Kevin Clarke | |
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| President of The People's Political Party | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Leader of The People's Political Party | |
| In office September 3, 2011 – 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Troy Young |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kevin Mark Clarke March 21, 1964 St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica[1] |
| Political party | The People's Political Party |
Kevin Mark Clarke (born March 21, 1964) is a Canadian former educator, activist and perennial candidate who is the founder and former leader of The People's Political Party. He is considered one of the most recognizable homeless persons in the city of Toronto,[2] campaigning on "the people's rights."
Clarke advocates for comprehensive reform in the criminal justice system, to create a system that prevents recidivism among first-time offenders. He has proposed a program that he claims would reduce the recidivism which allegedly violent prison environments create: 'The Inmate Monitored Education System' otherwise known as T.I.M.E., which would aim to help eliminate the claimed harmful influence of prison life on first-time offenders.
He also campaigns strongly on the issues of poverty and homelessness.
A former student teacher for Grade 5 at Chester Le Junior Public School in Scarborough in the 1980s, Clarke credits that period in his life as his most rewarding experience.
Biography
Clarke worked in the automobile business during the early 1990s. He sought election as Mayor of East York in the 1994 municipal election, describing himself as an "advertising consultant, political rebel and welfare recipient". He promised to resign after three months if elected, and to form a provincial party for ordinary people.[3]
Clarke first campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1995 general election, challenging New Democratic Party Premier Bob Rae in York South. He received 170 votes, finishing seventh in a field of nine candidates. During this election, Clarke vowed to oppose the "pimps" of government who "live off the avails of the people".[4]
Clarke campaigned for York South again in 1996 after Rae retired from the legislature, and finished last in a field of six candidates with 70 votes. The winner was Gerard Kennedy of the Ontario Liberal Party.
He sought election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1997 federal election, and finished sixth out of eight candidates in Broadview—Greenwood with 211 votes. The winner was Dennis Mills of the Liberal Party of Canada. During this election, Clarke described himself as a salesman and a businessman.
He became homeless in 1998 after his auto business failed. For the next seven years, he frequently sang and preached on the streets of Toronto while wearing long, flowing robes. He was also actively involved in public affairs and was a member of the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee.
Clarke ran for the Ontario legislature a third time in a by-election for Beaches—East York on September 20, 2001. He finished sixth out of eight candidates with 94 votes. The winner was Michael Prue of the New Democratic Party.
Clarke campaigned for Mayor of Toronto in the 2000, 2003 and 2006 municipal elections, and ran for Toronto City Council in by-elections held in 1998 and 2001. His primary issues were street and water safety, though he also emphasized anti-drug policies. He ran his 2001 campaign out of a homeless shelter which he used every night.[5] In the 1998 campaign, his age was listed as thirty-four.[6]
He took part in an unusual protest during the 2003 campaign, by tearing up pieces of a telephone book and scattering them to the wind during lunch hour at a busy Toronto intersection. "You care if there's paper on the street," he said to passers-by, "but you don't care if there's people on the street".[7] He also described himself as an "ex-con, ex-drug dealer and ex-teacher".[8]
Clarke finally found housing again in 2005,[9] and worked as an actor during this period.[10]
He was a candidate running for the 2010 Toronto mayoral election. Clarke has been known to employ eccentric tactics to reach the public during his campaign, including speeches while aboard the TTC and rollerblading whilst shouting campaign slogans on the road in Kingston Road and Lawrence Avenue East area.
In the 2011 Ontario election he ran as leader of the People's Political Party.[11]
Kevin Clarke emphatically stated to Peter Tabuns, during an all-candidates debate on education held on September 20, 2011, that he does not endorse the Ontario New Democratic Party.
Clarke ran for mayor in the 2018 election,[12] where he finished with 3,853 votes.
