Hamilton municipal election, 1988
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The 1988 Hamilton municipal election was held on November 14, 1988 to elect municipal officials in Hamilton, Ontario. The most high-profile contest was for the mayoral office. Candidates also campaigned for city council and for school trustee positions.
[edit] Results
Note: This is not a complete list.
| Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes |
|---|---|---|
| (x)Geraldine Copps | 8,174 | 44.07 |
| (x)David Christopherson | 8,055 | 43.43 |
| Bob Fanjoy | 2,319 | 12.50 |
| Total valid votes | 18,548 | 100.00 |
Electors were permitted to vote for two candidates. Results taken from the Hamilton Spectator, 5 November 1991.
Fanjoy is a local businessman, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (Hamilton Spectator, 11 November 1997). He campaigned for Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Chair in 1997, at age fifty-eight, supporting the Red Hill Creek Expressway and two-tiered regional government (Spectator, 7 November 1997). He also ran for Mayor of Hamilton in 2000 as a fiscal conservative, opposing any increases in the municipal water rate, and calling for the city's anti-smoking by-laws to be revisited (Spectator, 8 November 2000). He lost each time.
Fanjoy has been the owner of All Weather Plumbing (Hamilton Spectator, 20 January 1994), and the Da-Nite nightclub. His tavern licence was temporarily suspended in 2005 for violations of the anti-smoking by-law (Spectator, 13 July 2005).
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