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The nominations were officially closed as of yesterday afternoon, and here are your local candidates for City Council in alphabetical order by ward, with incumbents in bold text:
Mayor: Vahide Bahramporian, Paul Cheng, Ali Hamadi, Ed Holder, Dan Lenart, Nina McCutcheon, David Millie, Jordan Minter, Mohamed Moussa, Carlos Murray, Sean O’Connell, Paul Paolatto, Tanya Park, Jonas White
Ward 1: Melanie O’Brien, Bud Polhill, Michael van Holst
Ward 2: Bill Armstrong, Alan Jackson, Shawn Lewis
Ward 3: Harry Prince, Mo Salih
Ward 4: Connor Garrett, Jesse Helmer, Xuemei Jiang, Tricia Lystar, Stephen Orser
Ward 5: Maureen Cassidy, Shiv Chokhani, Shane Clarke, Charles Knott, Stephanie Marentette Di Battista, Randy Warden
Ward 6: Mike Bloxam, Phil Squire
Ward 7: Joe Kolenko, Josh Morgan
Ward 8: Osam Ali, Bill Downie, Matthew Greer, Nour Hamid, Morena Hernandez, Moon Inthavong, Steve Lehman, Matt Reid
Ward 9: Ben Charlebois, Anna Hopkins, Matt Millar, Kyle Thompson, Veronica Marie Warner
Ward 10: Gary Manley, Kevin May, Virginia Ridley, Thomas Risley, Paul Van Meerbergen
Ward 11: Paul-Michael Anderson, Eric Deleeuw, Menno Meijer, Rachel Powell, Stephen Turner, Menno Meijer, Vicki Van Linden
Ward 12: Gordon Evans, Jesse Haidar, Faisal Mahmood, Rowa Mohamed, Elizabeth Peloza, Eric Weniger
Ward 13: Ben Benedict, John Fyfe-Millar, Jonathan Hughes, Arielle Kayabaga, David Lundquist, Rod Morley, Gil Warren, Kevin Wilbee
Ward 14: Steven Hillier, Annette Swalwell, Allan Tipping, Jared Zaifman
Thames Valley District school board: Joyce Bennett, Peter Cuddy, Brian Gibson, Maryna Greer, Adam Khimji, Linda Ludwar, Sherri Moore, Christine Morgan, Leroy Osbourne, Lori-Ann Pizzolato,Sheri Polhill, Corrine Rahman, Jake Skinner, David Smith, Eric Southern, Amanda Stratton
London District Catholic school board: Pedro Almeida, Jamie Burton, Sandra Cruz, Nando Favaro,John Jevnikar, Arthur Patrick Macleod, Stephen Paul, Gabe Pizzuti, Elyse Scheid, Linda Steel
Conseil scolaire catholique Providence: George Le Mac, Philippe Morin
Conseil scolaire Viamonde: Pascale Thibodeau, Denis Trudel
Voters will head to the polling stations on October 22nd. City hall is currently hiring an astounding 2,000 workers to staff voting days, and an extra 30 polling stations (170 in total) around the city. In anticipation that ranked-ballot voting could take extra time, the city will also rent 80 more tabulators to help read the ballots, and hopefully prevent backlogs at the polls..