Clarke is known for attending debates and causing a commotion. He was not invited to a debate Toronto Centre By-election in 2013; however, he showed up and began yelling at the Liberal Party candidate Chrystia Freeland and New Democratic Candidate Linda McQuaig. He was subsequently arrested by the police and the debate was cancelled.[13] Additionally in 2019, he attended a debate on the environment and climate change ahead of the 2019 federal election in Scarborough-Guildwood, where only members of the major political parties were invited. He entered holding a large hand-painted "Vote Kevin Clarke" sign and immediately began yelling and criticizing the debate organizers as well as Liberal Party incumbent candidate John McKay. Upon discussion between the organizers and invited candidates, he was eventually allowed to participate in the debate on the condition he remained orderly.[14]
Clarke ran in the 2020 Toronto Centre federal by-election.
Clarke unsuccessfully ran for Toronto mayor in the 2022 mayoral election and the 2023 mayoral by-election.
He is a candidate in the 2023 Scarborough—Guildwood provincial by-election.
Electoral record
| Candidate | Number of votes | % of popular vote |
|---|---|---|
| John Tory (X) | 342,158 | 62.00 |
| Gil Penalosa | 98,525 | 17.85 |
| Chloe-Marie Brown | 34,821 | 6.31 |
| Blake Acton | 8,893 | 1.61 |
| Sarah Climenhaga | 6,729 | 1.22 |
| Tony Luk | 6,662 | 1.21 |
| Jack Yan | 5,585 | 1.01 |
| Stephen Punwasi | 5,236 | 0.95 |
| Kevin Clarke | 4,333 | 0.79 |
| Reginald Tull | 3,935 | 0.71 |
| Khadijah Jamal | 3,656 | 0.66 |
| Knia Singh | 3,030 | 0.55 |
| Arjun Gupta | 2,843 | 0.52 |
| Darren Atkinson | 2,580 | 0.47 |
| Sandeep Srivastava | 2,024 | 0.37 |
| Robert Hatton | 1,918 | 0.35 |
| Monowar Hossain | 1,840 | 0.33 |
| Phillip D'Cruze | 1,695 | 0.35 |
| Drew Buckingham | 1,679 | 0.30 |
| Soaad Hossain | 1,670 | 0.30 |
| D!ONNE Renée | 1,483 | 0.27 |
| Kyle Schwartz | 1,357 | 0.25 |
| Kris Langenfeld | 1,326 | 0.24 |
| Elvira Caputolan | 1,280 | 0.23 |
| Isabella Gamk | 1,151 | 0.21 |
| Cory Deville | 1,142 | 0.21 |
| Avraham Arrobas | 942 | 0.17 |
| Ferin Malek | 939 | 0.17 |
| John Letonja | 859 | 0.16 |
| Alexey Efimovskikh | 844 | 0.15 |
| Peter Handjis | 755 | 0.14 |
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Scarborough—Guildwood | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | John McKay | 22,944 | 61.1 | ±0.0 | ||||
| Conservative | Carmen Wilson | 7,998 | 21.3 | -1.1 | ||||
| New Democratic | Michelle Spencer | 5,091 | 13.6 | +2.4 | ||||
| People's | James Bountrogiannis | 1,096 | 2.9 | +1.4 | ||||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 155 | 0.4 | +0.1 | ||||
| Centrist | Aslam Khan | 129 | 0.3 | N/A | ||||
| Independent | Opa Day | 85 | 0.2 | N/A | ||||
| Canadian Nationalist | Gus Stefanis | 52 | 0.1 | -0.1 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 37,550 | 98.6 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 548 | 1.4 | ||||||
| Turnout | 38,098 | 58.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 65,711 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.6 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[15] | ||||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, October 26, 2020: Toronto Centre Resignation of Bill Morneau | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Marci Ien | 10,581 | 42.0 | -15.4 | $116,839 | |||
| Green | Annamie Paul | 8,250 | 32.7 | +25.6 | $100,008 | |||
