2010 Calgary municipal election

Canadian municipal election in Alberta

2010 Calgary municipal election

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Mayor and 14 aldermen to Calgary City Council
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Candidate  | Naheed Nenshi | Ric McIver | Barb Higgins
Popular vote  | 140,263  | 112,386  | 91,359
Percentage  | 39.6%  | 31.7%  | 25.8%

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Results of the City Council election

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| Mayor before election

Dave Bronconnier

| Elected mayor

Naheed Nenshi

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The 2010 Calgary municipal election was held Monday, October 18, 2010 to elect a mayor and 14 aldermen to the city council, the seven trustees to the Calgary School District (each representing 2 of 14 wards), and four of the seven trustees to the Calgary Catholic School District (each representing 2 of 14 wards). Three incumbent separate school trustees had no challengers. A new mayor was to be elected, as the three term incumbent Dave Bronconnier did not seek re-election. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold triennial elections.

The voter turnout was 53%, a significant increase from previous elections.[1][2]

## Results

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Bold indicates elected, italics indicates incumbent, and asterisk indicates withdrew from race.

### Mayor

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Mayor[3] Candidate | Votes | %

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Naheed K. Nenshi | 140,263 | 39.6
Ric McIver | 112,386 | 31.7
Barb Higgins | 91,359 | 25.8
Joe Connelly | 2,484 | 0.7
Bob Hawkesworth* | 1,513 | 0.4
Jon Lord | 1,461 | 0.4
Wayne Stewart* | 1,360 | 0.4
Craig Burrows* | 994 | 0.3
Barry Erskine | 672 | 0.2
Bonnie Devine | 329 | 0.1
Amanda Liu | 336 | 0.1
Sandra Hunter | 284 | 0.1
Dan Knight | 262 | 0.1
Oscar Fech | 207 | 0.1
Gary F. Johnston | 180 | 0.1

### Aldermen

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Aldermen[3] Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 4

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Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | %
Dale Hodges | 12,330 | 41.4 | Gord Lowe | 9,232 | 42.7 | Jim Stevenson | 10,913 | 61.6 | Gael Grace MacLeod | 7,288 | 25.4
Chris Harper | 7,308 | 24.6 | "Joe" Biagio Magliocca | 8,210 | 37.9 | Helene Larocque | 3,905 | 22.0 | Sean Chu | 6,000 | 20.9
Ric Lockhart | 3,820 | 12.8 | Terry Richard Avramenko | 3,471 | 16.0 | Pervaiz Iqbal | 1,654 | 9.3 | Jane Morgan | 3,748 | 13.1
Judi Vandenbrink | 2,996 | 10.1 | Daniel M. Del Re | 727 | 3.4 | Gary Duane Tremblay | 1,258 | 7.1 | Jon Wong | 2,663 | 9.3
Bill Scott | 2,732 | 9.2  | Ward 5 | Ward 6  | Brad Northcott | 2,500 | 8.7
Norm Perrault | 573 | 1.9 | Ray Jones | 11,685 | 62.1 | Richard Pootmans | 8,107 | 30.6 | Tommy Low | 1,668 | 5.8
Ward 7  | Jay Bal | 2,861 | 15.7 | John Yannitsos | 3,931 | 14.9 | Leslie Bedard | 1,589 | 5.5
Druh Farrell | 11,910 | 42.9 | Beena Ashar | 2,323 | 12.3 | Brent Mielke | 3,377 | 12.8 | Dwight Larry Boehm | 1,020 | 3.6
Kevin Taylor | 10,658 | 38.4 | Robert J. Guizzo | 1,949 | 10.4 | Ken Rogers | 3,364 | 12.7 | Carol Poon | 860 | 3.0
Jim Pilling | 2,621 | 9.4  | Ward 8  | Randy Royer | 3,111 | 11.8 | Jeff Haussecker | 758 | 2.6
Elizabeth Ann Cook | 1,367 | 4.9 | John Mar | 11,630 | 52.7 | Tom Malyszko | 2,369 | 9.0 | Curtis Kruschel | 593 | 2.1
Michael Krisko | 1,204 | 4.3 | Zakary Pashak | 9,079 | 41.1 | Coral Turner | 977 | 3.7  | Ward 9
Ward 10  | David Lapp | 830 | 3.8 | Robert Wills | 885 | 3.3 | Gian-Carlo Carra | 7,850 | 31.0
Andre Chabot | 13,042 | 77.8 | Antoni Grochowski | 546 | 2.5 | Rad Dimic | 176 | 0.7 | Mike Pal | 7,355 | 29.0
Robert Kennish | 1,698 | 10.1  | Ward 11  | Henry Sims | 164 | 0.6 | Jeremy Pat Nixon | 4,814 | 19.0
Nargis Dossa | 1,214 | 7.2 | Brian Pincott | 10,834 | 35.1 | Ward 12  | Stephen Chapman | 2,944 | 11.6
Karl Schackwidt | 820 | 4.9 | James Maxim | 9,385 | 30.4 | Shane Keating | 9,270 | 42.4 | Stan (The Man) Waciak | 905 | 3.6
Ward 13  | Ernest Stephen McCutcheon | 3,309 | 11 | Al Browne | 6,886 | 31.5 | Petra Clemens | 718 | 2.8
Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart | 12,901 | 52.6 | Olga Knight | 3,736 | 13 | Roger Crowe | 4,433 | 20.3 | Henry Charles Hollinger | 543 | 2.1
Sandy Jenkins | 7,119 | 29.0 | Wayne E. Frisch | 2,466 | 8.0 | Benjamin G. Sim | 663 | 3.0 | Adam Vase | 221 | 0.9
Andrew Rodych | 2,635 | 10.7  | Ward 14  | Rory Rotzoll | 588 | 2.7
Trevor Hodge | 1,865 | 7.6 | Peter Demong | 8,483 | 29.2
| Richard Dur | 7,188 | 24.8
Shawn Chiping Kao | 5,647 | 19.5
Linda Fox-Mellway | 5,187 | 17.9
Ken Gerelus | 1,324 | 4.6
Billy (The Butcher) Tummonds | 1,201 | 4.1

