1994 Brantford municipal election
The 1994 Brantford municipal election was held on November 14, 1994, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario.
In the mayoral contest, Chris Friel defeated one-term incumbent Bob Taylor.
Results[edit]
| 1994 Brantford municipal election: Mayor of Brantford | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| Chris Friel | 10,695 | 41.97 | ||||||
| (x)Bob Taylor | 7,631 | 29.95 | ||||||
| Bob Lancaster | 3,981 | 15.62 | ||||||
| John Starkey | 1,754 | 6.88 | ||||||
| Dan McCreary | 1,094 | 4.29 | ||||||
| Chuck Giles | 325 | 1.28 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 25,480 | 100 | ||||||
- Bob Lancaster was raised in the small community of Little Lake, Ontario. He was first elected to the Brantford City Council in 1978, winning a seat in the city's second ward. He was re-elected without opposition in 1980 and was returned again in 1982. After standing down in 1985, he returned to council in 1991 and served another term. Lancaster was fifty-four years old in 1994, worked as a realtor, and was seen as a pro-business candidate.[1] After the 1994 election, he complained to the Ontario Press Council about election coverage in the Brantford Expositor. The case was dismissed.[2] He later chaired both the Brantford police services board and the Brant and Brantford Housing Authority as a citizen appointee.[3] His nephew Stephen Lancaster has also been a councillor.[4]
| 1994 Brantford municipal election: Councillor, Ward Two (two members elected) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| (x)John Sless | 3,591 | 36.68 | ||||||
| Vince Bucci | 3,184 | 32.52 | ||||||
| Ray McAllister | 1,975 | 20.17 | ||||||
| Don Francis | 1,040 | 10.62 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 9,790 | 100 | ||||||
| 1994 Brantford municipal election: Councillor, Ward Three (two members elected) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| (x)Mike Hancock | 4,195 | 39.61 | ||||||
| (x)Max Sherman | 3,133 | 29.58 | ||||||
| Lynn Stone | 2,688 | 25.38 | ||||||
| Paul Skoczylas | 574 | 5.42 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 10,590 | 100 | ||||||
| 1994 Brantford municipal election: Councillor, Ward Four (two members elected) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| Richard Carpenter | 2,874 | 35.21 | ||||||
| (x)Andy Woodburn | 1,974 | 24.19 | ||||||
| Chris Stanek | 1,701 | 20.84 | ||||||
| Chuck McPhail | 931 | 11.41 | ||||||
| John Bragg | 682 | 8.36 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 8,162 | 100 | ||||||
| 1994 Brantford municipal election: Councillor, Ward Five (two members elected) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| (x)Wally Lucente | 2,527 | 36.14 | ||||||
| Marguerite Ceschi-Smith | 2,096 | 29.97 | ||||||
| (x)Robert E. Smith | 2,006 | 28.69 | ||||||
| Russell Skelton | 364 | 5.21 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 6,993 | 100 | ||||||
- Robert E. Smith (died November 15, 2009) was a veterinarian. He graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College (later a part of the University of Guelph) in 1956 and operated a hospital practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, until 1975. He later moved to Brantford and opened a new practice in 1978. He became a founding member of the Society of Ontario Veterinarians and retired in 2002.[5] Smith served one year on the Brantford city council after defeating incumbent councillor Charles Bowen for the second position in the city's fifth ward in 1991.[6] He was narrowly defeated by Marguerite Ceschi-Smith in 1994. A decade later, he wrote public letters calling for increased protection for the elderly, for the dismissal of Brantford's highest-paid municipal staff, and against granting legal status for religious arbitration in Ontario.[7] He died in 2009, at age seventy-seven, after a farming accident.[8]
Source: Brantford Expositor, 15 November 1994, p. 7.
References[edit]
- ^ Brantford Expositor, 10 November 1994, pp. 2-4.
- ^ "Complaint against Expositor dismissed," Kitchener Record, 6 July 1995, F8.
- ^ Heather Ibbotson, "Mayor lashes out at judge for comments," Brantford Expositor, 17 February 1999, A1; "Second term for Lancaster," Brantford Expositor, 17 June 1999, A3; "Lancaster back as housing chair," Brantford Expositor, 13 June 2000, A6; Richard Beales, "Lancaster remains as police board chairman," Brantford Expositor, 17 January 2002, A3.
- ^ Vincent Ball, "Council table shake up: Four new faces elected by Brantford voters wanting change," Brantford Expositor, 11 November 2003, A3.
- ^ Susan Gamble, "Aliens sighted in fright fan's garage," Brantford Expositor, 7 June 2002, A3; "Former Brantford councillor, veterinarian killed in tractor mishap," Hamilton Spectator, 16 September 2009, A2.
- ^ Brantford Expositor, 13 November 1994.
- ^ Robert E. Smith, "Suggestions to protect the elderly" [letter], Brantford Expositor, 12 February 2004, A10; "Ex-councillor offers radical advice," Brantford Expositor, 8 March 2004, A8; Dr. Robert E. Smith, "Check out religious arbitrations" [letter], Brantford Expositor, 17 September 2005, A13.
- ^ "Former Brantford councillor, veterinarian killed in tractor mishap," Hamilton Spectator, 16 September 2009, A2; "Accident claims former city councillor" Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Brantford Expositor, 2009, accessed 28 January 2011.