| New Democratic | Brian Chang | 4,280 | 17.0 | -5.3 | $71,222 | |||
| Conservative | Benjamin Gauri Sharma | 1,435 | 5.7 | -6.4 | $0 | |||
| People's | Baljit Bawa | 269 | 1.1 | – | $22,752 | |||
| Libertarian | Keith Komar | 135 | 0.5 | – | ||||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 123 | 0.5 | – | ||||
| Free | Dwayne Cappelletti | 76 | 0.3 | – | $1,570 | |||
| No affiliation | Above Znoneofthe | 56 | 0.2 | – | $0 | |||
| Total valid votes | 25,205 | 100.0 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 118 | 0.5 | -0.2 | |||||
| Turnout | 25,323 | 30.9 | -35.2 | |||||
| Electors on lists | 81,861 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -20.5 | ||||||
| Elections Canada[16][17] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Scarborough—Guildwood | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | John McKay | 26,123 | 61.12 | +1.08 | $79,793.87 | |||
| Conservative | Quintus Thuraisingham | 9,553 | 22.35 | -4.15 | $57,402.46 | |||
| New Democratic | Michelle Spencer | 4,806 | 11.24 | -0.02 | none listed | |||
| Green | Tara McMahon | 1,220 | 2.85 | +1.41 | none listed | |||
| People's | Jigna Jani | 648 | 1.52 | - | none listed | |||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 112 | 0.26 | -0.16 | none listed | |||
| Canadian Nationalist | Gus Stefanis | 85 | 0.20 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | Stephen Abara | 70 | 0.16 | - | none listed | |||
| Independent | Kathleen Marie Holding | 70 | 0.16 | - | none listed | |||
| Canada's Fourth Front | Farhan Alvi | 55 | 0.13 | - | $791.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 42,742 | 98.66 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 580 | 1.34 | +0.87 | |||||
| Turnout | 43,322 | 62.89 | -1.69 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 68,886 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.61 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[18][19] | ||||||||
| Candidate | Number of votes | % of popular vote |
|---|---|---|
| John Tory (X) | 479,659 | 63.49 |
| Jennifer Keesmaat | 178,193 | 23.59 |
| Faith Goldy | 25,667 | 3.40 |
| Saron Gebresellassi | 15,222 | 2.01 |
| Steven Lam | 5,920 | 0.78 |
| Sarah Climenhaga | 4,765 | 0.63 |
| Kevin Clarke | 3,853 | 0.51 |
| Monowar Hossain | 3,602 | 0.48 |
| Logan Choy | 3,518 | 0.47 |
| Knia Singh | 3,244 | 0.43 |
| Dobrosav Basaric | 2,882 | 0.38 |
| Chris Brosky | 2,782 | 0.37 |
| Jim McMillan | 2,422 | 0.32 |
| Tofazzel Haque | 2,307 | 0.31 |
| Drew Buckingham | 1,971 | 0.26 |
| Mike Gallay | 1,940 | 0.26 |
| Daryl Christoff | 1,751 | 0.23 |
| Gautam Nath | 1,474 | 0.20 |
| Christopher Humphrey | 1,428 | 0.19 |
| Thomas O'Neill | 1,325 | 0.18 |
| D!ONNE Renée | 1,280 | 0.17 |
| Brian Buffey | 1,275 | 0.17 |
| Brian Graff | 1,139 | 0.15 |
| Michael Nicula | 1,048 | 0.14 |
| Andrzej Kardys | 1,035 | 0.14 |
| Joseph Pampena | 773 | 0.10 |
| Jakob Vardy | 757 | 0.10 |
| Kris Langenfeld | 695 | 0.09 |
| James Sears | 680 | 0.09 |
| Chai Kalevar | 615 | 0.08 |
| Jack Weenen | 607 | 0.08 |
| Ion Gelu Vintila | 565 | 0.07 |
| Joseph Osuji | 486 | 0.06 |
| Josh Rachlis | 337 | 0.04 |
| Jim Ruel | 276 | 0.04 |
| 2018 Ontario general election: Toronto Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Suze Morrison | 23,688 | 53.66 | +37.87 | ||||
| Liberal | David Morris | 11,986 | 27.15 | -31.07 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Meredith Cartwright | 6,234 | 14.12 | -4.43 | ||||
| Green | Adam Sommerfeld | 1,377 | 3.12 | -1.30 | ||||
