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Welland is a city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada.As of 2021, it had a population of 55,750. [1]The city is in the centre of Niagara and located within a half-hour driving distance to Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, St. Catharines, and Port Colborne.
The 2022 St. Catharines municipal election took place on Monday October 24, 2022 to determine a mayor, regional and city councillors and school trustees in the city of St. Catharines, Ontario. Nominations opened on May 2 and close on August 19.
A new riding, named Niagara Centre was created in 1996 from parts of Erie and Welland—St. Catharines—Thorold ridings. It existed only for the 1997 and 2000 elections. It consisted of the Town of Pelham, the City of Welland, the southern part of the City of St. Catharines, and the part of the City of Thorold lying west of the Welland Canal.
From 1967 to 1975, the southern part of the riding was covered by the Welland South district.. The pre-2018 Welland riding consisted of the cities of Welland, Thorold, Port Colborne, and the part of the City of St. Catharines lying south of a line drawn from the western city limit east along St. Paul Street West, northeast along St. Paul Crescent, east and south along Twelve Mile Creek, and ...
Peter Kormos (October 7, 1952 – March 30, 2013) [1] was a politician in Welland, Ontario, Canada.A lawyer by profession, he was first elected as an Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the Welland constituency in a 1988 provincial by-election.
To date, three former mayors of the city have gone on to represent the city at the provincial or federal levels. Marshall Vaughan and Cindy Forster have represented the city as MPPs in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario , and Allan Pietz has represented the city as an MP in the House of Commons of Canada .
Representative town meeting is used by some larger towns, where voters elect representatives to participate in town meetings, similar to a town council. Some towns use a financial town meeting form where an open town meeting exists with limited jurisdiction to vote solely on financial affairs while the town's legislative powers have been vested ...
The Town is divided into three wards, each of which elects two councillors to sit on Town Council for a period of four years. The Mayor is elected separately, serves on the Council of the Niagara Region, and (since 2006) also serves four years. Mayors of the Town of Pelham: 1970-1976: Harold Black 1976-1978: John Weldon 1978-1988: Eric Bergenstein