As the polls closed and the 2026 municipal elections come to a close, we bring you a comprehensive view of how the Region of Durham has voted – and which incumbent mayor is in and which is out.
How did your municipality fare?
All municipalities have released unofficial voting results (as of midnight last night) which bear some surprises and changes. While others stay the course. Stay tuned as the final results will be updated as more information becomes available.
City of Pickering
The unofficial results in Pickering had Mayor Kevin Ashe in the lead with 36.9 per cent of the vote. The rest of the candidates for mayor’s are as follows:
- Lisa Robinson with 23.3% votes
- Janice Frampton with 14.0% votes
- Doug Cornell with 10.0% votes
- Shaun Rickard with 9.5% votes
- Zargham Rasool with 4.4% votes
- Andrea Wood with 1.8% votes
Town of Ajax
In Ajax 32.4% of electors voted in the ballot for mayor. Incumbent Shaun Collier, and is looking to be replaced by Marilyn Crawford with her earning a whopping 61% of the vote so far. Ashmeed Khan who had thrown his hat in the ring for mayor is currently in second with 20.4% of the vote.
Followed by:
- Richard Hinds with 10.2% of the votes
- Carion Fenn 6.9% of the votes
- Vian Persad 1.5% of the votes
2.3% of voters abstained from voting for mayor.
Town of Whitby
For Mayor of Whitby, incumbent Mayor Elizabeth Roy was going strong with 51.87 % of the votes. Her opposition Chris Leahy was in second place with 43.6 % of the vote. Harshini Rajmohan was sitting in third place with 4.53% of the votes.
The voter turnout in Whitby was sitting at 31.12%.
City of Oshawa
Dan Carter did not run for Mayor in Oshawa. Tito-Dante Marimpietri was leading 38.3%. In second place was Jim Lee with 22.2% of the votes. The rest of the candidates currently stand as follows:
- Derek Giberson with 16.5% of the vote
- Dave Westlake with 13.7% of the vote
- Henry Onwuachu with 4.3% of the vote
- Sherland Chhangur 1.7% of the vote
- Michael Coons 1.6% of the vote
- Jeremy Large 1.4% of the vote
- Joseph Tomlins 0.4% of the vote
Municipality of Clarington
In Clarington Tom Dingwall was in the lead for mayor with 53.1% of the votes while current mayor Adrian Foster has 46.9% of the votes.
The voter turnout for the mayoral ballot was sitting at 34.0% with 2.0% of voters abstaining.
Township of Uxbridge
In Uxbridge, current Mayor Dave Barton was in the lead with 64.2% of the votes. Followed by Ian Giffin with 21.5% and Ted Eng is in third place with 14.3% of the votes.
Township of Scugog
Scugog fared a bit better with 41.3% voter turnout. But current Mayor of Scugog is looking to be Ian McDougall with 3326 votes; replacing incumbent Mayor Wilma Wotten. The rest of the candidates fared as follows:
- Mike Coll received 1971 votes.
- Wilma Wotten received 1673 votes.
- Jack Doak received 1044 votes.
- David Whitfield received 369 votes.
- Charles Deane received 67 votes.
Township of Brock
In Brock the percentages have not been released but Michael Jubb, the current Mayor was in the lead with 3,994 votes. The second candidate Brenda Thyne follows with 399 votes.