Women Mayors in Ontario

 Recently, I've been up-dating the information on women councillors in Ontario. The following table lists the women elected Mayors in the municipal elections held in October 2022. The list is organized in order of descending population of the municipality. It notes whether the Mayor is an incumbent or newly elected, while new position indicates that the Mayor is new to the position, but was an already incumbent member of council. 

Of the 417 Ontario Councils which held elections, 101 are now led by women. (There maybe a few I've missed, as I have not included Reeves.)

Mayor	Incumbent or New	Municipality	Pop	Acclaimed
Bonnie Crombie	incumbent	Mississauga	717,961
Andrea Horwath	new	Hamilton	569,353
Marianne Meed Ward	incumbent	Burlington	186,948
Elizabeth Roy	new position	Whitby	138,501
Jan Liggett	new position	Cambridge	138,479
Dorothy McCabe	new	Waterloo	121,436
Annette Groves	incumbent	Caledon	76,581
Ann Lawlor	new position	Halton Hills	62,951
Shelley Ann Bentley	new	Haldimand County	49,216
Margaret Quirk	incumbent	Georgina	47,642
Lynn Dollin	incumbent	Innisfil	43,326
Michelle Boileau	new position	Timmins	41,145
Tracey Bailey	new position	Lakeshore	40,410
Virginia Hackson	incumbent	East Gwillimbury	34,637
Crystal Meloche	new position	La Salle	32,721	acclaimed
Lisa Post	new position	Orangeville	30,167
Hilda MacDonald	incumbent	Leamington	29,680
Sandy Shantz	incumbent	Woolwich	26,999
Sandra Easton	incumbent	Lincoln	25,719	acclaimed
Yvonne Hamlin	new position	Collingwood	24,811
Sandie MacDonald	incumbent	Essa	22,970	acclaimed
Kimberley DeYong	new position	Kingsville	22,119
Jennifer Coughlin	new position	Springwater	21,701
Wilma Wotten	new position	Scugog	21,581	acclaimed
Natasha Salonen	new	Wilmot	21,429
Sherry Bondy	new position	Essex	21,216
Nancy Alcock	new position	Huntsville	21,147
Anna DeViet	incumbent	Middlesex Centre	18,928
Sherry Senis	new position	Selwyn	18,653	acclaimed
Deb Gilvesy	new position	Tillsonburg	18,615
Nancy Peckford	incumbent	North Grenville	18,615
Olena Hankivsky	new	Port Hope	17,294
Cheryl Ganann	new position	West Lincoln	15,454
Christa Lowry	incumbent	Mississippi Mills	14,740	acclaimed
Kathleen Thorne Rochon	new	West Nipissing	14,583
Sharron McMillan	new	Thames Centre	13,980
Heidi Lorenz	new position	Gravenhurst	13,157
Rhonda Ehgoetz	incumbent	Perth East	12,595
Sue Carleton	new position	Georgian Bluffs	11,100
Sue Foxton	incumbent	North Dumfries	10,619	acclaimed
Corinna Smith-Gatcke	incumbent	Leeds & Thousand Islands	9,804	acclaimed
Andrea Matrosovs	new position	The Blue Mountains	9,390
Sue Paterson	incumbent	Hanover	7,967
Stacy Wight	new position	Kirkland Lake	7,750
Heather Watson	new position	Douro-Dummer	7,632
Mandy Martin	incumbent	Cramahe	6,509
Judy Brown	new position	Perth	6,469
Lucy Kloosterhuis	incumbent	Oliver Paipoonge	6,035
Cathy Burghart-Jesson	incumbent	Lucan Biddulph	5,680
Ann MacDiarmid	incumbent	Seguin	5,280	acclaimed
Pauline Rochefort		Ear Falls	4,946	acclaimed
Jan O'Neill	incumbent	Marmora & Lake	4,267
Suzanne D'Eon	incumbent	Deep River	4,175
Genevieve Lajoie	new	Casselman	3,960
