BarrieVotes.ca 2026 municipal election

Election results

Every Barrie election we have been able to source, from the City Clerk's certificates for municipal elections and from Elections Canada and Elections Ontario's own official results for federal and provincial ones. Every election on this page names its own level — municipal, provincial, or federal — because the three are never on the same ballot and should never be read as one record.

Barrie municipal elections
ElectionRacesCandidates AcclaimedHeadline Winner's shareTurnout
2026 municipalOct 26, 2026 ——— Not yet held — see who is running ——
2022 municipal 18 67 3 Alex Nuttall Mayor 42.7% 30.45%
2020 municipalby-election 1 8 0 Ann-Marie Kungl Ward 3 29.4% 23.8%
2018 municipal 18 62 1 Jeff Lehman Mayor 91.0% 29.65%
2017 municipalappointment 1 32 0 Steve Trotter Ward 6 no vote held no vote held
2016 municipalby-election 1 13 0 Andrew Prince Ward 7 22.5% 17.5%
2014 municipal 18 62 2 Jeff Lehman Mayor 92.3% 31.75%
2012 municipalby-election 1 11 0 Arif Khan Ward 8 32.4% not located
2010 municipal 18 66 0 Jeff Lehman Mayor 39.2% 41.62%§
2006 municipal 18 62 2 Dave Aspden Mayor 50.3% 30.4%§
2003 municipal 18 63 3 Rob Hamilton Mayor 51.6% about 30%§

Winner's share is the headline winner's votes as a share of all votes cast for candidates in that race (the mayoral race in a general election, the ward race in a by-election), the same figure as the Share column on each year's results page. § Not a City figure: the City's documents for 2003, 2006 and 2010 give no electorate. 2010, 41.62%: this site's arithmetic, the 35,020 votes cast in the mayoral race (from the City's certificate) over the 84,145 eligible voters the Clerk gave on election day, as the Barrie Advance and the Barrie Examiner reported it; both papers said "about 40%". 2006, 30.4%: the Barrie Advance's "Just 30.4 per cent of voters cast a ballot for mayor". 2003: the Examiner's "approximately 30%" only.

Sources: 15,600 vote in advance polls, Barrie Advance (simcoe.com), dated October 25, 2010. Original document. Archived copy. Election day, before polls closed: "Barrie clerk Dawn McAlpine said 15,600 votes were cast in advance polls, of 84,145 eligible voters." The Clerk's electorate figure. Emotions, turnouts run high, The Barrie Examiner (Marg. Bruineman). Original document. Archived copy. Election-week report, published on or before October 27, 2010 (the archived copy has no dateline): "More than 35,000 people of an eligible 84,145 voted, representing about 40%", against "the 30% turnout in each of Barrie's last two elections". The reporter's figures, not attributed to the Clerk. Election numbers pathetic in Barrie, Barrie Advance (John Devine), dated November 29, 2006. Original document. Archived copy. Column, 16 days after the vote: turnout "about 30 per cent"; "Turnout ranged from a high of 40.9 per cent in Ward 10 to a low of 20.6 per cent in Ward 6. Just 30.4 per cent of voters cast a ballot for mayor." Not attributed to the Clerk; no electorate or ballot count. Voting early a good idea: official, The Barrie Examiner (Bob Bruton), dated October 20, 2014. Original document. Archived copy. "In 2010, voter turnout in Barrie it was just a tick above 40% — with approximately 35,000 of 84,145 eligible voters casting ballots. In both the 2006 and 2003 city elections, turnout was approximately 30%." The reporter's figures, not attributed to the Clerk. All retrieved October 8, 2026.

Federal and provincial elections

Every federal election covering a Barrie riding since 2004 and every provincial election since 2003, plus one earlier federal exception (2000, kept because it settles an identity question elsewhere on this site). Full candidate-by-candidate results, not just the winner, live on the riding history page; each row below links straight to its own result.

