2010 Durham Region municipal elections
Introduction Elections were held in the Regional Municipality of Durham of Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.
Durham Regional Council Position  ElectedAjax Mayor  Steve ParrishAjax Wards 1 & 2  Shaun CollierAjax Wards 3 & 4  Colleen JordanBrock Mayor  Larry O'ConnorBrock Councillor  Debbie BathClarington Mayor  Adrian FosterClarington Wards 1 & 2  Mary NovakClarington Wards 3 & 4  Willie WooOshawa Mayor  John HenryOshawa Councillor  Nancy Diamond Oshawa Councillor  Nester PidwerbeckiOshawa Councillor  Tito-Dante MarimpietriOshawa Councillor  John NealOshawa Councillor  John R. AkerOshawa Councillor  Amy EnglandOshawa Councillor  Bob ChapmanPickering Mayor  Dave RyanPickering Ward 1  Jennifer O'ConnellPickering Ward 2  Bill McLeanPickering Ward 3  Peter RodriguesScugog Mayor  Chuck MercierScugog Councillor  Bobbie DrewUxbridge Mayor  Gerri Lynn O'Connor Uxbridge Councillor  Jack BallingerWhitby Mayor  Pat Perkins Whitby Councillor  Don MitchellWhitby Councillor  Lorne Earle Coe Whitby Councillor  Joe Drumm
Plebiscite ''Are you in favour of the Council of the Regional Municipality of Durham passing the necessary resolutions and by-laws to change the method of selecting its Chair from appointment by the members of Regional Council to election by general vote of all electors in the Region?'' Option   Vote % Yes  95,377  79.70  No  24,289   20.30
[[Ajax, Ontario|Ajax]] The following are the official results for the Town of Ajax.===Mayor=== Candidate   Vote % '''Steve Parish''' (X)  13,541  79.08 Sherry Clymer  3,582  20.92
Brock Larry O'Connor, the incumbent mayor of Brock, was reelected by a margin of just 13 votes over challenger Terry Clayton, who had previously been mayor of the township from 2000 to 2003.The narrow margin resulted in an ongoing judicial recount battle; the township used a mail-in voting system in 2010, and when ballots which were postmarked before election day but arrived late were counted, O'Connor's margin of victory was reduced to just three votes.O'Connor voluntarily resigned as mayor on March 28, 2011, and the township council subsequently appointed Clayton as the new mayor. Mayoral Candidate  Vote % Larry O'Connor (X)  2,339  50.14 Terry Clayton  2,326  49.86
[[Clarington, Ontario|Clarington]] The following are the official results for the Municipality of Clarington.===Mayor=== Candidate   Vote % '''Adrian Foster'''  6,905  35.51 Jim Abernethy (X)  6,135  31.55 Paul Adams  5,740  29.52 Jeremy Woodcock  664  3.42===Regional Councillors===Two Regional Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards. Candidate Vote % Wards 1 & 2 '''Mary Novak''' (X)  4,113  39.15 Don MacArthur  3,475  33.08 Lynn McCullough  2,917  27.77 Wards 3 & 4 '''Willie Woo'''  5,960  70.73 Gord Robinson  2,354  27.93 Carl Zmozynski  113  1.34===Local Councillors===Four Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards. Candidate Vote % Ward 1 '''Joe Neal'''  2,046  36.73 Oudit Rai  1,216  21.83 Mark Stanisz  733  13.16 Steven Conway  590  10.59 Paul Powers  570  10.23 Karen Hills  301  5.40 Donald Baragar  115  2.06 Ward 2 '''Ron Hooper''' (X)  4,067  82.26 Steve Rowland  511  10.34 Kenneth Finney  366  7.40 Ward 3 '''Corinna Traill'''  1,694  43.69 Tracey Ali  1,012  26.10 Mark Canning  635  16.38 Steve Simic  536  13.83 Ward 4 '''Wendy Partner'''  1,183  27.85 Tim Tufts  925  21.77 Robert Jackson  592  13.94 Cecil Mackesey  581  13.28 Dean Perrin  564  13.28 Chris Brown  325  7.65 Robert Willett  78  1.84
[[Oshawa]]  Mayoral Candidate  Vote % John G. Henry  15,268  46.58 John Gray (X)  8,973  27.37 Louise V. Parkes  3,941  12.02 Cathy Clarke  2,959  9.02 Bill Longworth  1,383  4.21 Eve E. Simson  137   0.41 Dale Jodoin  115  0.35
[[Pickering, Ontario|Pickering]]  Mayoral Candidate   Vote % Dave Ryan (X)  10,361  51.21 Maurice Brenner  8,661  42.80 Ken W. Nash  1,212  5.99
[[Scugog, Ontario|Scugog]]  Mayoral Candidate  Vote % Chuck Mercier  4,690  55.95 Jim McMillen  3,692  44.05
[[Uxbridge, Ontario|Uxbridge]]  Mayoral Candidate  Vote % Gerri Lynn O'Connor  4,293  53.04 Bob Shepherd (X)  3,150  38.92 George Apostolou  651  8.04
[[Whitby, Ontario|Whitby]]  Mayoral Candidate  Vote % Pat Perkins (X)  12,064  47.55  Rocky Varcoe  8,987  35.42 Marcel Brunelle  4,322  17.03
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