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Below are the official results of the vote for the Office of the Regional Chair of The Regional Municipality of Durham. The word 'Elected' is included beside the candidate who received the highest number of votes.

2018 Summary of Votes

# of Area Municipalities Reporting Final Official Results: 8 of 8

Candidate Name	# of Votes	% of Votes
Tom Dingwall	25,669	20.22
John Henry - ELECTED	69,834	55.00
John Mutton	16,800	13.23
Peter Neal	8,326	6.56
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	6,347	5.00
Total	126,976	100.00

Results last updated: 2018-10-25 1:06:53 PM

The following is a breakdown of the above summary of votes by local area municipality:

Town of Ajax

# of Wards Reporting: 3 of 3

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	7,191
John Henry	10,162
John Mutton	2,946
Peter Neal	1,391
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	2,174
Total	23,864

Township of Brock

# of Wards Reporting: 5 of 5

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	1,084
John Henry	2,099
John Mutton	428
Peter Neal	312
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	141
Total	4,064

Municipality of Clarington

# of Polls Reporting: 38 of 38

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	3,219
John Henry	9,851
John Mutton	3,027
Peter Neal	1,361
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	483
Total	17,941

City of Oshawa

# of Polls Reporting: 34 of 34

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	2,684
John Henry	18,782
John Mutton	2,445
Peter Neal	1,221
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	566
Total	25,698

City of Pickering

# of Wards Reporting: 3 of 3

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	4,526
John Henry	8,026
John Mutton	3,105
Peter Neal	1,506
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	1,425
Total	18,588

Township of Scugog

# of Wards Reporting: 5 of 5

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	1,249
John Henry	4,312
John Mutton	1,089
Peter Neal	510
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	165
Total	7,325

Township of Uxbridge

# of Wards Reporting: 5 of 5

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	1,779
John Henry	3,709
John Mutton	1,488
Peter Neal	515
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	234
Total	7,725

Town of Whitby

# of Tabulators Reporting: 44 of 44

Final Official Results

Candidate Name	# Votes
Tom Dingwall	3,937
John Henry	12,893
John Mutton	2,272
Peter Neal	1,510
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi	1,159
Total	21,771

Voter turnout information

The voter turnout information was provided by the area municipalities as part of their unofficial election results.

Name of Municipality	Number of Electors	Number Who Voted	Voter Turnout
Ajax	77,885	25,634	32.90%
Brock	10,042	4,687	46.70%
Clarington	70,173	18,678	26.62%
Oshawa	108,138	26,238	24.26%
Pickering	67,748	19,777	29.20%
Scugog	17,296	7,908	45.72%
Uxbridge	16,840	8,576	50.93%
Whitby	90,099	23,712	26.32%
Total	458,221	135,210	29.51%

Candidates for the Office of Regional Chair
Candidate	Date and Time Registered	Financial Statement
John Mutton 905-721-8818 john@johnmutton.ca	May 1, 2018 9:11 am	Notice of Extension of Campaign - John Mutton Financial Statement - John Mutton *in Default - did not file a supplementary financial statement in accordance with Section 88.25 of the Municipal Elections Act
John Henry 257 Sherwood Court Oshawa, Ontario 905-410-2419 john@votejohnhenry.ca	May 14, 2018 3:08 pm	Financial Statement - John Henry
Tom Dingwall Hampton, Ontario 905-926-3517 dinger4@rogers.com	June 1, 2018 10:13 am	Financial Statement - Tom Dingwall
Muhammad Ahsin Sahi 416-587-9334 sahifordurham@gmail.com	June 27, 2018 10:00 am	Financial Statement - Muhammad A. Sahi
Peter Neal pwneal@hotmail.com	July 23, 2018 12:15 pm	Financial Statement - Peter Neal