2008. In July 2008, a leaked tape of a private conversation between Eisenberger and ''

'' columnist Andrew Dreschel was released to ''Hamilton Community News'', although Eisenberger had previously admonished other council members for leaking info to the media. During his tenure, Eisenberger has allowed many of his councillors to walk away unscathed from clear violations of the city's

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. In September 2008, council cleared him of any wrongdoing, and an investigator found that he had been acting in the public interest and that his motives were "wholly proper" and in a manner consistent with the Mayor's duties under Section 226.1 of the ''Municipal Act, 2001'', though technically violating the code of conduct.

Stadium controversy

Eisenberger and a majority of councillors became engaged in a controversy over the location of a stadium for the Pan Am Games which were held in Southern Ontario. Together with his Council colleagues, Eisenberger had voted in favor of a stadium to be located at the West Harbour. However, the main tenant, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, disagreed with Council's preferred location choice. Eisenberger's refusal to negotiate is mainly the reason for his third-place loss in his upcoming election. The controversy, which lasted through the 2010 Municipal Election and beyond, proved a fruitless effort by both the Tiger-Cats and the City. A stadium location would not be worked out between the City and the Tiger-Cats organization until an 11th hour compromise to demolish the existing stadium and build the new stadium on the same site, a compromise negotiated by Bob Bratina.