Barrie-area federal and provincial elections
Election Riding Candidates Winner Winner's shareTurnout
2025 federal Barrie South—Innisfil 4 John Brassard 57.8% 67.9%
2025 federal Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 5 Doug Shipley 51.7% 70.7%
2025 provincial Barrie—Innisfil 6 Andrea Khanjin 54.1% 41.30%
2025 provincial Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 6 Doug Downey 49.9% 45.90%
2022 provincial Barrie—Innisfil 8 Andrea Khanjin 50.2% 39.61%
2022 provincial Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 6 Doug Downey 42.1% 46.75%
2021 federal Barrie—Innisfil 4 John Brassard 47.7% 59.2%
2021 federal Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 4 Doug Shipley 45.1% 63.7%
2019 federal Barrie—Innisfil 5 John Brassard 43.8% 62.8%
2019 federal Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 5 Doug Shipley 39.0% 66.5%
2018 provincial Barrie—Innisfil 8 Andrea Khanjin 50.0% 54.27%
2018 provincial Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 8 Doug Downey 44.7% 57.05%
2015 federal Barrie—Innisfil 6 John Brassard 46.4% 64.1%
2015 federal Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte 6 Alex Nuttall 41.7% 66.7%
2014 provincial Barrie 5 Ann Hoggarth 40.7% 49.18%
2011 federal Barrie 7 Patrick Brown 56.7% 59.9%
2011 provincial Barrie 6 Rodney Jackson 40.7% 46.00%
2008 federal Barrie 6 Patrick Brown 52.4% 58.5%
2007 provincial Barrie 8 Aileen Carroll 42.2% 51.95%
2006 federal Barrie 4 Patrick Brown 41.9% 65.4%
2004 federal Barrie 4 Aileen Carroll 42.7% 61.2%
2003 provincial Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford 5 Joe Tascona 51.8% 56.03%
2000 federal Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford 6 Aileen Carroll 48.3% 54.8%

Winner's share is the winning candidate's votes as a share of all votes cast for candidates in that riding, the same figure as the Share column on the riding history page. Turnout is as each agency prints it, and the two count differently: Elections Canada divides total ballots cast (valid and rejected) by the electors on the lists, to one decimal; Elections Ontario divides all ballots, including unmarked and declined ones, by every name on the list after revisions, to two decimals. The ridings also take in parts of Innisfil, Springwater, Oro-Medonte and, before 2004, Bradford.

Sources: Official Voting Results, by general election, Elections Canada. Original document. Table 12 (candidate results by electoral district) for each general election 2004 to 2025 covering a Barrie riding. The specific pages used are listed in the page's own citations. Member service dates were cross-checked against the House of Commons' member records at ourcommons.ca. Retrieved August 17, 2026. Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate, by general election, Elections Ontario. Original document. Official candidate-level results for each Ontario general election 1999 to 2025 covering a Barrie riding. The commonly-repeated 609-vote margin for Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte in 2022 is wrong; this source's own Plurality field reads 296 votes. Retrieved August 17, 2026. Thirty-seventh General Election 2000: Official Voting Results — Barrie-Simcoe-Bradford, Elections Canada, dated November 27, 2000. Original document. Full candidate field for the November 27, 2000 general election in Barrie-Simcoe-Bradford: Aileen Carroll (Lib) 26,309, Rob Hamilton (Alliance) 17,600, Jane MacLaren (PC) 7,588, Keith Lindsay (NDP) 2,385, Ian Woods (Action) 387, Brian K. White (no affiliation) 234. The site's candidate tables otherwise start in 2003; this race is included because this Rob Hamilton is Robert J. Hamilton, mayor from 2003 to 2006. Retrieved August 17, 2026. Official Voting Results, Table 11: Voting results by electoral district, 2000-2025, Elections Canada. Original document. Electors on the lists, total ballots cast (valid plus rejected) and voter turnout for each Barrie riding in each general election 2000 to 2025, one extract per year (research/extracted/elections-canada-<year>-table11-turnout.txt), each naming its own table URL. Valid-ballot totals match the candidate results on this site exactly. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Statistical Summary by Electoral District, 2003-2025, Elections Ontario. Original document. Total number of names (registered plus revised), total voter turnout (valid, rejected, unmarked and declined ballots) and turnout per cent for each Barrie riding in each general election 2003 to 2025, one extract per year (research/extracted/elections-ontario-<year>-statistical-summary-turnout.txt). The 2022 figures are from the reissued report dated October 27, 2022. Retrieved October 8, 2026.

How does turnout compare across municipal, provincial and federal elections?

