2000 St. Catharines municipal election

2000 St. Catharines municipal election
	The Ward boundaries for the 2000 Election. The Mayor and regional councillors are elected across the city, Councillors in their respective wards.
Mayor before election; Tim Rigby;	Elected Mayor ; Tim Rigby;

The St. Catharines municipal election of 2000 was held to elect a mayor and councillors for the city of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Mayor[edit]

v t e 2000 St. Catharines municipal election: Mayor
Candidate	Votes	%
(x)Tim Rigby	acclaimed	-

2000 St. Catharines municipal election: Niagara Regional Councillor (six elected)
Candidate	Votes	%
T. Roy Adams	17,167	15.18
Michael R. Collins	13,890	12.28
Bruce Timms	13,750	12.16
Peter Partington	13,123	11.61
Mark Brickell	13,015	11.51
Brian McMullan	11,571	10.23
Christel Haeck	10,444	9.24
James Wilson	7,670	6.78
Ted Mouradian	6,544	5.79
John E. Kirby	5,900	5.22
Total valid votes	113,074	100.00

Electors could vote for six candidates.
Percentages are determined in relation to the total number of votes.

Carol Disher was elected to council in 1997, 2000 and 2003. She was president of the Niagara Bruce Trail Club in the early 1990s.^[1] She tried to prevent the merger of Hamilton and St. Catharines power utilities in 2004,^[2] and unsuccessfully urged council to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides in January 2006.^[3] She was also a prominent opponent of the Port Dalhousie tower complex purchase.^[4]

^ Karen O'Brien, "Taking a hike into the past", Hamilton Spectator, 23 March 1992, B4.
^ Dave Kewley, "St. Kitts hydro plugs into Hamilton", Hamilton Spectator, 9 November 2004, A8.
^ Marlene Bergsma, "Pesticide ban dies as council flip-flops", St. Catharines Standard, 17 January 2006 Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, accessed 5 November 2006.
^ M. Zito, "Tower opponents deserve voter support Nov. 13", St. Catharines Standard, 2 November 2006^{[permanent dead link]}, accessed 5 November 2006.