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2020 Nova Scotia municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on October 17, 2020.[ 1] municipalities in the province and the council results for Cape Breton and Kings County (for Halifax, see 2020 Halifax municipal election ). Elections were also held for the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial school board.
Mayoral candidate[ 2]
Vote[ 3]
%
David Kogon (X)2,818 70.80
Vaughn Martin
762
19.15
Ed Childs
400
10.05
Should the Town of Amherst fluoridate the municipal water supply?
Option
%
No 2,296 60.81
Yes
1,480
39.19
Mayoral candidate[ 4]
Vote
%
David Mitchell (X)
Acclaimed
Challenging incumbent mayor Cecil Clarke are District 8 councillor Amanda McDougall, businessman Kevin MacEachern, 1990 Sydney mayoral candidate Chris Abbass, former Sydney Steel president John Strasser, and Archie MacKinnon who ran as an Independent candidate in the 2019 Canadian federal election in Sydney—Victoria .[ 5]
Mayoral candidate[ 6]
Vote
%
Amanda McDougall 24,319 47.67
Cecil Clarke (X)20,789
40.75
Archie MacKinnon
3,426
6.72
John Strasser
1,379
2.70
Chris Abbass
708
1.39
Kevin MacEachern
397
0.78
Candidate
Vote
%
District 1 (Sydney Mines )
Gordon MacDonald 1,433 31.81
Danny Laffin
1,142
25.35
Duke Pero
883
19.60
Andrew Doyle
795
17.65
Shara Vickers
252
5.59
District 2 (North Sydney )
Earlene MacMullin (X)3,086 67.91
Jim Dunphy
1,458
32.09
District 3 (The Lakes)
Cyril MacDonald 2,098 56.28
Blue Marshall (X)
1,221
32.75
Glen Murrant
223
5.98
John Whalley
186
4.99
District 4 (Westmount )
Steve Gillespie (X)3,246 68.18
Yianni Harbis
1,272
26.72
Donalda Johnson
243
5.10
District 5 (Downtown Sydney )
Eldon MacDonald (X)1,540 38.55
Shawn Lesnick
746
18.67
Scott MacQuarrie
740
18.52
Nigel Kearns
690
17.27
Christina Joe
279
6.98
District 6 (Sydney Southend)
Glenn Paruch 1,538 33.37
Barbara Beaton
1,351
29.31
Todd Riley
1,277
27.71
Joe Ward
339
7.36
Keith MacDonald
104
2.26
District 7 (Mira River )
Steve Parsons 1,194 29.93
Ivan Doncaster (X)
1,028
25.77
Adam Young
963
24.14
Kevin Hardy
804
20.16
District 8 (Louisbourg )
James Edwards 2,107 57.24
Diana MacKinnon-Furlong
840
22.82
Tracey Hilliard
734
19.94
District 9 (Glace Bay )
Kenny Tracey 2,630 63.19
Steven James MacNeil
1,049
25.20
Clarence Routledge
483
11.60
District 10 (Dominion /Glace Bay North)
Darren Bruckschwaiger (X)3,535 80.82
Matthew Boyd
839
19.18
District 11 (New Waterford )
Darren O'Quinn 1,357 29.18
Johnny Miles
1,135
24.41
Dale Cadden
796
17.12
Arnie Nason
425
9.14
Jeff McNeil
317
6.82
Jennifer Heffernan
271
5.83
Laura Scheller Stanford
256
5.51
Chuck Ogley
93
2.00
District 12 (Whitney Pier )
Lorne Green 1,274 34.20
Kim Sheppard
1,218
32.70
Trevor Allen
533
14.31
Donald Campbell
361
9.69
Gary Borden
339
9.10
Mayoral candidate[ 7]
Vote
%
Christine Blair (X)5,739 65.14
Bob Taylor
3,071
34.86
