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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
Green checkmarkJohn 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

CandidateDate and Time RegisteredFinancial 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

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