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1991 Windsor municipal election

The 1991 Windsor municipal election was held in the City of Windsor, Ontario, Canada on November 12, 1991, to elect a mayor, ten councillors, utility commissioners and school trustees.

Results

Mayor

Council

  • Karen Bennett was a civil engineer technologist, and served as chair of the Court of Revisions - Local Improvements in the 1990s. The 1991 election was her first campaign. She campaigned again in the 1994 municipal election under the name "Karen Spencer-Gibbs", calling for property tax reform and infrastructural upgrades.
  • Rick P. Cian holds Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Windsor. He was thirty years old in 1991, and worked as a pension analyst for Chrysler Canada Ltd. He called for a reduction in welfare rolls, and argued that city government should be run as a business.
  • Joseph Theriault was a contract administrator for Tri-Way Machine Ltd., and was active in a Brighton Beach ratepayers organization. He was thirty-five years old in 1991.

Electors in each ward could vote for two candidates for council. Percentages refer to the total number of votes.

Source: Windsor Star newspaper, 13 November 1991.

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