Liberal Party leadership was not successful and he dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006 to support fellow Liberal Party leadership candidate Bob Rae. Mayor of Vaughan Bevilacqua officially announced in early September 2010 that he was running in the 2010 Vaughan municipal election for the position of mayor. The announcement came shortly after his resignation as Member of Parliament for Vaughan. He defeated controversial incumbent Linda Jackson, the former mayor who was still facing charges from election finance irregularities stemming from her 2006 mayoral victory. Bevilacqua was re-elected mayor of Vaughan in 2014 and again in 2018, both times with greater than seventy percent of the vote. On June 1, 2022 Bevilacqua announced he would not be seeking re-election in the 2022 election and subsequently endorsed Steven Del Duca to succeed him. References External links Official site How'd They Vote?: Maurizio Bevilacqua's voting history and quotes 1960 births Italian emigrants to Canada Liberal Party of Canada MPs Living people Members of the 26th Canadian Ministry Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada People from Sulmona Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates York University alumni Mayors of Vaughan