Candidates set for Oakville’s 2022 municipal election
Published August 22, 2022 at 12:34 pm
Oakville has its final candidates for this fall’s municipal election.
With the deadline for entrants passing on Friday (Aug. 19), only four councillors are running unopposed.
Unopposed council candidates include Ward 2 Town Councillor Ray Chisholm, Ward 2 Town and Regional Councillor Cathy Duddeck, Ward 3 Town and Regional Councillor Janet Haslett-Theall, and Ward 6 Town and Regional Councillor Tom Adams.
The four councillors will be officially elected later Monday (Aug. 22) at 4 p.m.
The battle for the mayor’s chair will be a three-way race this year. Current Mayor Rob Burton is seeking his fifth term at the helm of Oakville councill and will face a familiar opponent in Julia Hanna.
Jack Kukolic has also thrown his hat into the ring to make it a three-way race.
Burton defeated Hanna in the 2018 election, finishing with 22,918 votes to edge out Hanna by 3,487 votes. John McLaughlin was a distant third with 3,816 votes.
The municipal election will be held Monday, Oct. 24.
Here’s a list of those officially running for council in this year’s municipal election:
MAYOR
Incumbent – Rob Burton
Julia Hannah
Jack Kukolic
WARD 1
Town Councillor
Incumbent – Beth Robertson
John Florio
Jonathan McNeice
Oliver Vadas
Town and Regional Councillor
Incumbent – Sean O’Meara
JD Meany
WARD 2
Town Councillor
Acclaimed – Ray Chisholm
Town and Regional Councillor
Acclaimed – Cathy Duddeck
WARD 3
Town Councillor
Incumbent – Dave Gittings
Dyanne Dumas
Town and Regional Councillor
Acclaimed – Janet Haslett-Theall
WARD 4
Town Councillor
Incumbent – Peter Longo
Gordon Brennan
Town and Regional Councillor
Incumbent – Allan Elgar
Gilbert Jubinville
WARD 5
Town Councillor
Incumbent – Marc Grant
Angela Parsons
Michael Reid
Pierre Sauvageot
Town and Regional Councillor
Incumbent – Jeff Knoll
Alicia Bedford
WARD 6
Town Councillor
Incumbent – Natalia Lishchyna
Lama Aggad
Town and Regional Councillor
Acclaimed – Tom Adams
WARD 7
Town Councillor
Nabil Bin Arif
Kashif Chaudry
Faryal Ghazanfar
Amir Henry
Shahab Khan
Gregory Park
Ajay Rosha
Melody Wong-Gonsalves
Scott Xie
Town and Regional Councillor
Incumbent – Pavan Parmar
Nav Nanda
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