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In some Ontario municipalities, acclamations mean no elections next week
- Kapuskasing will not hold a municipal election next Monday because each elected position has only one candidate.
- Kapuskasing is a northern Ontario town of about 8,100 people where positions including mayor and school board trustee have been acclaimed.
- The Association of Municipalities of Ontario counted 400 acclaimed candidates, down from 548 in 2022.
- Nineteen municipalities, or 5% of those holding elections, were fully acclaimed, and acclamations are more common in smaller communities.
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In some Ontario municipalities, acclamations mean no elections next week – 105.9 The Region
Ontarians in hundreds of municipalities will head to the polls next Monday, but in Kapuskasing it will be a day just like any other. The northern Ontario town of roughly 8,100 is one of several communities essentially bypassing the municipal vote after only one candidate stepped forward for each elected position, from school board trustee to mayor. “I’m so happy,” Kapuskasing Mayor David Plourde, who first won the job in 2018 and ran unopposed i…
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