Municipal (City of Barrie) Provincial (Barrie ridings) Federal (Barrie ridings)

Voter turnout in Barrie by election type, per cent, 2000–2025 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 2000 2004 2007 2010 2014 2018 2021 2025
Voter turnout in Barrie by election type, per cent, 2000–2025 2000 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2014 2015 2018 2019 2021 2022 2025 80%
One point per general election, placed in date order rather than to scale. Municipal: the City's citywide turnout, published only from 2014 (earlier documents record votes but not the size of the electorate; see turnout). The 2006 and 2010 points are not City figures but measure the same thing, the share of eligible voters who voted for mayor. 2006, 30.4%: as the Barrie Advance reported it. 2010, 41.62%: this site's arithmetic, the 35,020 votes cast in the mayoral race (City certificate) over the 84,145 eligible voters the Clerk gave on election day (as reported by the Advance and the Barrie Examiner); the papers themselves said "about 40%". For 2003 the only figure is the Examiner's "approximately 30%", too loose to draw. Provincial and federal: the official turnout where one riding covered Barrie; where the city was split between two ridings (federal from 2015, provincial from 2018) the point is this site's arithmetic, total ballots over total electors across both. The ridings include parts of Innisfil, Springwater, Oro-Medonte and, before 2004, Bradford, and the two agencies count ballots and electors slightly differently (see the note above).

Sources: Official Voting Results, Table 11: Voting results by electoral district, 2000-2025, Elections Canada. Original document. Electors on the lists, total ballots cast (valid plus rejected) and voter turnout for each Barrie riding in each general election 2000 to 2025, one extract per year (research/extracted/elections-canada-<year>-table11-turnout.txt), each naming its own table URL. Valid-ballot totals match the candidate results on this site exactly. Statistical Summary by Electoral District, 2003-2025, Elections Ontario. Original document. Total number of names (registered plus revised), total voter turnout (valid, rejected, unmarked and declined ballots) and turnout per cent for each Barrie riding in each general election 2003 to 2025, one extract per year (research/extracted/elections-ontario-<year>-statistical-summary-turnout.txt). The 2022 figures are from the reissued report dated October 27, 2022. Election numbers pathetic in Barrie, Barrie Advance (John Devine), dated November 29, 2006. Original document. Archived copy. Column, 16 days after the vote: turnout "about 30 per cent"; "Turnout ranged from a high of 40.9 per cent in Ward 10 to a low of 20.6 per cent in Ward 6. Just 30.4 per cent of voters cast a ballot for mayor." Not attributed to the Clerk; no electorate or ballot count. 15,600 vote in advance polls, Barrie Advance (simcoe.com), dated October 25, 2010. Original document. Archived copy. Election day, before polls closed: "Barrie clerk Dawn McAlpine said 15,600 votes were cast in advance polls, of 84,145 eligible voters." The Clerk's electorate figure. Emotions, turnouts run high, The Barrie Examiner (Marg. Bruineman). Original document. Archived copy. Election-week report, published on or before October 27, 2010 (the archived copy has no dateline): "More than 35,000 people of an eligible 84,145 voted, representing about 40%", against "the 30% turnout in each of Barrie's last two elections". The reporter's figures, not attributed to the Clerk. Voting early a good idea: official, The Barrie Examiner (Bob Bruton), dated October 20, 2014. Original document. Archived copy. "In 2010, voter turnout in Barrie it was just a tick above 40% — with approximately 35,000 of 84,145 eligible voters casting ballots. In both the 2006 and 2003 city elections, turnout was approximately 30%." The reporter's figures, not attributed to the Clerk. All retrieved October 8, 2026.

Sources: City of Barrie certificates of election results, each transcribed by hand from the document itself. Still published by the City: 2022. Recovered from the Internet Archive after the City's pages came down: 2003, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020. Each election's own page carries the full document reference and its transcription date.

Reading across the rows takes care. Ward boundaries were redrawn for 2026 and have moved before, so a ward number does not describe the same territory in every year. Trustee areas moved too. And the turnout column mixes sources: only the 2022 certificate states turnout; the other figures come from the City's archived results pages. What we can and cannot say about turnout.

Elections

Earlier than 2003: nothing has been found for 2000 or earlier. Those certificates are not published online and are not in the Internet Archive's captures of the City's site. The 2003 certificate survives only because a 2010 Archive capture caught a City PDF that has since been deleted. If you have an older certificate, please tell us on the corrections page.

Common questions

When was the last Barrie municipal election?

The last general municipal election was October 24, 2022, when Alex Nuttall was elected mayor — the full 2022 results. The next one is October 26, 2026.

Where do these results come from?

Municipal results are transcribed from the City Clerk's certificates of election results; federal and provincial results from Elections Canada and Elections Ontario's official results. Every page names its documents.

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