| Libertarian | Judi Falardeau | 371 | 0.84 | -0.23 | ||||
| Special Needs | Dan King | 117 | 0.27 | -0.12 | ||||
| New People's Choice | Cameron James | 110 | 0.25 | |||||
| Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda | Theresa Snell | 102 | 0.23 | |||||
| The People | Kevin Clarke | 98 | 0.22 | +0.06 | ||||
| Canadian Economic | Wanda Marie Fountain | 65 | 0.15 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 44,148 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 404 | 0.92 | ||||||
| Turnout | 44,552 | 54.30 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 82,044 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from Liberal | Swing | +34.47 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[20] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Scarborough—Guildwood | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | John McKay | 25,167 | 60.04 | +24.25 | $77,572.69 | |||
| Conservative | Chuck Konkel | 11,108 | 26.50 | -8.19 | $80,342.41 | |||
| New Democratic | Laura Casselman | 4,720 | 11.26 | -15.44 | $14,956.71 | |||
| Green | Kathleen Holding | 606 | 1.45 | -0.78 | – | |||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 175 | 0.42 | – | – | |||
| Marijuana | Paul Coulbeck | 141 | 0.34 | -0.26 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,917 | 99.53 | $198,726.79 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 198 | 0.47 | ||||||
| Turnout | 42,115 | 64.58 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 65,217 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +16.22 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[21][22] | ||||||||
| Candidate | Number of votes | % of popular vote |
|---|---|---|
| John Tory | 394,775 | 40.28 |
| Doug Ford | 330,610 | 33.73 |
| Olivia Chow | 226,879 | 23.15 |
| Ari Goldkind | 3,912 | 0.40 |
| Selina Chan | 2,336 | 0.24 |
| Rocco Di Paola | 1,557 | 0.16 |
| Don Andrews | 1,012 | 0.10 |
| Morgan Baskin | 1,009 | 0.10 |
| Ramnarine Tiwari | 1,007 | 0.10 |
| George Dedopoulos | 941 | 0.10 |
| Said Aly | 800 | 0.08 |
| Robb Johannes | 756 | 0.08 |
| Jonathan Glaister | 747 | 0.08 |
| Monowar Hossain | 614 | 0.06 |
| Mike Gallay | 570 | 0.06 |
| Sam Surendran | 569 | 0.06 |
| Michael Tramov | 560 | 0.06 |
| Kevin Clarke | 547 | 0.06 |
| Matthew Wong | 491 | 0.05 |
| Dewitt Lee | 489 | 0.05 |
| Hïmy Syed | 465 | 0.05 |
| Mark Cidade | 453 | 0.05 |
| Troy Young | 411 | 0.04 |
| Dave McKay | 407 | 0.04 |
| Michael Gordon | 388 | 0.04 |
| Christopher Ball | 377 | 0.04 |
| Ashok Sajnani | 368 | 0.04 |
| Matthew Crack | 365 | 0.04 |
| Frank Burgess | 335 | 0.03 |
| D!ONNE Renée | 323 | 0.03 |
| Michael Tasevski | 319 | 0.03 |
| Mohammad Okhovat | 318 | 0.03 |
| Chinh Huynh | 312 | 0.03 |
| Veerayya Kembhavimath | 294 | 0.03 |
| Jeff Billard | 288 | 0.03 |
| Pat Roberge | 273 | 0.03 |
| Lee Romanov | 271 | 0.03 |
| Radu Popescu | 233 | 0.02 |
| Jon Karsemeyer | 232 | 0.02 |
| Steven Lam | 226 | 0.02 |
| Jonathan Bliguin | 207 | 0.02 |
| Christina Van Eyck | 203 | 0.02 |
| Josh Rachlis | 201 | 0.02 |
| Carlie Ritch | 194 | 0.02 |
| Tibor Steinberger | 188 | 0.02 |
| Klim Khomenko | 186 | 0.02 |
| Leo Gambin | 165 | 0.02 |
| Daniel Walker | 162 | 0.02 |
| Ram Narula | 156 | 0.02 |
| Jamie Shannon | 156 | 0.02 |
| Michael Nicula | 145 | 0.02 |
| Gary McBean | 135 | 0.01 |
| Charles Huang | 134 | 0.01 |
| Russell Saunders | 134 | 0.01 |
| Diana Maxted | 117 | 0.01 |
| Jim Ruel | 110 | 0.01 |
| Erwin Sniedzins | 104 | 0.01 |
| Chai Kalevar | 102 | 0.01 |