Electoral record

, - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Expenditures , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger (Incumbent) , style="text-align:centre;" , 74,093 , style="text-align:centre;" , 54.03% , style="text-align:centre;" , +14.1% , style="text-align:centre;" , $114,534.00 , - , style="background-color:#1406a8;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Vito Sgro , style="text-align:centre;" , 52,190 , style="text-align:centre;" , 38.06% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $228,890.71 , - , style="background-color:#b1e85f;" , , style="text-align:left;" , George Rusich , style="text-align:centre;" , 2,220 , style="text-align:centre;" , 1.62% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $8,692.00 , - , style="background-color:#fdff91;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Jim Davis , style="text-align:centre;" , 2,071 , style="text-align:centre;" , 1.51% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $1,000.00 , - , style="background-color:#E30022;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nathalie Xian Yi Yan , style="text-align:centre;" , 1,286 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.94% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , -¹ , - , style="background-color:#f44262;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Michael Pattison , style="text-align:centre;" , 899 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.66% , style="text-align:centre;" , +0.04 , style="text-align:centre;" , $2,282.60 , - , style="background-color:#65AFF6;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Paul Fromm , style="text-align:centre;" , 706 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.51% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $7,189.16 , - , style="background-color:#efffaf;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Carlos Gomes , style="text-align:centre;" , 521 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.38% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $0.00 , - , style="background-color:#a3c3f7;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Todd May , style="text-align:centre;" , 500 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.36% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $0.00 , - , style="background-color:#f44289;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Henry Geissler , style="text-align:centre;" , 494 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.36% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $1,178.53 , - , style="background-color:#7ff9b0;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Phil Ryerson , style="text-align:centre;" , 479 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.35% , style="text-align:centre;" , +0.13% , style="text-align:centre;" , -¹ , - , style="background-color:#019b10;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Ute Schmid-Jones , style="text-align:centre;" , 463 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.34% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $3,016.28 , - , style="background-color:#4A4B4C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Edward Graydon , style="text-align:centre;" , 409 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.30% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , -¹ , - , style="background-color:#8DB600", , style="text-align:left;" , Mark Wozny , style="text-align:centre;" , 408 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.30% , style="text-align:centre;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:centre;" , $0.00 , - , style="background-color:#ffe69e;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Ricky Tavares , style="text-align:centre;" , 398 , style="text-align:centre;" , 0.29% , style="text-align:centre;" , -0.06% , style="text-align:centre;" , $0.00 , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 138,549 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 38.36% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , +4.3% , style="text-align:right;" , , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Registered voters , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 361,212 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 100% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , n/a , style="text-align:right;" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" , ¹ These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the
2022 Municipal election
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:''
City of Hamilton, "Nominated Candidates"
, - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Expenditures , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger , style="text-align:right;" , 49,020 , style="text-align:right;" , 39.93% , style="text-align:right;" , +12.5% , style="text-align:right;" , $106,647.00 , - , style="background-color:#0047AB;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, style="text-align:right;" , 38,706 , style="text-align:right;" , 31.53% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $152,236.05 , - , style="background-color:#008abe;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Brian McHattie , style="text-align:right;" , 25,020 , style="text-align:right;" , 20.38% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $129,341.11 , - , style="background-color:#69359C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Michael Baldasaro , style="text-align:right;" , 3,518 , style="text-align:right;" , 2.87% , style="text-align:right;" , +0.82% , style="text-align:right;" , $0 , - , style="background-color:#8ac4fa;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Crystal Lavigne , style="text-align:right;" , 1,910 , style="text-align:right;" , 1.56% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $0 , - , style="background-color:#dc8039;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Ejaz Butt , style="text-align:right;" , 1,579 , style="text-align:right;" , 1.29% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , n/a¹ , - , style="background-color:#4287f5;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Mike Clancy , style="text-align:right;" , 821 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.67% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $309.19 , - , style="background-color:#f44262;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Michael A. Pattison , style="text-align:right;" , 763 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.62% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $1,095.12 , - , style="background-color:#5bab4b;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nick Iamonico , style="text-align:right;" , 444 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.36% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , n/a¹ , - , style="background-color:#ffe69e;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Ricky Tavares , style="text-align:right;" , 428 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.35% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $0 , - , style="background-color:#ff38db;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Warrand Francis , style="text-align:right;" , 278 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.23% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , n/a¹ , - , style="background-color:#7ff9b0;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Phil Ryerson , style="text-align:right;" , 269 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.22% , style="text-align:right;" , - , style="text-align:right;" , $0 , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 122,756 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 33.53% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , -6.92% , 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;" , 366,124 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 100% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , ''n/a'' , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" , ¹ These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and were ineligible to run in the
2018 Municipal election
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:''
City of Hamilton, "Nominated Candidates"
, - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#3FFF00;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:right;" , 52,684 , style="text-align:right;" , 37.32% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Larry Di Ianni , style="text-align:right;" , 40,091 , style="text-align:right;" , 28.40% , style="text-align:right;" , -14.44% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger (incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 38,719 , style="text-align:right;" , 27.43% , style="text-align:right;" , -15.78% , - , style="background-color:#69359C;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, style="text-align:right;" , 2,892 , style="text-align:right;" , 2.05% , style="text-align:right;" , -1.56% , - , style="background-color:#9BDDFF", , style="text-align:left;" , Tone Marrone , style="text-align:right;" , 1,052 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.75% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#00563F;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Mahesh Butani , style="text-align:right;" , 950 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.67% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#00BFFF;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Glenn Hamilton , style="text-align:right;" , 949 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.67% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#E4D00A;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Pasquale (Pat) Filice , style="text-align:right;" , 768 