Jennifer Murphy	incumbent	Bonnechere Valley	3,898
Janet Horner	incumbent	Mulmer	3,571	acclaimed
Sally Hagman	incumbent	Blind River	3,422	acclaimed
Wendy Landry	incumbent	Shuniah	3,247	acclaimed
Anne Giardini	new position	Laurentian Hills	2,885	acclaimed
Carolyn Amyotte	incumbent	North Kawartha	2,877	acclaimed
Giselle Pageau	incumbent	French River	2,828
Melanie Pilon	new position	Wawa	2,705	acclaimed
Liz Danielson	new	Algonquin Highlands	2,588
Narry Paquette	new	Bonfield	2,146
Judy Greenwood-Speers	new	Frontenac Islands	1,930
Bev Hand	incumbent	Point Edward	1,930	acclaimed
Valerie Jahn	new position	Brudnell Lydock and Raglan	1,552
Susan Murphy	new position	Carling	1,491
Suzanne Kukko	new	Nipigon	1,473
Jody Wildman	incumbent	St. Joseph	1,426
Gail Degagne	incumbent	Chisholm	1,312	acclaimed
Ethel Lavalley	new	South Algonquin	1,055
Mita Gibson	new	Cobalt	989
Cheryl Philip	new position	Kearney	974
Lynda Carleton	incumbent	Machar	969
Cheryl Fort	incumbent	Hornepayne	968	acclaimed
Justine Leveque	new	Sundridge	938
Darquise Robinson	incumbent	Red Rock	895	acclaimed
Sheila Maxwell	incumbent	Conmee	798
Beth West	incumbent	Plummer Additional	757
Johanne Baril	incumbent	Val Rita-Harty	757
Deborah Ewald	incumbent	Rainy River	752	acclaimed
Patty Quinn	incumbent	Larder Lake	745	acclaimed
Gale Black	new position	Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	727	acclaimed
Sara D Parkin	new position	Charlton & Dack	686	acclaimed
Karen Von Pickartz	new position	Spanish	670
Robin Jones	incumbent	Westport	634
Lory Palleri	incumbent	Bruce Mines	582
Beverly Nantel	incumbent	Dubreuilville	576	acclaimed
Tara Anderson	new	White River	557
Chantel Despres	incumbent	Harris	530
Pauline Archambault	incumbent	Harley	524	acclaimed
Madeleine Tremblay	incumbent	Fauquier-Strickland	487
Wendy Wright	incumbent	Gillies	441	acclaimed
Kimberly Carson	new position	Limerick	436
Amy Mazey	new	Nairn & Hyman	373
Sharon Gadoury-East	new position	Latchford	355
Colleen Fadden	incumbent	Lake of the Woods	308	acclaimed
Debbi Grills	incumbent	Head Clara & Maria	267
Cathy Miller	new	Pelee	230
Brenda Jones	incumbent	Cockburn Island	16

Overall, women did somewhat better in the 2022 Ontario municipal elections. More women put themselves forward as candidates, 1,931 or 32% of the 6,306 total candidates who ran for 2,860 positions. This was an increase from the 1,808 or 27% that ran in 2018. (At this point I haven't calculated the numbers who ran for mayor and the success rate. No rest for the weary or sabbaticant :-)).

Of the 101 elected, 24 (23.7%) were acclaimed. Acclamations were a feature of the 2022 elections, where a an increasing level of uninterest in local government was demonstrated by people choosing not to compete with lone candidates and a 2% drop in voter turnout compared to 2018.  

ACCLAMATIONS
	2022	2018
Total Number of Councils	32	26
Total number of Councillors	548 (163 women)	477 (147 women)
Total Number of Heads of Council (Mayor, HOC, Reeves)	139 (37 women)	120 (27 women)

(Source: Association of Municipalities Ontario, https://www.amo.on.ca/municipal-election-statistics)