### Public school trustees

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Calgary School District[3] Ward 1/2 | Ward 3/4 | Ward 5/10

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Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | %
Joy Bowen-Eyre | 5,732 | 19.2 | Lynn C. Ferguson | 24,461 | 83.5 | Pamela King | 11,075 | 47.8
Michael Gretton | 5,308 | 17.8 | Tanveer Taj | 4,845 | 16.5 | Ryan J. White | 3,307 | 14.3
Trina Hurdman | 5,065 | 16.9 |  | Rick Rowan | 3,162 | 13.7
Roberta McDonald | 4,364 | 14.6 | Shahzad Ashraf | 2,826 | 12.2
Jawad Durrani | 4,336 | 14.5 | Amarjot Mangat | 2,787 | 12.0
Josh Traptow | 3,549 | 11.9  | Ward 6/7 | Ward 8/9
Jaret Kneller | 1,546 | 5.2 | George S. Lane | 14,575 | 44.9 | Pat Cochrane | 15,226 | 52.5
Ward 11/13  | Carole Oliver | 14,392 | 44.3 | Laura Shutiak | 13,784 | 47.5
Sheila Taylor | 6,817 | 21.6 | Lenore Indarsingh | 3,499 | 10.8  | Ward 12/14
Catherine Heggerud | 5,538 | 17.5 |  | Carol Bazinet | 13,766 | 46.0
Julie Kearns | 4,711 | 14.9 | Malik Amery | 8,237 | 27.5
Sue Styles | 3,155 | 10.0 | Wendi Ann Moore | 7,912 | 26.4
Helen Mowat | 2,885 | 9.1
Victor Lough | 2,809 | 8.9
Andrea Guinn | 2,631 | 8.3
Larry R. Heather | 1,577 | 5.0
Sarah Baehl de Lescure | 1,463 | 4.6

### Separate school trustees

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Calgary Catholic School District[3] Ward 1/2/Cochrane | Ward 3/5/Airdrie | Ward 4/7

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Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | %
Serafino Scarpino | Acclaimed | Linda Wellman | 7,784 | 76.8 | Marge Belcourt | 6,224 | 58.6
Ward 6/8  | Rofina Groebmair | 2,352 | 23.2 | Anne Engel | 4,398 | 41.4
Lois Burke-Gaffney | 6,095 | 67.7 | Ward 9/10/Chestermere | Ward 11/12
Antoni Grochowski[4] | 2,909 | 32.3 | Rosemarie Ann Goerlitz | Acclaimed | Catherine Williams | 4,918 | 42.4
Ward 13/14  |  | Kim VanKosh | 3,557 | 30.7
Mary Louise Martin | Acclaimed | Michael Annuik | 3,111 | 26.9

## Candidate summaries

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### Mayor

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* Craig Burrows - Former Ward 6 alderman, withdrew from the race on October 14 to back Ric McIver, but still appeared on the ballot.[5]
* Joe Connelly - Alderman incumbent to Ward 6.
* Bonnie Devine - Previous Communist candidate for Calgary-East MLA.
* Barry Erskine - Former alderman, and host of Let's Talk Gardening on AM 770 CHQR.
* Oscar Fech - Ran for mayor in 2001 and 2004 elections.
* Bob Hawkesworth \- Alderman incumbent to Ward 4, withdrew from the race on October 13 to back Barb Higgins, but still appeared on the ballot.[6]
* Barb Higgins \- Former news anchor at CTV Calgary.
* Sandra Hunter -
* Gary F. Johnston - Retired rail worker, blind.
* Dan Knight -
* Amanda Liu -
* Jon Lord \- Former MLA and alderman.
* Ric McIver \- Alderman incumbent to Ward 12.
* Naheed K. Nenshi - Served on the leadership team of imagineCalgary.
* Wayne Stewart - Former president and CEO of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, withdrew from the race on October 14 to back Naheed Nenshi, but still appeared on the ballot.[7]

## See also

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* List of Calgary municipal elections

## References

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1. ^ Gary Rennie (October 24, 2010). "Voter turnouts surge across Essex County". The Windsor Star. Retrieved December 4, 2010.
2. ^ "Graphic: Voter turnout for municipal elections in Alberta". Calgary Herald. April 6, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2010.
3. ^ a b c d "Official Results". City of Calgary. October 21, 2010. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
4. ^ "Antoni Grochowski (Ward 6/8 separate)". Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
5. ^ Dave Dormer (October 15, 2010). "Former McIver rival endorses would-be mayor". Calgary Sun. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
6. ^ "Hawkesworth drops out, backs Higgins". CBC News. October 13, 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
7. ^ "Stewart to Support Nenshi". CTV News. October 14, 2010. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2010.

## External links

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* The City of Calgary: 2010 General Election
* http://election.gov.calgary.ab.ca/#ALDER11
* http://www.calgarycitynews.com/2010/10/official-results-for-2010-calgary.html

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