As she found out, running a campaign to win a seat on St. Thomas municipal council is hard work. For Tara McCaulley, who had originally hoped to enter municipal politics in 2026, the hard work paid of...

Early numbers suggest voter turnout across the province continued to drop in Monday's municipal elections. Preliminary data from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario suggest turnout was just 3...

In a repeat of the 2018 municipal vote, Joe Preston was successful in his re-election bid Monday night. And while he is reluctant to call it a landslide, Preston with 5,526 votes prevailed over former...

A familiar face is back at the helm in Aylmer. Jack Couckuyt defeated Tom Charlton and Ted McDonald in the race for Mayor. Couckuyt, who was defeated by Mary French in the 2018 Municipal Election, won...

It's a totally new council in Central Elgin. Andrew Sloan has been elected the new Mayor of the municipality. He defeated Dennis Crevits, Tom Marks & Casey Seibenmorgen for the position. Todd Nobl...

Please be aware that results posted on our website are UNOFFICIAL. Tune in to 94.1 myFM after 8pm for live results from municipalities across Elgin County. ST. THOMAS Mayor (1 to be chosen) Jackson, ...

After finishing third behind Joe Preston and Heather Jackson in the 2018 municipal vote, it appeared Steve Wookey's time on council may have run out. However, in March 2020, council was faced with the...

Having retired after 30 years with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and the Ministry of Environment and Energy, Harald Schraeder feels the next logical step would be to run for St. Thoma...

It's a rematch of the 2018 mayoral campaign in St. Thomas with Heather Jackson determined to erase the 542-vote differential as she challenges incumbent Joe Preston, who is seeking his second term as ...

City council's unanimous approval of a move to a paperless municipal vote in 2022 generated plenty of pushback, questions and conspiratorial warnings. So, why not go right to the target of all this di...

Lori Baldwin-Sands is seeking a fourth term on St. Thomas city council. She tells myFM many of the discussions she's had with constituents during the campaign have been about the wise use of public mo...

Jim Herbert is running for re-election to St. Thomas city council. Herbert tells 94.1 myFM he's knocked on 12 hundred doors since the start of the campaign. The Municipal election is set for Monday, O...

Devon Church says his motivation for entering the campaign race in the Oct. 24 municipal vote is, if elected, to propel council toward - quote - "innovation and positive change." The registe...

She's a true veteran on the municipal election campaign trail and Rose Gibson is feeling positive about her sixth run at a seat on St. Thomas city council. Her first campaign was in the 2000 municipal...

When you vote in this month's municipal election, residents are being asked to make health a priority. Southwestern Public Health is encouraging voters to question municipal candidates about their pub...

Note: There is a time change for the Locke's Public School help centre as the time noted on the city website was incorrect. The correct time is now listed. While election day itself is Oct. 24, remote...

He is seeking a third term on city council and for Gary Clarke, as in his two previous campaigns, infrastructure renewal an affordable housing are top-of-mind issues. As he stressed in 2018, "We ...

She stresses you have to go for it. And while Tara McCaulley had hoped to enter municipal politics in 2026, she has moved that schedule up and is seeking a seat on city council in the Oct. 24 municipa...

An abundance of negativity on social media directed at the city and municipal leaders is a motivator for one St. Thomas resident to campaign for a seat on municipal council. Joe Docherty Jr. says the ...

This may be her first run in a municipal election campaign, however Dawn Docker is no stranger to the comings and goings at city hall in St. Thomas. Docker is seeking election to council because she w...

For Gregg McCart, it's all about dreaming big. Last week the life-long St. Thomas resident filed his nomination papers to challenge incumbent mayor Joe Preston in the Oct. 24 municipal vote. Since the...

Calling himself old school, downtown businessman Shawn DeNeire has joined the race for a seat on city council in the Oct. 24 municipal vote. DeNeire was born and raised in St. Thomas and was a Central...

In his second campaign for a seat on city council, Tim Hedden says he learned much from his unsuccessful bid in 2018. He was in a crowded field of 19 candidates, finishing 15th with 1,711 votes. He te...

She is taking a second run for a seat on city council in the fall municipal election. And Petrusia Hontar, project manager at St. Thomas-Elgin Local Immigration Partnership, stresses she doesn't have ...

Few people know the downtown core of St. Thomas better than Earl Taylor. As long-time chairman of the DDB, Taylor now wants to broaden his focus to the city as a whole and that is what has motivated h...

After serving as mayor from 2003 through 2006 and sitting as a councillor for the past dozen years, Jeff Kohler is seeking re-election to council in the October municipal vote. In his 2018 successful ...

In announcing his intention to seek re-election to city council, Steve Peters summed it up as there is a lot of work to be done on a lot of issues. While he represented Elgin-Middlesex-London at Queen...

We have our first declared candidate in this year's municipal election. St. Thomas Mayor Joe Preston announced this morning (Wednesday) he will seek a second term to continue with a "smart growth...