| Matt Mernagh | 102 | 0.01 |
| Wally Schwauss | 97 | 0.01 |
| Donovan Searchwell | 90 | 0.01 |
| Ratan Wadhwa | 73 | 0.01 |
| René Viau | 69 | 0.01 |
| Oweka-Arac Ongwen | 56 | 0.01 |
| Jack Weenen | 52 | 0.01 |
| Total valid votes | 980,177 | 100% |
| 2014 Ontario general election: Scarborough—Agincourt | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Soo Wong | 17,332 | 49.84 | +2.82 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Liang Chen | 12,041 | 34.63 | +2.64 | ||||
| New Democratic | Alex Wilson | 4,105 | 11.81 | -3.94 | ||||
| Green | Pauline Thompson | 907 | 2.61 | +0.34 | ||||
| The People | Kevin Clarke | 387 | 1.11 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 34,772 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.09 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[23] | ||||||||
| Ontario provincial by-election, February 13, 2014: Thornhill Resignation of Peter Shurman | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gila Martow | 13,438 | 47.89 | +1.18 | ||||
| Liberal | Sandra Yeung Racco | 11,671 | 41.60 | +0.68 | ||||
| New Democratic | Cindy Hackelberg | 1,905 | 6.79 | -2.17 | ||||
| Green | Teresa Pun | 404 | 1.44 | -0.24 | ||||
| Libertarian | Gene Balfour | 296 | 1.05 | -0.34 | ||||
| Freedom | Erin Goodwin | 153 | 0.55 | +0.22 | ||||
| People's Political Party | Kevin Clarke | 144 | 0.51 | |||||
| Pauper | John Turmel | 47 | 0.17 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 28,058 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 126 | 0.45 | ||||||
| Turnout | 28,184 | 27.36 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 103,021 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +0.25 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[24] | ||||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, November 25, 2013: Toronto Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Chrystia Freeland | 17,194 | 49.38 | +8.37 | $ 97,609.64 | |||
| New Democratic | Linda McQuaig | 12,640 | 36.30 | +6.09 | 99,230.30 | |||
| Conservative | Geoff Pollock | 3,004 | 8.63 | −14.01 | 75,557.39 | |||
| Green | John Deverell | 1,034 | 2.97 | −2.05 | 21,521.10 | |||
| Progressive Canadian | Dorian Baxter | 453 | 1.30 | – | ||||
| Libertarian | Judi Falardeau | 236 | 0.68 | +0.18 | – | |||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 84 | 0.24 | 560.00 | ||||
| Independent | John "The Engineer" Turmel | 56 | 0.16 | – | ||||
| Independent | Leslie Bory | 51 | 0.15 | 633.30 | ||||
| Online | Michael Nicula | 43 | 0.12 | 200.00 | ||||
| Independent | Bahman Yazdanfar | 26 | 0.07 | −0.12 | 1,134.60 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 34,821 | 99.49 | – | $ 101,793.06 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 177 | 0.51 | +0.12 | |||||
| Turnout | 34,998 | 37.72 | −25.21 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 92,780 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +1.14 | ||||||
| By-election due to the resignation of Bob Rae. | ||||||||
Source(s)
"November 25, 2013 By-elections Poll-by-poll results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 20, 2020. "November 25, 2013 By-election – Financial Reports". Retrieved May 9, 2014. | ||||||||
| Ontario provincial by-election, September 6, 2012: Kitchener—Waterloo Resignation of Elizabeth Witmer | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Catherine Fife | 18,599 | 39.87 | +23.20 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Tracey Weiler | 14,851 | 31.83 | -11.94 | ||||
