In the 2003 municipal elections in Ontario, voters in Ontario, Canada, elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of Ontario's municipalities. Results of election According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, province-wide turnout for municipal elections in 2003 was 40.18% across 408 municipalities. This was down roughly 1%. 574 positions were acclaimed and 28 municipalities reported that their entire councils were acclaimed. In all, there were 5,103 candidates for 2,268 positions. Here are results of mayoral races in selected cities in the civic elections held on November 10, 2003. Ajax Steve Parish 10,302 Kip Van Kempen 4,192 Aurora Tim Jones 5,597 Homer Farsad 3,014 Barrie Rob Hamilton 14,213 Patricia B. Copeland 7,901 Jim Perri 5,020 Jon Vink 395 Belleville Mary-Anne Sills 5,945 Neil R. Ellis 5,707 Doug Parker 3,256 Trueman Tuck 57 Brampton Susan Fennell 34,436 Bill Cowie 19,184 Brant Ron Eddy 4,391 Steve Comisky 3,590 Brantford Mike Hancock 11,668 Chris Friel 11,653 Randy Tooke 721 Burlington Rob MacIsaac (acclaimed) Caledon Marolyn Morrison 4,075 Richard Whitehead 3,855 Gary Wiles 3,635 Anthony Di Somma 1,455 Cambridge Doug Craig 13,005 Fatima Pereira 4,142 Chatham–Kent Diane Gagner 16,737 Austin Wright 6,033 Mary K. Lee 4,817 Richard Erickson 4,202 Larry Brundritt 1,989 William "Bill" Arends 1,472 Clarington John Mutton 16,143 Richard Ward 1,824 Cornwall Phil Poirier 7,271 Brian Sylvester 6,131 Andre Rivette 1,756 Georgina Robert Grossi 6,631 Jeffrey Holec 4,441 Greater Sudbury In a surprisingly active race (Toronto was the only city in the province with more mayoral candidates on the ballot), city councillor David Courtemanche emerged the victor over businessman Paul Marleau to succeed retiring mayor Jim Gordon. Guelph In 2003, Guelph was the only major city in the province where both of the leading candidates for mayor were women. Kate Quarrie 16,158 Karen Farbridge 12,291 Billy Craven 1,156 Kurt Krausewitz 423 John Ustation 347 Halton Hills Rick Bonnette 5,035 John Day 4,022 Kathy Gastle 2,206 Marilyn Serjeantson 1,423 Haldimand Marie Trainer 7,303 Lorraine Bergstrand 6,192 Wilfred Marlowe 1,363 Hamilton See 2003 Hamilton municipal election Larry Di Ianni 70,539 David Christopherson 54,298 Dick Wildeman 4,462 Michael Peters 3,270 Tom Murray 2,881 Michael J. Baldasaro 2,569 Matt Jelly 510 Kawartha Lakes Barbara Kelly 9,748 John R. Macklem 7,189 Patrick J. O’Reilly 6,882 Patrick Dunn 4,585 Joe McGuire 4,335 Kingston Harvey Rosen 23,179 Isabel Turner 4,550 Richard Moller 3,167 Dave Meers 2,958 Jeffrey P. Lowes 453 Joseph R.