Winnipeg municipal election, 2002

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The 2002 Winnipeg municipal election was held on October 23, 2002 to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees in the city of Winnipeg.

Glen Murray, the city's centre-left mayor, was re-elected to a second term over challenger Al Golden.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Mayor 1.2 Councillors 1.3 School trustees 2 Subsequent by-elections 2.1 City council 3 Footnotes

[edit] Results

[edit] Mayor

2002 Winnipeg municipal election, Mayor of Winnipegedit

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
(x)Glen Murray	103,457	50.63
Allan Golden	76,749	37.56
David Lettner	14,199	6.95
Chris Henderson	7,270	3.56
Nick Ternette	2,665	1.30
Total valid votes	204,340	100.00

[edit] Councillors

2002 Winnipeg municipal election, Councillor, Elmwood-East Kildonan Wardedit

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
(x)Lillian Thomas	5,971	50.25
Greg Bozyk	2,432	20.47
Ray Brunka	1,931	16.25
Bryan McLeod	1,548	13.03
Total valid votes	11,882	100.00

• Greg Bozyk was a sales representative for a security company at the time of the election. He indicated that he was putting $10,000 of his personal savings into the campaign,^[1] and said that he would support budget increases for police and firefighters.^[2] After his defeat, he said that voters had rejected an opportunity to revitalize their neighbourhood.^[3]

2002 Winnipeg municipal election, City Councillor, Transcona Wardedit

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Russ Wyatt	7,270	61.67
Carol Miles	3,042	25.81
Bob Cook	1,476	12.52
Total valid votes	11,788	100.00

• Carol Miles was the 44-year-old director of finance for the Canadian Food Grains Bank.^[4] She was endorsed by the New Democratic Party and the Winnipeg Labour Council,^[5] and called for community policing in areas with high crime.^[6]
• Bob Cook was a 57-year-old retired policeman and president of the Transcona Golf Club.^[7] His candidacy was supported by Shirley Timm-Rudolph, the ward's outgoing councillor.^[8] Cook called for an increased police presence in the community, and opposed a suggestion that Transcona's police station could be moved to another part of Winnipeg for efficiency purposes.^[9]

[edit] School trustees

River East Transcona School Division

2002 Winnipeg election, Trustee, River East Transcona School Division, Ward One (two members elected)

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
(x)Colleen Carswell	5,041	33.46
(x)Mary Andree	3,136	20.82
Ken Silk	2,856	18.96
Carl Schneiderat	2,846	18.89
Dwayne Charles	1,185	7.87
Total valid votes	15,064	100.00

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

• Mary Andree was a school trustee in Transcona from 1962 to 2006. She served as chair of the Transcona-Springfield School Division on more than one occasion, and was elected to the successor River East Transcona School Division in 2002. Andree opposed the creation of a separate Transcona-Springfield French School Board in 1985, arguing that there were not enough French-language students in the area to justify such an organization.^[10] In 1994-95, she led the Transcona-Springfield Board in requiring school staff to take six days of unpaid leave over the course of the year.^[11] She helped adopt an Equity/Race Relations Policy for the division in 1996,^[12] and supported contracting out bus services in 2000.^[13] In 2005, she supported an unsuccessful attempt to rename Wayoata Elementary School after Terry Fox.^[14]

2002 Winnipeg election, Trustee, River East Transcona School Division, Ward Three

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Bob Fraser	2,275	57.12
David Greskiw	879	22.07
Khalid Mahmood	829	20.81
Total valid votes	3,983	100.00

• Khalid Mahmood is a frequent candidate for public office in Winnipeg. He ran for city council in 1986 with an endorsement from the New Democratic Party, and later ran for a school trustee position in 1995, 1998 and 2002. He has served as president of the Pakistan Canada Cultural Equation of Manitoba.^[15] During celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of Pakistan's independence, he called for better relations between Pakistani and Indian Canadians.^[16] He has also been acting president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association.^[17] In the 2002 election, he called for tougher anti-bullying measures and supported standard tests.^[18] He was elected to the board of the Manitoba Association of Parent Councils for 2004-05 and 2005-06.^[19]

St. James-Assiniboia School Division

2002 Winnipeg election, Trustee, St. James-Assiniboia School Division, Kirkfield-St. Charles Ward (three members elected)

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
(x)Linda Archer	5,561	28.50
Kelly de Groot	4,932	25.27
(x)Bruce Chegus	4,375	22.42
(x)Jan Paseska	2,531	12.97
Deborah Weddall	2,115	10.84
Total valid votes	19,514	100.00

[edit] Subsequent by-elections

[edit] City council

Winnipeg municipal by-election, June 22, 2004, Mayor of Winnipegedit

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Sam Katz	99,015	42.51
Dan Vandal	55,644	23.89
Allan Golden	34,562	14.84
MaryAnn Mihychuk	23,412	10.05
Garth Steek	16,497	7.08
Gordon Kirkby	1,986	0.85
Shirley Timm-Rudolph	801	0.34
Nelson P. Morrison	528	0.23
Natalie Pollock	453	0.19
Total valid votes	232,898	100.00

• Natalie Pollock is a former musician and talk show host, and has campaigned for Mayor of Winnipeg three times. She attended Grant Park and Kelvin high schools in Winnipeg, and audited courses in Political Science at the University of Manitoba.^[20] She and her brother Ron Pollock worked as musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, under the names "Ron and Natalie O'Hara". Dionne Warwick produced one of their songs in 1968, and three of their songs hit Billboard Magazine's easy-listening charts in the early 1970s.^[21] Pollock later ran her father's podiatrist office, and unsuccessfully sought a Liberal Party nomination in the buildup to the 1984 federal election.^[22] In the late 1980s, she and her brother hosted a cable-access television program called "The Pollock and Pollock Gossip Hour".^[23] A report in the Winnipeg Free Press asserts that the program featured "off-beat political interviews" and "often-provocative dancing by Natalie".^[24] The show was canceled in 1990. Pollock subsequently brought forward a sexual discrimination complaint, asserting that she had been let go because the cable station believed viewers were bothered by her protrusive breasts. The cable station denied this, and said that the show was canceled for other reasons including "promoting sexual stereotypes".^[25] The complaint was subsequently dismissed.^[26] Pollock first campaigned for Mayor of Winnipeg in 1992 in the aftermath of this controversy, and finished fifth in a field of seventeen candidates. She ran again in 1995, promising to launch a constitutional challenge to prevent the sale of the Winnipeg Jets hockey team to the United States.^[27] She finished sixth out of seven candidates. In the 2004 by-election, she called for an aboriginal police chief and legal marriage for gays and lesbians, while opposing the privatization of municipal services, anti-smoking regulations, and the city's proposed Waverley West extension.^[28]

Winnipeg municipal by-election, 22 June 2004, Councillor, St. Bonifaceedit

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Franco Magnifico	7,610	38.22
Roland Marcoux	5,798	29.12
Tom Scott	2,003	10.06
Émile Chartier	1,737	8.72
Marcel Boille	1,071	5.38
Murray Cliff	1,040	5.22
Derek W.J. Hay	653	3.28
Total valid votes	19,912	100.00

[edit] Footnotes