| Liberal | Eric Davis | 11,194 | 23.99 | -12.05 | ||||
| Green | Stacey Danckert | 1,525 | 3.27 | +0.63 | ||||
| Libertarian | Allan Dettweiler | 156 | 0.33 | |||||
| Freedom | David Driver | 95 | 0.20 | -0.05 | ||||
| Communist | Elizabeth Rowley | 85 | 0.18 | |||||
| Independent | Garnet Bruce | 77 | 0.17 | |||||
| People's Political Party | Kevin Clarke | 48 | 0.10 | |||||
| Pauper | John Turmel | 23 | 0.05 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 46,653 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 128 | 0.27 | ||||||
| Turnout | 46,781 | 47.00 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 99,544 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +17.57 | ||||||
Source(s)
Elections Ontario (2012). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Kitchener—Waterloo by-election" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2014. | ||||||||
| 2011 Ontario general election: Toronto—Danforth | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Peter Tabuns | 20,062 | 54.01 | +8.16 | ||||
| Liberal | Marisa Sterling | 11,369 | 30.60 | +1.40 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rita Jethi | 3,488 | 9.39 | -1.89 | ||||
| Green | Tim Whalley | 1,354 | 3.64 | -7.51 | ||||
| Libertarian | John Recker | 440 | 1.18 | +0.01 | ||||
| People's Political Party | Kevin Clarke | 143 | 0.38 | |||||
| Independent | Neil Mercer | 110 | 0.30 | |||||
| Freedom | Stéphane Vera | 107 | 0.29 | |||||
| Independent | John Richardson | 75 | 0.20 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 37,148 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected | 157 | 0.42 | ||||||
| Unmarked | 45 | 0.12 | ||||||
| Declined | 24 | 0.06 | ||||||
| Turnout | 37,374 | 49.30 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 75,815 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +3.38 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[25] | ||||||||
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Rob Ford | 383,501 | 47.114% |
| George Smitherman | 289,832 | 35.607% |
| Joe Pantalone | 95,482 | 11.730% |
| Rocco Rossi | 5,012 | 0.616% |
| George Babula | 3,273 | 0.402% |
| Rocco Achampong | 2,805 | 0.345% |
| Abdullah-Baquie Ghazi | 2,761 | 0.344% |
| Michael Alexander | 2,470 | 0.304% |
| Vijay Sarma | 2,264 | 0.277% |
| Sarah Thomson | 1,883 | 0.232% |
| Jaime Castillo | 1,874 | 0.231% |
| Dewitt Lee | 1,699 | 0.209% |
| Douglas Campbell | 1,428 | 0.176% |
| Kevin Clarke | 1,411 | 0.173% |
| Joseph Pampena | 1,319 | 0.162% |
| David Epstein | 1,202 | 0.148% |
| Monowar Hossain | 1,194 | 0.147% |
| Michael Flie | 1,190 | 0.146% |
| Don Andrews | 1,032 | 0.127% |
| Weizhen Tang | 890 | 0.11% |
| Daniel Walker | 804 | 0.098% |
| Keith Cole | 801 | 0.098% |
| Michael Brausewetter | 796 | 0.098% |
| Barry Goodhead | 740 | 0.091% |
| Charlene Cottle | 735 | 0.09% |
| Tibor Steinberger | 733 | 0.09% |
| Christopher Ball | 696 | 0.085% |
| James Di Fiore | 655 | 0.08% |
| Diane Devenyi | 629 | 0.078% |
| John Letonja | 592 | 0.073% |
| Himy Syed | 582 | 0.071% |
| Carmen Macklin | 575 | 0.07% |
| Howard Gomberg | 477 | 0.058% |
| David Vallance | 444 | 0.055% |
| Mark State | 438 | 0.054% |
| Phil Taylor | 429 | 0.053% |
| Colin Magee | 401 | 0.049% |
| Selwyn Firth | 394 | 0.049% |
| Ratan Wadhwa | 290 | 0.036% |
| Gerald Derome | 251 | 0.031% |
| Total valid votes | 813,984 | 100% |
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| David Miller | 332,969 | 56.97 |