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.54% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#4F7942;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Ken Leach , style="text-align:right;" , 577 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.41% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#C19A6B;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Andrew Haines , style="text-align:right;" , 557 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.39% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#8DB600", , style="text-align:left;" , Mark Wozny , style="text-align:right;" , 433 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.31% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF9966;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Steven Waxman , style="text-align:right;" , 429 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.30% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#B2BEB5;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Edward Graydon , style="text-align:right;" , 404 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.29% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#5D8AA8;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Gino Speziale , style="text-align:right;" , 356 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.25% , style="text-align:right;" , -0.77% , - , style="background-color:#663854;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Victor Veri , style="text-align:right;" , 313 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.22% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 141,174 , 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;" , 353,317 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 40.45% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , +3.2% , - , 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:''
Hamilton, Ontario, City Clerk's Office
, - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger , style="text-align:right;" , 54,110 , style="text-align:right;" , 43.21% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Larry Di Ianni (Incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 53,658 , style="text-align:right;" , 42.84% , style="text-align:right;" , −8.08% , - , style="background-color:#00008B;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Diane Elms , style="text-align:right;" , 9,459 , style="text-align:right;" , 7.55% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#69359C;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:right;" , 4,520 , style="text-align:right;" , 3.61% , style="text-align:right;" , +1.76% , - , style="background-color:#5D8AA8;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Gino Speziale , style="text-align:right;" , 1,274 , style="text-align:right;" , 1.02 , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#4F7942;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Steve Leach , style="text-align:right;" , 1,250 , style="text-align:right;" , 1.00 , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FCF75E;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Martin S. Zuliniak , style="text-align:right;" , 968 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.77 , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 126,986 , 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;" , 340,941 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 37.25% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , −0.72% , - , 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:''
Hamilton, Ontario, City Clerk's Office
, - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#00BFFF;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Robert Wade , style="text-align:right;" , 62,945 , style="text-align:right;" , 42.27% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF9966;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Bob Morrow (Incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 51,225 , style="text-align:right;" , 34.40% , style="text-align:right;" , -41.60% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger , style="text-align:right;" , 15,112 , style="text-align:right;" , 10.15% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , John C. Munro , style="text-align:right;" , 14,090 , style="text-align:right;" , 9.46% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#69359C;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:right;" , 1,637 , style="text-align:right;" , 1.1% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#0047AB;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Bill Cottrell Jr. , style="text-align:right;" , 1,358 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.91% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#66B032;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Julie Gordon , style="text-align:right;" , 1,041 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.69% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#C32148;" , , style="text-align:left;" , C. A. Smith , style="text-align:right;" , 394 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.26% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FFD12A;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Bob Fanjoy , style="text-align:right;" , 392 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.26% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#E4D00A;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Kris Heaton , style="text-align:right;" , 290 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.20% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#8DB600", , style="text-align:left;" , Richard H. Hennick , style="text-align:right;" , 218 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.14% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FE6F5E;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fern Rankin , style="text-align:right;" , 196 , style="text-align:right;" , 0.13% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 148,898 , 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: Van Harten, Peter. "A feisty Munro has crash landing; Former Liberal cabinet member finishes fourth,"
''The Hamilton Spectator'', November 14, 2000, Decision 2000, D01. , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , 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: , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Dominic Agostino (incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 7,804 , style="text-align:right;" , 70.43% , style="text-align:right;" , +8.03% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger (incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 4,803 , style="text-align:right;" , 43.35% , style="text-align:right;" , +17.5% , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Chad Collins , style="text-align:right;" , 3,661 , style="text-align:right;" , 33.04% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 11,080 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , Note 1 , 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;" , 28,265 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 39.2% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , -3.67% , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" , Note 1: Each ward elected two aldermen and percentages are specific to each candidate, not for the overall total.
Note 2: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note 3: 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: Wells, Jon. "Ward 5: A silence over the valley", ''The Hamilton Spectator'', November 7,
1997, Election Review, S11. , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , Candidate !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" , style="text-align:center;" , Votes , style="text-align:center;" , % , style="text-align:center;" , ±% , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Dominic Agostino (Incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 7,697 , style="text-align:right;" , 62.35% , style="text-align:right;" , +1.46% , - , style="background-color:#66023C;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Eisenberger , style="text-align:right;" , 3,191 , style="text-align:right;" , 25.85% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Reg Wheeler , style="text-align:right;" , 3,159 , style="text-align:right;" , 25.59% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#002E63;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fred Lombardo (Incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 2,984 , style="text-align:right;" , 24.17% , style="text-align:right;" , ''-8.56%'' , - , style="background-color:#6495ED;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Tommy Tarpos , style="text-align:right;" , 2,178 , style="text-align:right;" , 17.64% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#C19A6B;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fiore Manganiello , style="text-align:right;" , 347 , style="text-align:right;" , 2.81% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 12,344 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , Note 1 , 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 1: Each ward elected two aldermen and percentages are specific to each candidate, not for the overall total.
Note 2: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note 3: 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: Elliot, James. "Newcomer Eisenberger wins squeaker", ''Hamilton Spectator'', Wednesday,
November 13, 1991, Metro, B2.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eisenberger, Fred 1952 births Living people Dutch emigrants to Canada Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario Candidates in the 2004 Canadian federal election Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament