Mayoral Election

• Larry Di Ianni
  Larry Di Ianni
  Larry Di Ianni served as mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, from 2003 to 2006.-Early life:Di Ianni immigrated to Canada from Italy as a young boy. Di Ianni has previously worked as a high school teacher and principal...
  
  was first elected to Stoney Creek
  Stoney Creek, Ontario
  Stoney Creek is a community in Ontario, Canada.Note: This article will only deal with matters up to its amalgamation with Hamilton.-Geography and population:...
  
   city council
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   in 1982, where he served until the 2000 amalgamation of Stoney Creek into Hamilton. He then served as a Hamilton councillor until November 2003. Di Ianni's major policies included the completion of the Red Hill Creek Expressway, business tax reduction, airport
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   development, improving relations among the amalgamated municipalities, and obtaining additional social service funding from the more senior levels of government.

• David Christopherson
  David Christopherson
  David Christopherson is a Canadian politician. Since 2004, he has represented the riding of Hamilton Centre in the Canadian House of Commons. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Bob Rae...
  
  was elected to Hamilton City Council
  Hamilton City Council
  The Hamilton City Council is the governing body of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.The current council consists of the mayor plus fifteen councillors, one elected from each of the city's wards. The incumbent council was elected in a municipal election on November 13, 2006...
  
   in 1985
  Hamilton municipal election, 1985
  The 1985 Hamilton municipal election was held on November 12, 1988 to elect municipal officials in Hamilton, Ontario. The most high-profile contest was for the mayoral office. Candidates also campaigned for city council and for school trustee positions....
  
  , where he served until 1990
  Ontario general election, 1990
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  , when he was elected to the Ontario Legislature
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   as a New Democrat, where he served, both in government and opposition until 2003. During the NDP's tenure in government from 1990 to 1995, Christopherson held the positions of Minister of Correctional Services and Solicitor-General.

• Dick Wildeman was a 61 year old PhD
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   in pharmacology, and former director of Pharmaceutical Sciences at McMaster University Medical Centre. He led a de-amalgamation slate in the election, attempting to reverse a 2000 decision by the provincial government to amalgamate Hamilton with the neighbouring municipalities of Dundas
  Dundas, Ontario
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  , Ancaster
  Ancaster, Ontario
  Ancaster is a picturesque and historic community located on the Niagara escarpment, within the greater area of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This former town was founded officially in 1793 and was one of the oldest European communities established in present day Ontario along with Windsor...
  
  , Stoney Creek
  Stoney Creek, Ontario
  Stoney Creek is a community in Ontario, Canada.Note: This article will only deal with matters up to its amalgamation with Hamilton.-Geography and population:...
  
  , Flamborough
  Flamborough, Ontario
  Flamborough is a former town near, and a current community in, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada....
  
   and Glanbrook. His vision on how to do so, though, attempted to recreate the version of local government utilized in 1975, where rural communities bought services from the Hamilton municipality and contributed to 80% of the cost. Local media berated his plan, saying there was "a troubling lack of clarity in how Wildeman envisions" demalgamation and that he "doesn't have what it takes to be mayor of the city of Hamilton," because of "huge disconnects in [his] logic."

• Michael Peters was a 36-year-old first-time candidate and financial controller for a Burlington electrical company at the time of the election. His major campaign planks focused on supporting the Red Hill Creek Expressway, keeping the newly amalgamated suburban communities united with Greater Hamilton and slowing urban sprawl by supporting industrial brownfield
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   development. Peters also lamented the flight of university educated residents from the city, and was quoted as saying, "Of my group of high school friends who went off to university, not one of them lives here, other than me."

• Tom Murray was a 50-year-old electrician at Dofasco and former four term councillor for Ward 8. During his tenure on council, his aggressive style proved controversial, but he maintained that this would be a strong quality for Hamilton's Mayor to have. His platform included no-tax increases, revitalization of the waterfront, support for the completion of the Red Hill Creek Expressway and ensuring the city focuses on providing essential services while selling off assets like golf courses and entertainment facilities.

• Michael Baldasaro
  Michael Baldasaro
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  is a perennial candidate and the Leader of the Church of the Universe. He stood for Parliament
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   in 1984 and 2000
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   on a number of different party tickets. In 2003, Baldasaro ran on a platform of monetary rewards for voting, removing City Hall security and legalizing marijuana, prostitution
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   and nudity.

• Matt Jelly was born in Hamilton, and was a 21-year-old visual artist at the time of the election. He did not enter the election to win votes, but to gain experience and draw attention to certain issues. He wanted to give a final decision on amalgamation more time and opposed the Red Hill Creek Expressway, citing the plan's environmental drawbacks, all while humorously ending his campaign speeches with the line, "Don't vote for me, thank you and good night".

Ward One (West Hamilton-McMaster)

• Brian McHattie
  Brian McHattie
  Brian McHattie is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and lecturer who is a Hamilton Municipal Councillor.McHattie was born in Weston, Ontario and, in 1987, moved to Hamilton...
  
  , who had run for Mayor in 1997
  Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 1997
  The 1997 Hamilton municipal election was held on November 10, 1997 to select one Mayor, one regional chairperson, seventeen members of the Hamilton City Council, elected on a two-tier basis, as well as members of both the English and French Public and Catholic School Boards...
  
  , was a 43 year-old environmental consultant at the time of the election, and was noted in his opposition to the Red Hill Creek Expressway.

• Incumbent councillor Marvin Caplan had served on Hamilton City Council for nine years prior, though found his support faltering when he was embroiled in a sexual harassment case and openly supported the completion of the Red Hill Creek Expressway, opposed by a majority of Ward One's residents.

• Michael Puskas was a local lawyer and supporter of the Expressway.