| Jane Pitfield | 188,932 | 32.32 |
| Stephen LeDrew | 8,078 | 1.38 |
| Michael Alexander | 5,247 | 0.90 |
| Jaime Castillo | 5,215 | 0.89 |
| Douglas Campbell | 4,183 | 0.72 |
| Hazel Jackson | 3,333 | 0.57 |
| Lee Romanov | 3,108 | 0.53 |
| Shaun Bruce | 2,820 | 0.48 |
| Monowar Hossain | 2,726 | 0.47 |
| Joseph Young | 2,264 | 0.39 |
| Kevin Clarke | 2,081 | 0.36 |
| Joel Rubinovich | 1,642 | 0.28 |
| Scott Yee | 1,538 | 0.26 |
| Rodney Muir | 1,458 | 0.25 |
| Nicholas Brooks | 1,397 | 0.24 |
| John Porter | 1,348 | 0.23 |
| Diana-De Maxted | 1,311 | 0.22 |
| David Dicks | 1,283 | 0.22 |
| Duri Naimji | 1,240 | 0.21 |
| Bob Smith | 1,105 | 0.19 |
| Mark Korolnek | 1,079 | 0.18 |
| Glenn Coles | 1,019 | 0.17 |
| Peter Styrsky | 945 | 0.16 |
| Mitch L. Gold | 880 | 0.15 |
| Ryan Goldhar | 787 | 0.13 |
| Mehmet Ali Yagiz | 753 | 0.13 |
| Ratan Wadhwa | 696 | 0.12 |
| Adam Sit | 663 | 0.11 |
| Paul Sheldon | 624 | 0.11 |
| Dave DuMoulin | 601 | 0.10 |
| Gerald Derome | 578 | 0.10 |
| Thomas Shipley | 574 | 0.10 |
| Soumen Deb | 517 | 0.09 |
| David Schiebel | 498 | 0.09 |
| David Vallance | 486 | 0.08 |
| John Weingust | 312 | 0.05 |
| Mark State | 194 | 0.03 |
| Total valid votes | 584,484 | 100.00 |
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| David Miller | 299,385 | 43.26 |
| John Tory | 263,189 | 38.03 |
| Barbara Hall | 63,751 | 9.21 |
| John Nunziata | 36,021 | 5.20 |
| Tom Jakobek | 5,277 | 0.76 |
| Douglas Campbell | 2,197 | 0.32 |
| Ahmad Shehab | 2,084 | 0.30 |
| Jaime Castillo | 1,616 | 0.23 |
| Luis Silva | 1,305 | 0.19 |
| Don Andrews | 1,220 | 0.18 |
| Timothy McAuliffe | 821 | 0.12 |
| Kevin Clarke | 804 | 0.12 |
| John Hartnett | 803 | 0.12 |
| Gary Benner | 802 | 0.12 |
| Albert Howell | 717 | 0.10 |
| John Jahshan | 703 | 0.10 |
| Michael Brausewetter | 672 | 0.10 |
| David Lichacz | 659 | 0.10 |
| Ram Narula | 645 | 0.09 |
| Elias Makhoul | 644 | 0.09 |
| Daniel Poremski | 627 | 0.09 |
| Ronald Graham | 619 | 0.09 |
| Fen Peters | 598 | 0.09 |
| Duri Naimji | 569 | 0.08 |
| Scott Yee | 551 | 0.08 |
| Monowar Hossain | 537 | 0.08 |
| Axcel Cocon | 498 | 0.07 |
| Ben Kerr | 433 | 0.06 |
| Aleksandar Glisic | 420 | 0.06 |
| Mitch L. Gold | 412 | 0.06 |
| Hashmat Safi | 383 | 0.06 |
| Simon Shaw | 376 | 0.05 |
| Patricia O'Beirne | 358 | 0.05 |
| Abel van Wyk | 332 | 0.05 |
| Benjamin Mbaegbu | 288 | 0.04 |
| Gerald Derome | 278 | 0.04 |
| Paul Lewin | 271 | 0.04 |
| Rabindra Prashad | 271 | 0.04 |
| Hardy Dhir | 199 | 0.03 |
| Kendal Csak | 193 | 0.03 |
| Mehmet Yagiz | 193 | 0.03 |
| Richard Weston | 133 | 0.02 |
| Ratan Wadhwa | 121 | 0.02 |
| Barry Pletch | 110 | 0.02 |
| Total valid votes | 692,085 | 100% |
| Ontario provincial by-election, September 20, 2001: Beaches—East York | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Michael Prue | 14,024 | 49.83 | +4.26 | ||||
| Liberal | Robert Hunter | 10,289 | 36.56 | +14.98 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Mac Penney | 2,821 | 10.02 | -19.53 | ||||
| Green | Peter Elgie | 694 | 2.47 | +1.47 | ||||
| Family Coalition | Ray Scott | 206 | 0.73 | +0.12 | ||||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 94 | 0.35 | – | ||||
| Independent | Vince Corriere | 59 | 0.21 | – | ||||
| Independent | Don King | 51 | 0.18 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,144 | 100.0 | – | |||||
| Elections Ontario:[26] | ||||||||
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Mel Lastman | 483,277 | 79.96% |
