Data

Election records

• Turnout

  Voter turnout in Barrie municipal elections, citywide and by ward, every figure traced to its source: the City's documents, and the Barrie Examiner for the years the City published none.

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• Election results

  Every Barrie election result on record: municipal elections and by-elections since 2003 from the City Clerk's certificates, and federal and provincial elections since 2000 from the official results.

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• Federal & provincial ridings

  The riding names covering Barrie have changed five times since 1997, the two levels of government now use different names for the same seat, and a striking number of council's own names have run for, or come from, Queen's Park and Ottawa. Every race since 2003, with the contribution limits in force at each.

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• Acclamations

  A history of uncontested seats in Barrie municipal elections: the seats where voters had no choice on the ballot.

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Money

• Property taxes

  Barrie's annual property tax increase by year, with dollar amounts for a typical home.

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• Budget

  How Barrie's property tax is divided between city operations, police, county, and partner agencies.

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• Police budget

  The Barrie Police Service budget over time, and its share of the total property tax levy.

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• Capital projects

  Barrie's major capital projects: original approved estimate versus current cost.

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Council record

• Mayoral directions

  All 91 mayoral decisions and directions under the strong-mayor powers, from the City's register and the signed documents, sorted by a stated rule: 62 routine by-law approvals, 24 directions, 5 other decisions.

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City conditions

• Homelessness

  Barrie counted 726 people identifying as homeless on September 28, 2026, up from 632 just before the state of emergency, and zero known encampments on City land on October 6. Every City reading since September 2025, charted.

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• Housing starts

  Building permits, housing starts, and completions in Barrie by year.

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• Population

  Barrie's population, growth rate, projections, and what annexation adds.

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• Natural gas

  Enbridge is Barrie's only gas distributor, and council sets no part of the bill. The typical EGD-zone bill was $999.95 a year from October 2026; the gas price since 2006, the carbon charge and its removal, and who decides what new connections cost.

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• Pollution

  The City's own capital plan calls a trichloroethylene (TCE) plume "the single-largest contributor to the degradation of the City's drinking water aquifers" and budgets $1.125 million to tackle it. What is on the record about Barrie's groundwater, air, spills and industrial releases, and who regulates each.

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• Water quality

  Barrie's drinking water system was rated 100% in its 2024-25 provincial inspection, and the City reported ten adverse water quality incidents in 2025. The record since 2013 — incidents, two boil water events, lead, sodium, PFAS — plus the sewage plant's flow and phosphorus, and Lake Simcoe's phosphorus and chloride.

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• Drug poisoning

  Opioid toxicity deaths in Simcoe Muskoka peaked at 173 in 2021 and were 82 in 2025, above Ontario's rate every year; Barrie's own rate was 33.9 per 100,000 a year in 2022–2024. The consumption site that never opened, the 2024 provincial law, the HART Hub and council's April 2026 motion.

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• Road safety

  Fatal collisions in Barrie by year since 2009 and police-recorded collisions since 2016, from the police annual reports, with the missing years marked. Council's road-safety decisions since 2021, including the Vision Zero request and the speed cameras made permanent, then phased out. What is not published.

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Accountability

• Council votes

  How each member of Barrie council voted on the significant recorded votes of this term.

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• Campaign finance

  Who funded Barrie municipal campaigns and what they spent, 2014 to 2022, and the contribution limits: $1,200 per candidate in 2026, individuals only, $750 with corporate and union money allowed until 2016.

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• Council expenses

  Every itemized line from the mayor and council's quarterly expense reports, 2019–2026.

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• Media index

  A chronological, tagged index of news coverage of the 2026 Barrie municipal election.

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