Cumberland County will be directly electing a mayor for the first time in 2020.[ 8]
Mayoral candidate[ 9]
Vote[ 10]
%
Murray Scott 6,214 79.12
Jason Blanch
1,640
20.88
Candidate[ 11]
Vote
%
District 1
Andre Veinotte 418 47.66
Marshal Hector
337
38.42
Terri Demont
122
13.91
District 2
Floyd Shatford Acclaimed 100.0
District 3
Danielle Barkhouse 623 81.65
Kerry Keddy
140
18.35
District 4
Allen Webber 365 60.73
Steven Millett
236
39.26
District 5
Abdella Assaff 616 72.79
Blake Rafuse
229
27.21
District 6
Tina Connors Acclaimed 100.0
District 7
Sharon Church 487 79.57
Doug Sharpham
125
20.43
Mayoral candidate
Vote
%
Mike Savage 102,690 80.21
Matt Whitman
13,439
10.50
Max Taylor
11,894
9.29
Mayoral candidate[ 12]
Vote
%
Sandra Snow (X)
Acclaimed
Mayoral candidate[ 13]
Vote[ 14]
%
Peter Muttart 6,786 59.34
Shane Buchan
3,224
28.19
Jenn Kang
1,426
12.47
Candidate
Vote
%
District 1
June Granger 1,029 61.91
Dean Tupper
633
38.09
District 2
Lexie Burgess Misner 410 41.46
Logan Morse
308
31.14
Blake Orman
271
27.40
District 3
Dick Killam 687 42.67
Wayne Atwater
657
40.81
Adrian Doherty
266
16.52
District 4
Martha Armstrong (X)594 50.47
Riley Peckford
512
43.50
D. T. Siddhartha Fraser
71
6.03
District 5
Tim Harding 365 31.06
Jeff Robar
349
29.70
Ted Palmer
303
25.79
Justin Dorey
91
7.74
Glen Harnish
67
5.70
District 6
Joel Hirtle 884 63.19
Denise Bonnell
334
23.87
Darrell Pelton
103
7.36
Doug Ralph
78
5.58
District 7
Emily Lutz (X)1,209 68.73
Bob Best (X)
550
31.27
District 8
Jim Winsor (X)926 85.82
Rick Mehta
153
14.18
District 9
Peter Allen (X)
Acclaimed
A by-election was held June 17–24, 2023 in District 8. Results:[ 15]
Candidate
Vote
%
Kevin Davison 301
55.54
Shawn Maxwell
142
26.20
Trina Keddy
99
18.27
Mayoral candidate[ 18]
Vote[ 19]
%
Matt Risser 955 78.08
John McGee
268
21.91
Mayoral candidate[ 20]
Vote[ 21]
%
Nancy Dicks (X)3,328 91.63
Mark Firth
304
8.37
Mayoral candidate
Vote[ 22]
%
Jim Ryan (X)
Acclaimed
Councillors
Melinda MacKenzie (X)890 16.8
Nadine LeBlanc (X)820 15.5
Dan Currie (X)766 14.4
Shawn McNamara (X)685 12.9
Cam Beaton
564
10.6
Jerry Cyr
543
10.2
Eric Daley
460
8.7
Kenny Paquet
395
7.5
Kevin Pettipas
174
3.3
Mayoral candidate[ 23]
Vote[ 24]
%
Darlene Norman 1,336 35.60
Susan Macleod
1,106
29.47
David B. Dagley (X)
845
22.52
Brian G. Fralic
466
12.42
Mayoral candidate[ 25]
Vote[ 26]
%
Bill Mills (X)2,558 62.97
Terry Baillie
1,504
37.03
Prior to the District of West Hant's amalgamation with Windsor on April 1, 2020, the new West Hants Regional Municipality held elections on March 7, 2020. The new municipality will therefore not hold elections in October.
Mayoral results:
Mayoral Candidate[ 27]
Vote
%
Abraham Zebian 4,043 65.48
Jennifer Daniels
1,437
23.28
Jim White
694
11.24
Mayoral Candidate[ 28]
Vote[ 29]
%
Pam Mood (X)1,632 54.97
Charles A. Crosby 1,026
34.56
Angie Romard
224
7.54
Gregory Doucette
87
2.93
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