| Tooker Gomberg | 51,111 | 8.46% |
| Enza Anderson | 13,595 | 2.25% |
| Douglas Campbell | 8,591 | 1.42% |
| Steven Lam | 6,853 | 1.13% |
| Hazel Jackson | 5,310 | 0.87% |
| Kevin Clarke | 4,147 | 0.68% |
| Daniel Carras | 3,534 | 0.58% |
| Ben Kerr | 3,115 | 0.52% |
| Marcos Solorzano | 2,419 | 0.40% |
| Tim Duncan | 2,253 | 0.37% |
| Diana-De Maxted | 2,128 | 0.36% |
| Brian Fisher | 1,817 | 0.30% |
| David Predovich | 1,687 | 0.28% |
| Duri Naimji | 1,640 | 0.27% |
| Victor Fraser | 1,638 | 0.27% |
| Frenchie McFarlane | 1,635 | 0.27% |
| George Dowar | 1,430 | 0.24% |
| John Steele | 1,412 | 0.23% |
| Dave Du Moulin | 1,204 | 0.19% |
| Josef Klinghoffer | 1,131 | 0.18% |
| King Siu | 1,104 | 0.18% |
| Kevin Richardson | 1,065 | 0.17% |
| Abel Van Wyk | 1,005 | 0.16% |
| Kevin Knopman | 670 | 0.11% |
| Thomas Shipley | 623 | 0.10% |
| Total valid votes | 604,394 | 100% |
| 1997 Canadian federal election: Broadview—Greenwood | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Dennis Mills | 21,108 | 49.76 | -11.31 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jack Layton | 13,903 | 32.77 | +18.82 | ||||
| Reform | Brian Higgins | 3,247 | 7.65 | -3.64 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dianne Garrels | 3,238 | 7.63 | -1.71 | ||||
| Green | Karen McCarthy | 426 | 1.00 | – | ||||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 211 | 0.50 | – | ||||
| Natural Law | Bob Hyman | 205 | 0.48 | -0.53 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Gurdev Singh | 85 | 0.20 | -0.04 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 42,423 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Ontario provincial by-election, May 23, 1996: York South | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Gerard Kennedy | 7,774 | 39.22 | |||||
| New Democratic | David Miller | 6,656 | 33.58 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rob Davis | 5,093 | 25.69 | |||||
| Independent | David Milne | 151 | 0.76 | |||||
| Libertarian | George Dance | 77 | 0.39 | |||||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 70 | 0.35 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 19,821 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 264 | |||||||
| Turnout | 20,085 | 51.38 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 39,092 | |||||||
| 1995 Ontario general election: York South | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| New Democratic | Bob Rae | 10,442 | 41.24 | $39,100.07 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Larry Edwards | 7,726 | 30.51 | $28,482.21 | ||||
| Liberal | Hagood Hardy | 6,025 | 23.79 | $42,578.22 | ||||
| Family Coalition | Don Pennell | 305 | 1.20 | $4,210.68 | ||||
| Green | David James Cooper | 219 | 0.86 | $1,046.57 | ||||
| Natural Law | Bob Hyman | 176 | 0.70 | $0.00 | ||||
| Independent | Kevin Clarke | 170 | 0.67 | $1,164.66 | ||||
| Libertarian | Roma Kelembet | 153 | 0.60 | $819.58 | ||||
| Communist | Darrell Rankin | 105 | 0.41 | $59.00 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 25,321 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 388 | |||||||
| Turnout | 25,709 | 69.13 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 37,192 | |||||||
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Prue | 15,620 | 63.10 |
| Bob Willis | 6,295 | 25.43 |
| Anne Sinclair | 1,403 | 5.67 |
| Kevin Clarke | 788 | 3.18 |
| June French | 648 | 2.62 |
| Total valid votes | 24,754 | 100% |
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